Essays from Berthoff Books

Taplinger Publishing Company, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. 374 pages plus viii front matter pages, with Bibliography and Index. First U.S. edition. Essays by several historians on controversies over German motives in World War I, with Fritz Fischer's work refuting claims about Germany's war intentions as a touchstone. Mass-market paperback, creases to spine, wraps lightly soiled and shelf-worn,… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1743 pages, plus 80 pages of front matter including an Introductory Survey by Harrold; also, Chronological Outline (1830-1901), biographical chronologies, Selected Bibliography. Excerpts from writings on philosophy, social sciences, science by an array of authors including Carlyle, Macauley, Cardinal Newman, John Stuart Mill, Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson. Text… Read more about this item

University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 303 pages, with Name Index. Essays by literary critic and professor of English Literature on 19th-century and modern poets. 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering, maroon end papers, corners sharp, back board a little bowed, touch of dust soil to top edge. Dust jacket has shelf wear, creases to… Read more about this item

Impress, 2015. Soft cover. Near Fine. 466 pages. Essays on a variety of writers and other topics by the prolific reviewer and professor of English at Amherst. Trade paperback, slightest shelf wear, touch of dust soil to edges, handful of page reference notes written in pencil on rear free end paper. Pages bright and unmarked.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1955. Soft cover. Fair. 358 pages, with index, list of the 95 illustrations (b&w art reproductions). Introduction "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline", followed by seven essays - reprints and revisions. Additional illustrations include line drawings in the text. Mass-market paperback, binding disintegrated and reglued with additional repairs with clear tape (hence some… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 222 pages, with index, credits list that doubles as list of the book's 223 color art reproductions. The novelist's second collection of essays on art, 18 pieces selected by him chiefly from his writings as art critic for the New York Review of BOoks, keyed to exhibitions… Read more about this item

Collier Books (Macmillan), 1973. Soft cover. Good. 216 pages, with index. First Collier Books (paperback) edition of book published the previous year. Excepting the title essay, which was a commencement address, the chapters originated as articles in the New Yorker on a variety of modern art topics, artists, and the art-viewing public. Illustrated throughout with b&w art reproductions.… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages plus six of front matter/foreword. Translated by G. Craig Houston, Foreword by Denise Levertov. Collection first published 1960 as Vol. I of Selected Works. Fifteen essays and one lecture, first published between 1903 and 1938. Small trade paperback (5-1/4" x 8"), light soil to wraps, minimal shelf wear, foxing/dust… Read more about this item

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 192 pages, with Selected Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, Chronology of Important Dates. 14 essays, including by the Russian formalist Tynyanov, Isaiah Berlin, Andrei Sinyavsky. Trade paperback, very light shelf wear, rubbing and smudge to back cover, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

Urizen Books, 1976. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 88 pages, with Selected Bibliography of Criticism of Eugenio Montale's Works Published in Britain and the United States 1936-1969. Collection of short essays by the 1975 Nobel laureate in literature, first assembled in 1972. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, puce end papers, sharp corners and no… Read more about this item

Icon Editions (Harper & Row), 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 266 pages, plus index. Thirteen essays written in the 1970s and 1980s debate the legacy of Modernism, and Abstract Expressionism in particular. Six plates with b&w art reproductions. Keynote essays by Clement Greenberg view the debate about Modernism as rooted in art criticism of the late… Read more about this item

Harper Colophon Books (Harper & Row), 1970. Soft cover. Good. 543 pages, with bibliography. Essays by a variety of writers on the pitfalls of historical research. Trade paperback, remainder mark is a hole punched through front cover and several pages, slight shelf wear and soil, spine sunned/soiled, diagonal crease across back cover, edges/page margins age-tanned. Name of former… Read more about this item

Random House, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 556 pages. First American edition. Essays written by the English critic for the Statesman, the Observer, a dozen other periodicals, and as introductions for books. Sections on Modernism, Classics, Novels, Criticism, and individual contemporary poets. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), beige cloth with copper gilt and black lettering on… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 241 pages. Collected essays and reviews from the author's first ten years as a writer. Medium 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/2"), gray paper over boards with pale gray cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine and front, rough-cut fore-edge, dust soil to top edge, in unclipped DJ with shelf… Read more about this item

Bryn Mawr College Library, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 233 pages. Essays contributed by Bryn Mawr College alumnae including Katharine Hepburn, Hanna Holborn Gray, Emily Vermeule; faculty including Felix Gilbert, Jane Oppenheimer, Mabel Lang; friend of BMC Eudora Welty. Poems by faculty member Richmond Lattimore. 8vo, dark red cloth with gilt lettering in black inset on spine, red… Read more about this item

The University of Michigan Press, 1993. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 230 pages. Poets on Poetry series. Essays touch on 16th-century poetry, Walt Whitman, many 20th-century poets. Trade paperback, almost no visible shelf wear, spine sunned, very faint foxing to fore-edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked.

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 175 pages, with index. Essays assembled as a posthumous collection, by Bernhard Blume and Roy Harvey Pearce. 8vo, black cloth with blind letter B on front board, silver gilt lettering on spine, no visible exterior wear save light dust soil to top edge, extremely faint… Read more about this item

Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1960. Soft cover. Good. 340 pages, with suggestions for further reading. Essays by three and a half dozen authors, from Aristotle to Auden, arranged for use by college students: a section of Theory, a section of "Essays, Narratives and Verse", and a short section offering topics for discussion. Trade paperback, wraps shelf-worn, front cover split from… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1981. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages, with index and bibliography. Introduction by R.G.A. Buxton. Trade paperback, wraps age-toned, foxing to top edge, brown toning streak to top and fore-edges, pages 202-03 stained tan as from laid-in clipping, slight shelf wear, bookstore price in pencil on ffep. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff (author of… Read more about this item

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Soft cover. Good. 183 pages, with chronology of important dates, profiles of contributors, selected bibliography. Edited with an introduction by Northrup Frye. A Spectrum Book, Twentieth Century Views series. Trade paperback, reading crease, wraps rubbed, little shelf wear, faint foxing to top edge. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 50… Read more about this item