American Literature from Berthoff Books

Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1968. Soft cover. Good. 382 pages, with Introduction by R.P. Blackmur. Eighth printing of 1960 edition in the Laurel Henry James series. The novel was first published in 1877. Mass-market paperback, edges stained blue, wraps soiled, reading crease and crease to spine, shelf wear, foxing to edges, pages age-toned. Some orangish highlighting in the… Read more about this item

Signet (New American Library), 1980. Soft cover. Good. 431 pages, with a bibliography of Cooper's works and an Afterword by James Franklin Beard. Mass-market paperback, crease to front cover, soil visible to white back cover, foxing to edges, page margins age-tanned. Binding firm and supple, pages unmarked.

Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. Soft cover. Fair. 320 pages. Selected and arranged with a preface by Willa Cather, this collection was first assembled in 1925, from stories written in the 1880s-1890s. Set in Maine. Mass-market paperback, worn wraps reglued along spine and mended with clear tape. This copy belonged to Prof. Warner Berthoff, who wrote "The Art of… Read more about this item

Random House, 2002. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 121 pages. Collection of poems published while the author was Poet Laureate of the United States. 8vo, charcoal gray and light gray paper over boards, red lettering on spine, scant wear, foxing to top edge, stain on front end papers, in unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear.… Read more about this item

Giulio Einaudi editore, 1977. Soft cover. Near Fine. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 158 + XXII pagine, Nota introduttiva, Nota bio-bibliografica, Bibliografia. "The Awakening è un romanzo americano che quando uscí, nel 1899, fece scandalo. L'America d'oggi l'ha riscoperto, come libro anticipatore d'una tematica femminista: la donna che non s'identifica col ruolo che le è imposto di moglie… Read more about this item

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

Sierra Club - Ballantine Books, 1967. Soft cover. Good. 159 pages. Collection of photographs first published by the Sierra Club in 1962, date of the Preface by Porter, Foreword by Sierra Club Executive Director David Brower, and Introduction by naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch. Selections from Thoreau's writings, matched with color nature photographs by Porter. Trade paperback (6-1/2" x… Read more about this item

Einaudi, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 233 pagine, 15 racconti di Kate Chopin (1851-1904). Scelta dei racconti a cura di Erina Siciliani. Traduzione di Maria Luisa Agosti. Italian translation of stories by Kate Chopin. 8vo, light blue cloth sunned/faded to gray around edges, light smudges to fore-edge. Unclipped dust jacket lightly soiled, practically… Read more about this item

Scribner, 2017. Soft cover. Near Fine. 531 pages. First Scribner paperback edition of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel published 2014. Set during World War II. This copy has practically no visible wear, a little bit of dust-soil, pages unmarked.

HarperEntertainment, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. 140 pages. Illustrations by Pat Steir, Afterword by the author. Book of poems by the singer-songwriter. Trade paperback with glossy self-wraps, light dust soil, minimal shelf wear. Gift inscription on inside of front flap, otherwise unmarked.

Decatur House Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 152 pages. Fourteen short stories by the multi-talented Eugene Walter of Mobile, Alabama, collected and published shortly after his return from 30 years living in Europe. 8vo, plum cloth with gilt lettering on spine, mauve end papers, miminal wear. In unclipped dust jacket with wear along the spine… 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

Fall River Press (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.), 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 790 pages, with biographical notes on the 27 authors. Stories by authors ranging from Washington Irving to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and including Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and others. Medium 8vo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4"),… Read more about this item

Methuen, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 188 pages. Fourteen short stories by the Renaissance man Eugene Walter, born in Mobile, Alabama. "Sparklingly witty stories from the Gulf of Mexico" reads the front cover; most of the stories are set along the U.S. Gulf coast. Mass-market paperback (first UK edition), minimal shelf wear, old price written on ffep, pages… Read more about this item

P.F. Collier, 1892. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 720 pages. Volume Five of Cooper's works in ten volumes contains The Crater; Miles Wallingford; Homeward Bound. Text laid out in columns. Illustrated with wood-engravings, frontispiece protected with tissue. Super 8vo (7" x 10-1/4"), dark blue cloth with very faded and rubbed gilt lettering, blind-stamped colophon on back board, blue-flecked edges, hinges… Read more about this item

P.F. Collier, 1892. Hardcover. Good. 718 pages. Volume Six of Cooper's works in ten volumes contains Home as Found; The Chainbearers; The Redskins. Text laid out in columns. Illustrated with wood-engravings, frontispiece protected with tissue. Super 8vo (7" x 10-1/4"), dark blue cloth with very faded and rubbed gilt lettering, blind-stamped colophon on back board, blue-flecked edges, hinges… Read more about this item

P.F. Collier, 1892. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 725 pages. Volume Nine of Cooper's works in ten volumes contains The Ways of the Hour, Wing and Wing, The Wept of the Wish-Ton-Wish, Precaution. Text laid out in columns. Illustrated with wood-engravings, frontispiece protected with tissue. Super 8vo (7" x 10-1/4"), dark blue cloth with very faded and rubbed gilt… Read more about this item

P.F. Collier, 1892. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 679 pages. Volume Seven of Cooper's works in ten volumes contains Wyandotte (The Hutted Knoll), The Monikins, Jack Tier. Text laid out in columns. Illustrated with wood-engravings, frontispiece protected with tissue. Super 8vo (7" x 10-1/4"), dark blue cloth with spine faded to bleached appearance, very faded and rubbed gilt lettering, blind-stamped… Read more about this item

Faber and Faber, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 80 pages. Seventh impression of collection first published 1950. 12mo, cream boards with light foxing, red letters on front and spine, wear to board edges especially at crown and heel, light tan discoloration to end papers, in clipped DJ with spine sunned with some water-stain spots, sticker remnant on front panel, chips… Read more about this item

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