Literary History from Berthoff Books

Avon, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 333 pages. First Avon printing of book published the previous year. Public and private biographies of the Bloomsbury set, featuring its major figures: Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Desmond MacCarthy. B&w photo section has portraits of them. Mass-market paperback, light… Read more about this item

Neri Pozza Editore, 1983. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 155 pagine, Indice dei nomi; Le autobiografie: Bibliografia. An Italian Americanist's study of autobiographies written by well-known frontier figures like Davy Crockett and Buffalo Bill, as well as others involved in the westward movement in the 19th century. Upscale mass-market paperback in glossy self-wraps, which… Read more about this item

Studio editorale, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 206 pagine. Traduzione di Marisa e Luciana Bulgheroni. Italian edition of Edmund Wilson's 1931 book Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930. Narrow trade paperback (c. 13 x 18.25 cm) in self-wraps, minimal shelf wear at crown and heel, pages age-tanned but unmarked.… Read more about this item

Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 293 pagine, Indice dei nomi, Premessa, Introduzione. Biblioteca di studi Americani. By the Italian critic and Americanist, chapters on Transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Henry James. Trade paperback, wraps worn and soiled with creases to back cover at bottom, numbers stamped on front. Inscribed… Read more about this item

Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 159 pagine, Indice dei nomi. Trade paperback, rough-cut edges, wraps age-toned and lightly soiled, pages age-tanned and unmarked. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (not stated), who lectured on American literature in Italy under the Fulbright program.

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good. 678 pages, with Index, Glossary, General Introduction; separate introductions to the Old Testament (Alter) and New Testament (Kermode). Essays on each book of the Bible. Large trade paperback (6-1/2" x 10"), shelf wear including small chip at crown, page-turning soil, pages unmarked. Laid in is a… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 313 pages, with index of names, index of works, illustrated with b&w reproductions of portraits on four double-sided plates. English translation of a work issued in German 1957, revised 1977. Trade paperback, creases to spine, foxing to edges, scant shelf wear. Name of former owner Prof. Ann E. Berthoff written… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 316 pages, with Index, chronology ("A Calendar"), bibliography of criticism. Essays by long-time professor at Amherst on the lives and works of Thomas Hardy, Yeats. E.A. Robinson, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams. 8vo, dusty teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine,… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Good. 363 pages. Reprint of book first published 1975, which looks at the literary remembrance and mythologization of World War I. 8vo, blue-green paper over boards with black quarter, gilt lettering on spine, light shelf wear, damp damage (rippling) along bottom of front board and top of text block near the back, foxing… Read more about this item

Bramhall House, 1961. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 369 pages, plus 12 pages front matter, with indexes of titles, first lines, and explanatory material; bibliography; key to guitar chords used in the book; introduction. Decorations by William Bars. Sixty-five ballad topics are explored, some with several versions, and matched with Child ballad numbers. Piano settings and guitar chords are given… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 344 pages, with general index, list of works of art reproduced (arranged by saint). The discussion by Harvard Professor Emeritus of English Kiely of the depiction of saints in Italian Renaissance art is illustrated throughout with color photographs of the art. Ten chapters each deal with one or a few… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 339 pages, with index of parodists, index of the parodied. Excerpts from authors ranging from mediaeval times to J.K. Rowling, with introduction by the editor. Medium 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/4"), black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, flecked gray end papers, faint foxing to top edge, in… Read more about this item

Harper Torchbooks, 1965. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 178 pages, with index, list of the 67 b&w illustrations, prefaces to first edition (1955), second (1961), and this Harper Torchbook edition. Trade paperback, wraps soiled, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to edges/end papers. Underscoring and/or marginalia observed on a few pages (fewer than five) and notes on rfep.… Read more about this item

Stanford Univ Press, 1975. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 369 pages, with index. 1978 printing of 1975 second edition of work first issued 1958. A book of the Soviet period, it looks at the pre-history of "Marxist-Leninist" notions of art, starting with the "radical democrat" writers of the 19th century. Ends with consideration of Soviet-era dissidents -… Read more about this item

Phaidon Publishers Inc, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 361 pages plus 19 pages front matter and Editor's Introduction. Translated and Edited with Notes and Illustrations by Jonathan Mayne. Has Index, Biographical Note, Appendix of translations of lines of verse kept in French in the text, Notes on the Illustrations, which are 68 b&w plates (art reproductions)… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. 367 pages. First Dover edition of Randolph T. Weaver's translation, published 1929 by George G. Harrap & Co., of the 1924 study of Commedia dell' Arte. Subtitled: "The Improvisation - Scenarios - Lives - Attributes - Portraits and Masks of the Illustrious Characters of the Commedia dell' Arte." With index, bibliography,… Read more about this item

Princeton University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 395 pages plus 15 front matter and preface, with index, 13 b&w illustrations (cuts). The third volume of Prof. Frank's five-volume study of Dostoevsky's life and work. Medium 8vo, beige cloth with teal cloth quarter, white and gilt lettering on spine, scant wear, very slightly cocked, light dust soil to… Read more about this item

The Atlantic Monthly Press (Little, Brown), 1962. Soft cover. Very Good. 669 pages, with Index, Bibliographical Survey, two-page map of Chekhov's journey through Siberia to Sakhalin. Trade paperback, wraps age-tanned on and along spine, barely visible creasing to corners, foxing to edges, end papers, and a few pages at beginning and end of the book. Underscoring and/or marginalia… Read more about this item

Carcanet, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 216 pages, with Foreword by author, Introduction by translator. Appendix of translations of Italian passages in the text. Short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature on a wide array of authors including Dante, Boccaccio, Defoe, Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Auden, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, many others. 8vo, forest green… Read more about this item

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN GERMAN. 192 pages. Dritte, vermehrte Auflage. Collection of essays written between 1944 and 1962. Trade paperback, scant shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge, page-turning soil, spine sunned, pages unmarked.