Frank Kermode from Berthoff Books

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 141 pages. Reissue, with author's new preface and corrections, of book published 1975. Based on T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures given at U. of Kent, their point of departure is Eliot's 1944 essay "What Is a Classic?" Trade paperback, spine creased, light wear to edges of wraps. Condition is "fair" because ffep… Read more about this item

The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Soft cover. Good. 93 pages. Introduction by Frank Lentricchia. Four lectures given as the Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine. The first is on the "recovery" of Botticelli in the 19th century. Trade paperback, light soil and wear to wraps especially at heel, binding tight, pages bright. Notes, mostly… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 1983. Soft cover. Fair. 229 pages, with index. Collection of essays, including ones on the English novel as of 1907, reading novels, several on interpretation, Appendix "The One Correct Interpretation." Trade paperback with shelf wear, creases to spine, poorly bound so that several pages and sections have come entirely or partially separated from the binding… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good. 108 pages. First Penguin Classics edition. Edited by Frank Kermode, with Introduction, Suggestions for Further Reading, Brief Chronology, Textual Notes, Explanatory Notes. Mass-market paperback with glossy wraps, scant shelf wear, edges and page margins age-toned, faint foxing to top edge. Booksale price in pencil on ffep, underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately… Read more about this item

Chilmark Press, 1962. Hardcover. Good/Good. 234 pages. First American edition. With an introduction by William Phillips. Writers touched on include Paul Valery, Edmund Wilson, Northrop Frye, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Robert Musil, Pasternak, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, J.D. Salinger, Nabokov, William Golding. 8vo, deep yellow cloth with black lettering on spine, scant shelf wear,… Read more about this item

The Modern Library, 2005. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with index, biographical note, frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare, for other full-page b&w illustrations (two portraits of monarchs, London panorama, Swan Theatre. A Modern Library Chronicles Book. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, edges and end papers age-toned with light foxing. Marks and/or notes in light pencil on… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 242 pages, with index. Essays on various topics, including Milton, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, the Bible, Freud. 8vo, navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, light wear to boards, in unclipped DJ with rubbing along spine and flap folds, shelf wear, 1/4" tear at crown. Bookstore price and… Read more about this item