Inscribed Books from Berthoff Books

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

Neri Pozza Editore, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 626 pagine, a cura di Claudio Gorlier. Introduzione (C.G.), Notizie generali sui testi e sugli autori, Nota bibliografica. Those introductory materials comprise 77 additional pages of front matter. Anthology of humoristic writings of the American "west" (Mark Twain, Artemus Ward, many others) and essays in Italian… Read more about this item

Impress, 2015. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 303 pages, with "books consulted" list, illustrated with b&w photos. The author had volunteered at the Hospice of the Fisher Home, in Massachusetts. Trade paperback, a few smudges to exterior, binding tight. Inscribed by the author on title page, to friends. Pages bright and unmarked.

Impress, 2018. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 169 pages, illustrated with many color and b&w photos on plates. The author recounts travel, solo and with her husband, the literary critic and professor of English at Amherst William H. Pritchard, over 60 years. Excerpts from each of their journals create a "he said, she said" (the title… Read more about this item

Rutgers University Press, 2017. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 268 pages, with Index and Bibliography. Published in the Global Perspectives on Aging series. Trade paperback, practically no visible wear, light smudges to top edge, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends, one a former teacher.

Impress, 2011. Soft cover. Near Fine. 344 pages, with index. A dozen essays on 18th-20th century novelists, a dozen on critics and criticism. Trade paperback with self-wraps, no visible wear, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked. Inscribed by author on front free end paper to friends.

Steerforth Press, 2000. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 351 pages, with index, biographical chronology. 8vo, gray paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, very scant shelf wear, a touch of dust soil to top edge, pale foxing to end papers. Unclipped dust jacket has very slight wear to bottom front corner.… Read more about this item

Swallow Press, 2009. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 336 pages plus 15 front-matter pages, with index. Essays and reviews, chiefly concerning 20th-century poets. Trade paperback, very slight shelf wear. Inscribed by author on half-title to friends, underscoring and marginalia by one of then, Prof. Ann E. Berthoff; pages bright.

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

Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 144 pages. Renata Adler's second novel. 8vo, black paper over boards with black cloth quarter, silver gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge rough-cut, practically no wear - just a touch of sunning to extremities and age-toning to the end papers. Unclipped dust jacket is crisp, has stray red… 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

University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 303 pages, with index. The collection, many of the pieces originally published in The Hudson Review, includes essays on Robert Frost, other modern poets, some short book reviews, reflections on teaching. 8vo, dark blue cloth with silver gilt lettering, blue end papers, not visibly worn, touch of dust soil… Read more about this item

Livingston University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 91 pages, with index of first lines. Poems are grouped into four sections: Contraband, Contradance, Contradiction, and Counterpoint. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" in white card wraps with a few faint foxing-like marks on front cover, dust soil to top edge, practically no wear; DJ decorated with lizard wearing a spiffy metallic… Read more about this item

Crane Hill Publlishers, 1992. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. New Enlarged Edition, ~70 unnumbered pages. A whimsical alphabet in reverse, with texts and b&w illustrations (drawings and reproductions) throughout. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" soft cover in self-wraps, pages printed on alternating pink and yellow paper, water spots and rippling to front cover inside and out, reading crease, crease… Read more about this item

2017. Soft cover. Good. 182 pages. Illustrated with photos on 14 plates, some in color. Autobiography by Fran Morris, whose family (descended in part from a branch of the Mendelssohn family) left Germany as refugees from Nazism in 1938 and came to the USA via England and Switzerland. Morris attended Bennington College and became a pianist and music… Read more about this item

Homestead Publishing, 2003. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 268 pages, with index. Revised edition of Star Food, first published 1981. "Choice recipes from two Danish chefs and their award-winning restaurants favored by Hollywood's great - circa 1928 to 1989; [the author's father] Carl Andersen's Chatam in Westwood Village and Kenneth Hansen's Scandia of Hollywood." Line Drawings… Read more about this item

The Willoughby Institute, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 59 pages. Poems by the inimitable Renaissance man from Mobile, Alabama, illustrated throughout with his drawings. Thirty-five poems including "The Quarterback's Lament" and such works of the Reagan era as "Goodbye to Mr. Edwin Meese, or, The Triumph of Dolly Parton". 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" paperback in… Read more about this item

The Willoughby Institute, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 60 unnumbered pages. A whimsical alphabet in reverse, with texts and b&w illustrations (drawings and reproductions) throughout. 5-5/8" x 8-1/2" pamphlet style, stapled in pale blue wraps without visible wear, faded along fold, staples rusted, end papers pink, pages printed on alternating pink and yellow paper,… 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

Stanford University Press, 1978. No Binding. Good. 35 pages plus 5 more of notes. Unbound offprint of chapter from Literature and Society in Imperial Russia, 1800-1914 (ed. Wiliam Mills Todd III). 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" pages stapled at upper left, light vertical crease to the whole, outer pages and edges age-toned with a few spots of foxing, not strongly… Read more about this item