Anthologies from Berthoff Books

Island Institute, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 117 pages. Eleven stories and essays by 11 writers, with editor's introduction. Compiled by the editor and the Island Journal staff. Illustrations (b&w woodcuts or line drawings) by Bryan Wiggins. Smallish (5-1/2" x 8-3/4") paperback, white glossy wraps with black lettering, matte two-color dust jacket, coffee stain to… Read more about this item

Indiana University Press, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. 439 pages, with Notes and Sources section. Fourth printing of Midland Giant edition (1974), collection first published 1968. Drawings by Franz Altschuler. The Table of Contents lists the country whose version of each tale is included - all European except for one ancient Egyptian. Trade paperback, spine sunned, wraps lightly… Read more about this item

Oliver Ditson, 1916. Soft cover. Good. 235 pages, with index of song titles, plus 40-page introduction and notes on each song by Sharp. The songs are given with piano accompaniment and their many verses. The songbook with sewn binding opens compfortably to be read by pianist. Soft cover 4to (9-1/2" x 12-1/2"), covers worn/soiled/age-toned with 1-1/2" chip to… Read more about this item

Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Three volumes in one, numbered separately: 322 + 335 + 371 = 1028 pages in all. Introductory note by the author, musical extracts printed throughout the summaries. A biography of each composer is included. Vol. 1 contains Wagner's operas; Vol. 2 - Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Von eber, Ambroise Thomas;… Read more about this item

Henry Holt and Company, 1949. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. BILINGUAL EDITION LATIN-ENGLISH. 342 pages, of which 58 are Biographical Notes on the authors; index of authors and mss., index of first lines for each language. Revised edition of anthology first published 1929, being a companion to Waddell's The Wandering Scholars. Includes her Preface to the… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Company, 1938. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 717 pages, with index. Revised and enlarged edition (first was issued 1914). Prefaces to each edition by Prof. Coker (Yale), who wrote an introduction to the excerpts from each thinker, from Plato and other ancients, St. Augustine, through the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment, to Bentham. 8vo, gray… Read more about this item

Bantam Books, 1961. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 360 pages. Ninth printing. Stories in the original German with translations, critical introductions, notes and vocabulary by the editor. Includes stories by Goethe, Hoffmann, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Kafka, others. Mass-market paperback, wraps soiled, rubbed, worn at corners, 1" tear to top edge of back cover taped from inside,… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press (Geoffrey Cumberlege), 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 330 pages, Selected and with an Introduction by Gwyn Jones. Twenty-six stories by 18 authors, including Dylan Thomas, Richard Hughes, Kate Roberts, Caradoc Evans, written in early to mid-20th century. From the World's Classics series. 18mo (4" x 6"), dark blue cloth with blind-stamped colophon on front… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1076 pages. Chosen and edited by Richard Ellmann. Poets from Anne Bradstreet to Imamu Amiri Baraka. 8vo, wear to heel and bottom corners, a spine a bit concave making foredge uneven, accidental crease to rfep. Pages bright and unmarked. Heavy book will incur additional shipping charge.

Pengiun Books, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 215 pages, with bibliography. Edited with an introduction and glossary by T.J.B. Spencer. Elizabethan-era English translations and adaptations of Italian stories, made by William Painter, John Florio and others, and two new translations by the editor. Introduction includes section "Links with Shakespeare's plays." Mass-market paperback, crease to spine and rubbing along… Read more about this item

Anchor Books, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. 458 pages, with bibliography. Selected and edited by Charles C. Mish. Includes works by Robert Anton, John Reynolds, Bishop Francis Godwin, Aeneas Silvius (Pius II [Piccolomini]), Alexander Hart. Illustrated with reproductions of title pages. Large mass-market paperback (4-1/4" x 7"), crease to spine, minimal shelf wear, foxing and light green stains… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1990. Soft cover. Very Good. 654 pages, with index of authors, index of titles and first lines, sources and notes. Trade paperback, creases to spine where printed image is eroded, crease to front top right corner, price sticker on back cover, edges and page margins age-toned, price written in pencil on ffep, pages unmarked. … Read more about this item

The Modern Library, 1939. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1041 pages, with bibliography. Edited, with an introduction, by Edwin A. Burtt. Writings of Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, John Gay, Bentham, James Mill, John Stuart Mill. 8vo, gray cloth with faded gilt lettering and ML logo in green insets, faded gray topstain, other edges age-toned, brown end papers with ML… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 876 pages, with Index of Authors and Titles, eight double-sided plates with b&w portraits of poets. Edited with an introduction by Oscar Williams. 18mo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4"), dark navy cloth with beige quarter, rubbed gilt lettering in red insets on spine, top edge faded gilt, rear hinge cracked, slightly cocked, boards… Read more about this item

The Macmillan Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 642 pages, with bibliography of books of poetry by all the included authors. April 1928 fifth issue of April 1923 New and Enlarged Edition of anthology originally published 1917. American and British verse. 16mo (5" x 7.5"), dark red buckram with faded gilt lettering on spine and decoration on front… Read more about this item

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 388 pages, with index of authors and index of poems. "Revised and Enlarged Edition" after previous edition issued 1920. Spans Thomas Hardy (b. 1840) through Robert Graves (b. 1895) and a few lesser-known poets born up to 1902. Preface by the editor and a biographical blurb for each poet. 16mo… Read more about this item

D.C. Heath and Company, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 438 pages, with index of titles, index of first lines, and biographical notes on the poets. From Anne Bradstreet to Robert Frost. Trade paperback in taupe wraps with white and black lettering, rubbed along spine and on front cover, crease to front cover at lower right. Binding tight, edges and… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 1159 pages, with index of authors and titles, and index of first lines of poetry. Anthology with dozens of authors excerpted, commentary and background for each. Trade paperback, 2" thick, shelf wear especially to corners of back cover, spine sunned and wrinkled, edges lightly soiled. Pages clean, bright and unmarked.… Read more about this item

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1930 pages, "404 selections by 42 representative writers from John Smith to William Faulkner." Third edition. Cover 6-1/4" x 9-1/4", cloth-bound green with black quarter binding, lettering on spine rubbed. Former examination copy (in 1952), notice thereof pasted to ffep. Tears in second ffep (3") and half-title (1-3/4"), edges slightly… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. 1139 pages, with index of authors and titles, and index of first lines of poetry. Anthology of selections from many authors, each with commentary and background. Trade paperback, 2" thick, spine sunned, minor shelf wear, chip to back cover at spine, edges slightly soiled. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Not… Read more about this item