English Literature from Berthoff Books

Arrow Books, 1972. Soft cover. Good. 448 pages. Second Arrow paperback edition of novel first published 1959. Called a "Roger Brook" story after the fictional ero. Set in the Napoleonic Wars, with Wheatley's customary mix of interests: British intelligence, and satanism. Mass-market paperback, wraps shelf-worn with rubbing along spine, remnant of sticker on front cover, edges/page margins age-tanned,… Read more about this item

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 347 pages, with indexes of poems and epitaphs, first lines, persons. Includes Preface to the first edition (1927) and a short one to this version dated 1951. Two portrait plates, one other illustration - facsimiile of the 1681 folio. 8vo, dark blue cloth with rubbed-away gilt… Read more about this item

All'Insegna del pesce d'oro, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION ENGLISH-ITALIAN. 162 pagine. Introduzione di Ada Nisbet. Saggi di Guido Almansi, Vito Amoruso, Marisa Bulgheroni, Alberto Castoldi, Valentina Poggi-Ghigi. Con dodici riproduzioni di acqueporti e uno scritto di Mirando Haz. The Charles Dickens Christmas ghost story A Christmas Tree is given in English and an Italian translation;… Read more about this item

The King's Press, 1930. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Vol. 1 - 298 pages, Vol. II - 301 pages (numbered continuously, ending with 599). Preface by Murry in Vol. 1, Index of First Lines in Vol. 2. Blurb on a rear end paper states that the edition was limited to 765 copies, of which this is… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1973. Soft cover. Good. 934 pages, with Textual Appendix, Bibliography. First edition of the Norton Critical Edition. Criticism includes essays by Coleridge, William Empson. Map of Tom's travels. Trade paperback, wear/corner-creases/curling to wraps. Underscoring and/or marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 60 pages, primarily in the criticism section.

Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1896. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 512 pages, with Editors' Preface, Biographical Introduction, Critical Introduction, Bibliography, Index to Poems, Index to First Lines. "From the Author's Revised Text of 1889, his own selections with additions from his latest works." 12mo (5-1/8" x 7-1/2"), dark red buckram with gilt lettering, gilt and black decoration, top edge… Read more about this item

The Odyssey Press (Bobbs-Merrill), 1973. Soft cover. Good. 1330 pages plus 35 Roman-numeralled pages of front matter, with overall introduction, bibliography of general studies of English poetry in this period, intro and selected bibliography for each poet, index to titles and first lines. Included are works by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Jonson, Herrick, Marvell. Twelve illustrations include portraits… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 447 pages plus index pages: Indexes of Subjects, Names of Persons and Books, Names of Places. 1924 edition edited and with introduction by R.W. Chapman, 1948 reprint. Double-page map, six b&w illustrations (art reproductions and facsimiles) on plates, one of which is detached. 16mo (5" x 7-1/2"), dark blue cloth, rubbed… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1902 pages, with General Introduction by Harry Levin, textual editing by G. Blakemore Evans, introductory essays Shakespeare's Text, Chronology and Sources, Appendices A - Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, B - Records, Documents, and Allusions, C - Annals (chronologies). Contributions from Frank Kermode, Herschel Baker, other scholars. Illustrated with seven color plates,… Read more about this item

Faber and Faber Ltd, 1985. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 170 pages. 16 short stories by the Scottish poet. 8vo, gray paper over boards with black lettering on spine, faint foxing to edges and end papers, bottom corners bumped, minimal other wear. Dust jacket is price-clipped, worn along edges, water stains to back panel, pale foxing to interior.… Read more about this item

The Orion Press, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 103 pages, with List of Plates, Chronology, essay on Blake's illuminated books. Plates include illuminations from Songs of Innocence and of Experience; Visions of the Daughters of Albion; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; prophecies (Europe, America), The Book of Urizen, Milton, Jerusalem. "Plates printed in 6- and 8-color offset on [matte]… Read more about this item

Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 224 pages. Reprint edition of mystery novel by Elizabeth Mackintosh, first published 1953, under her pen name Josephine Tey. Reading crease, rubbing along spine, light shelf wear, very faint foxing to top edge. Pages unmarked except for "53" (for the year of first publicatin) handwritten on the final, "About… Read more about this item

Dover Publications, 2012. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 421 pages. A collection of long out-of-print Victorian-era (both English and American) novels of the supernatural, edited with an Introduction by E.F. Bleiler. The five authors are Mrs. J.H. Riddell, Wilhelm Meinhold, Amelia B. Edwards, Vernon Lee, and Charles Willing Beale. Trade paperback. The "good" condition designation is between… Read more about this item

The Peter Pauper Press, 1944. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 121 pages. A pretty edition of Hamlet, printed "on specially-made Peter Pauper paper," by Peter and Edna Beilenson's publishing company. Printed with some type (scene numbers) red. 8vo (5-1/2" x 9-1/4"), brocade pattern over boards, worn through to cardboard in spots and heavily worn on edges/corners of boards, backstrip entirely… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 366 pages. First printing. Compiled by the Earl of Birkenhead. Introduction to this edition by Philip Larkin. 16mo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"), dusky yellow cloth with gilt lettering in olive insets, pale olive topstain, very faint foxing to fore-edge and pastedowns, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

The Ecco Press, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 101 pages plus 10-page intro. First Ecco Press paperback edition. Published posthumously, a collection of reflections and aphorisms written in 1939 - "an essential work for understanding the evolution of Auden's life and writing" (back cover). Introduction by Edward Mendelson. Mass-market-sized paperback with matte wraps, lightly soiled including by sticker… Read more about this item

Random House, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 85 pages. First printing. Two sections: Thanksgiving for a Habitat; In and Out. 8vo, brown cloth with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering on spine, faded teal topstain, foxing to edges and end papers, tan stains to the latter, light foxing spots on many pages, bookstore sticker attached to ffep, in… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 469 pages, with index of titles and first lines, plus 23-page preface by the editor. First paperback edition. Frontispiece photo of Auden. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, foxing to top edge, end papers and page margins age-toned. Pages unmarked.

Faber and Faber, 1933. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 89 pages. Second edition of Auden's second (and first commercially published) collection under the simple title "Poems"; note by Auden states that some poems printed in the first edition (1930) were omitted in this one and other pre-1931 poems substituted. Includes drama in verse Paid on Both Sides:… 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