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Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 256 pages, with index, bibliography, nine maps, 102 b&w illustrations (art reproductions) on plates. Medium octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/4"), dark green cloth, rubbed gilt lettering in red insets on spine, little shelf wear, faded red topstain, page-turning soil and small water spots to fore-edge, foxing to end papers. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date 1963 written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 140 pages.
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The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
by E.J. Hobsbawm
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Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
by E.J. Hobsbawm
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W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1965. Soft cover. Good. 202 pages, with index. Book originally published 1959. Trade paperback, crease in spine, minimal shelf wear, binding tight, foxing to top edge, pages 82-3 brown from previously laid-in newspaper clipping. Name of former owner and date May 1966 written on ffep, small marks in margin of approximately 30 pages.
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Rainer Maria Rilke: The Years in Switzerland
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Univeristy of California Press, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 322 pages, with index of persons, lists of Rilke's works in German and French and his translations, and of German titles of Rilke's works, author's notes. First paperback edition of the English translation published 1964. The book, first published 1936, recounts the last seven years of Rilke's life (1919-1926). Included here is the author's foreword to the third edition (1952). Illustrated with four full-page b&w photos and an ms. facsimile. Trade paperback, light shelf wear, spine sunned, water stain at top of spine, soil to front cover, underscoring on back, foxing to top edge, page-turning soil to others. Names of former owners Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and marginalia on approximately 80 pages; Rilke's last poem written out by her on a blank page near end.
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Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution
by T.J. Clark
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Princeton University Press, 1982. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 208 pages, with prefaces to the first (1972) and this new, second edition; Notes, Select Bibliography, List of Illustrations - of which there are 50, b&w reproductions of art, and Chronology of events in 1848-51. Two appendices in French: an ad for an exhibition of Courbet's work, and a letter he wrote to Champfleury. Trade paperback, reading crease, light wear to corners, light foxing to end papers and front matter pages. Underscoring and marginalia by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 85 pages and inside back cover, evidently dating from when he taught about the literary history of this period. Laid in is a 1992 clipping from the TLS, a review of an edition of the letters of Courbet.
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The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles
by John Jacob Niles
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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 for one of the versions each time, along with multiple verses. All were collected by Niles in Appalachia in the early 20th century. Imperial 8vo (8-3/4" x 11-1/4") green cloth with dark green lettering, dark green end papers have maps of Appalachia in knockout type, wear to crown/heel/corners, edges age-toned, faint foxing to fore-edge and on a few pages. No writing or marks observed. Laid in are two photographs of Niles, one being the trimmed remnant of the front panel of the DJ of this book, the other one evidently clipped from a magazine. Large book, may require shipping surcharge depending on destination.
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Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
by Jane Jacobs
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Random House, 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 237 pages. A study in dialogue form of the ethical basis of public life. Medium 8vo (9-1/2" x 6-1/4"), light beige paper with black decoration over boards, black cloth quarter with gilt lettering, some smudges to boards, a bit of wear and fading at crown and heel, foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with wear to edges, coffee stain and other smudges. Names of former owners on ffep, underscoring and marginalia in pencil by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff throughout.
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The Economy of Cities
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Vintage Books (Random House), 1970. Soft cover. Good. 269 pages (plus list of Vintage books), with index. First Vintage edition (V-584) of book published in hardcover 1969. Eight chapters of economic history, six-part Appendix containing diagrams of various processes: export-generating, import-replacing, patterns of economic activities, and a list of definitions. Mass-market paperback, average wear and age-toning to wraps, page margins age-toned, binding cracked at p. 184-85 and reglued - all pages attached, crease to p. 185. Name of former owner Prof. Ann Berthoff written on ffep, her underscoring and marginalia throughout first three chapters, but few thereafter; outline for imaginary colloquies, e.g. Jacobs - Suzanne K. Langer - Freya Stark - Jane Addams handwritten on rear end papers.
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First Reactions: Critical Essays 1968-1979
by Clive James
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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 wear, flaps have creases, curling, discoloration at edges. Pages bright and unmarked.
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The American Scene together with Three Essays from "Portraits of Places
by Henry James
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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 501 pages. Edited with an Introduction by W.H. Auden. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates at the end. Profiles of New England, New York City, Newport, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Richmond, Charleston (SC), Florida, upstate NY. 8vo, green cloth with faded gilt lettering, boards rubbed and frayed, backstrip separating but reglued, edges and page margins age-toned. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff, date Sept. 1960, note "From the library of Dr [Samuel] Chew" (Bryn Mawr College) written on ffep, WBB's underscoring and notes in pencil throughout (in his small, neat hand, and quite interesting). Laid in 4"x6" postcard reproduction of Childe Hassam's "Boston Commons at Twilight," 1859.
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Italian Hours
by Henry James
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Grove Press, Inc., 1979. Soft cover. Good. 376 pages, with index. First Black Cat edition of collection of Travel Essays first issued 1959, the essays variously dated up to 1909. Venice, Florence, Rome, Siena, Ravenna, Tuscany are subjects. Mass-market paperback, spine creased, corners worn, water stain at top right of front; edges, page margins and especially end papers age-tanned. Underscoring and/or marks in margin of a few pages, notes written on inside back cover.
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Essays on Faith and Morals
by William James
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Meridian Books (The World Publishing Company), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 341 pages, with index and editor's preface. Selected by Ralph Barton Perry (for a 1942 edition; this is a reprint). Mass-market paperback, wraps rubbed and with a few scratches, wear to corners, edges age-toned, p. 236-37 stained tan as from laid-in newspaper clipping. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff written on ffep, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 75 pages and rear end papers.
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The Letters of William James, Volume I
by William James
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The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 348 pages. Volume I only. Letters in Vol. I go up to 1893. Frontispiece portrait photo of William James from 1907, nine other b&w illustrations on plates - portraits, and sketches by James. Edited by his son Henry James. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), midnight blue buckram, title on peeling paper label on spine, top edge faded gilt, other edges rough-cut, wear to corners/heel/crown and along spine, hinges cracked, boards faded and soiled in places, end papers age-toned. Name of former owner and bookstore price written on ffep, text pages unmarked.
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The Souls
by Jane Abdy, Charlotte Gere
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Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984. Soft cover. Near Fine. 192 pages, with index, bibliography, list of dramatis personae, diagram of the Souls circle. Covers the influence of this group as "an elite in English society, 1885-1930", which included influentials such as Lord Curzon and PM Arthur Balfour. Wide trade paperback (7-3/8" x 9-5/8"), practically no visible wear. Errata slip laid in. Name of former owners written on inside front cover, interior pages unmarked.
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Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series, Vol. XXI, No. 3-4
by Jane Flanders, John Morgan, Sidney Sulkin, Jean Foster Hill, Anne Hebert, ed. T. & R. Weiss
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Quarterly Review of Literature, 1980. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 294 pages in five separately numbered sections, beginning with Leaving and Coming Back, the first published collection of poems by Jane Flanders. B&w portrait photo of each poet. Trade paperback-size, falls open where spine is creased at p. 34-35, light shelf wear, faint foxing to edges. Inscribed by Jane Flanders on ffep to her teachers and friends, Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff. Marks next to some poems in the ToC of the Flanders collection. Two more poems by Flanders laid in, on a page cut from a different journal.
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La Littérature Américaine Jusqu'en 1865
by Jean Beranger, Maurice Gonnaud
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Armand Colin, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN FRENCH. 264 pages. Cover 4-3/4" x 6-1/2", small crease near bottom of front cover, soiling of bottom edge. Binding tight. Inscribed by Gonnaud on the title page "Affectueusement a tous deux". Handwritten correction of a typo on p. 56 (possibly by Gonnaud); underscoring by previous owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on one page of the introduction; otherwise text is clean and unmarked.
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The Chinese Cultural Revolution
by Jean Esmein, tr. W.J.F. Jenner
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Anchor Press Doubleday, 1973. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 346 pages, with index and Select Bibliography. A Doubleday, Anchor Original, translated from French by W.J.F. Jenner, French first edition was from Editions du Seuil 1970. Author was a French diplomat, posted in China 1965-68. From the back cover: "This lucid analysis is an attempt to determine whether or not there was, in fact, a 'revolution' in Communist China in the late 1960s. . . This is an exceptional work because it is an eye-witness account, supplemented by research of the unofficial press that flourished in China during the period." Mass-market paperback, moderate creases and soil to wraps, 1/4" tear in front wrap along fore-edge and continuing as smaller tear to front matter pages, 1/4" split at front bottom of spine, edges and end papers soiled and age-toned, binding tight. Underscoring, margin brackets, and or marginal note on approximately six pages, all in Introduction and Chapter 1.
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Baudelaire
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New Directions, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 192 pages. Translated from French by Martin Turnell. Paperback reprint of 1950 edition. Mass-market paperback, wraps soiled, soil to edges especially top, light shelf war, paperclip damage to page 42-43. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Jan. 1969 written on ffep, his underscoring and notes on approximately 16 pages.
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Situations
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Fawcett Crest, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 256 pages. Chapters on Camus, Gide, Sarraute, others. Mass-market paperback, light shelf wear, light foxing to edges, water stain to bottom edge, gap at p. 86-87 where a document on folded paper was inserted for many years, but binding still tight. Former owner's name written on ffep, no marks within.
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The Words
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Fawcett Crest, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 160 pages. Translation of Les Mots, first published in French 1964. Autobiography, formally divided into two parts, "Reading" and "Writing." Mass-market paperback, edges tinted red, shelf wear to wraps includes tiny tear to fore-edge of front cover, foxing visible on back wrap and fore-edge, end papers and page margins tan from age, binding tight. Former owner's name written on ffep, no marks within.
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Dear Judas and Other Poems
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Horace Liveright, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 129 pages. "Second printing, February, 1930" of book first printed Nov. 1929. Three short poems and five longer ones, including the title poem. 8vo, brown paper over boards with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering on front board and (faded) on spine, a few paint splatters especially on spine, light wear to crown and heel, bottom corners bumped, top corners worn down to cardboard, tint to top edge faded, other edges rough-cut and age-toned, as are end papers and page margins, stain from a pressed four-leaf clover on half-title and ffep verso - and the clover is laid in. Gift inscription to a former owner handwritten on ffep, pages otherwise unmarked.
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