Search Results: Books from Blum and Rosen Books

New York: Viking Press, 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 182 pp. Dustjacket curled and nicked at top edge, mildly sunned with light soiling but bright. A hint of wear and shelf soil to upper edge of binding, otherwise a clean, tight copy in grey and blue cloth covered boards. Bellow's account of his trip to Israel in late 1975, and "a meditation, crackling with wit and controversy, on America's relationship with this embattled country.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1969, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 301 pp. Dust jacket has several small open and closed tears and chips, and edge-wear. Cloth boards a bit rubbed at spine ends. Binding square and tight. Text block tight with foxing to a few pages. An anthology of literature and documents produced by and about East European Jewish writers who lived in the lower east side of New York City in the period 1880-1924: Henry Roth, Lillian Wald, Anzia Yezierska, Morris Raphael Cohen, Abraham Cahan, Henry James, Jacob Riis, and others.

New Brunswick NJ: Boy Scouts of America, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback with illustrated wrappers; illustrated with photographs and drawings; index. Stains to covers, interior clean, no writing / not personalized, spine square, binding secure. Includes an English to Lenni Lenape Word List. 1961 edition.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. William Gottlieb. Unpaginated. First printing "A" issue. Age toned but clean interior with no marks or tears, spine ends worn and chipped, surface scratches to boards, tightly bound. Adorable story of a young boy who throws a party for his puppy Pal to meet other pets. Color photos of children, dogs, rabbit, cat, bird, etc.

New York: Algonquin Publishing Co, 1923. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Maginel Wright Barney. Unpaginated. Narrow strip of paper loss to rear cover and tear to spine, edge wear to boards, interior age toned but clean with just a stray mark or two. Profusely illustrated with color drawings, some full page.

New York: Random House, 1967. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth over boards with gilt titles in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket clean and bright but nicked at edges, with short closed tear to top edge of rear panel. Slight spine lean, name on front free endpaoer, otherwise book covers and interior are clean, binding secure. A novel about a revolt by American Negro slaves in the first half of the 19th century in Virginia.

New York: Random House, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 172 pp. Dark maroon cloth over boards with gold title on spine and gold stamped "United Jewish Appeal Commemorative Edition" at lower end of front cover; Housed in tan unmarked slipcase. Stated first edition. Prior owner's name on front free endpaper. Cloth mildly rubbed, spine titles faded but clear. The Rabbi of a weary congregation in Russia is given the strength to speak out about the plight of Jews in Soviet Russia.

Indianapolis: Perspectives Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. Diana L. Stanley. Indianapolis: Perspectives Press, 1983. Fine/Near Fine. Diana L. Stanley. Indianapolis: Perspectives Press, 1983. Fine/Near Fine. Diana L. Stanley. Indianapolis: Perspectives Press, 1983. Book. Illus. by Diana L. Stanley. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 144 pp. Illustrated. Reading list and Resources section. Price-clipped dustjacket, a couple of nicks, otherwise bright and clean; book in unused condition, crisp and clean. Collection of touching poems by adoptees, birthparents, adoptive parents..

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. 389 pp. publisher's catalogue at back. (c 1890) 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine decoration and titles, gilt top edge, decorated endpapers. Corners rubbed, mild spine slant, foxing to fore edge and some interior pages, light pencil marginalia to some pages, prior owner's name and address on front endpaper, light wear to covers, gilt bright, binding tight.

Harrison New York: Harrison High School, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 68 pp. plus advertisements. Black faux leather over boards. Minor wear to board edges, age toned, student autographs on end papers and in interior, binding secure.

London UK: Chatto and Windus, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Manning de V. Lee. 239 pp. Illustrated.Yellow cloth over boards in illustrated, unclipped, dust jacket with clear protective cover. Mild uniform age toning to interior, edge wear, minor paper loss to upper spine of dust jacket, 1" closed tear to front panel, binding tight, spine square, clean boards and interior except for gift inscription to prior owner on front free endpaper. Illustrated with full page black and white drawings. Authors include Rudyard Kipling and Frank Buck, with others.

New York: Little Brown & Co., 1971. Book Club Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 854 pp. Red cloth over boards in illustrated dust jacket. Short closed tear to lower edge of dust jacket, edge nicks & wear; text fore edge sunned, binding tight, spine square, clean cloth and interior. Contains 12 plays.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1899. First English Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 486 pp. Brown cloth over boards, university library label on spine and bookplate on front paste down. Wear to edges, light soil and scuffing to cloth, rear hinge cracked but secure, interior mildly age-toned, clean, spine square, solid. Translated from the Russian.

New York: Random House, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. George Lazarnick and Mary Ronin. 436 pp. Stated first printing of first edition. Illustrated boards. Color photographs and illustrations. Recipes for family, company, parties, crowds, plus reference tables. Interior clean, some soiling to boards and text edges, tight binding, square spine..

New York: William Frederick Press, 1972. 1st Edition . Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 95 pp. Wraps show light wear; several pages marked with black ink marker, but generally clean with tight binding. Source book for singers listing names, addresses, phone numbers of various services including agents, concert managers, lawyers, photographers, vocal coaches, etc..

New York: Harper & Bros., 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 321 pp. Dust jacket edgeworn with some paper loss at head of spine and top of front panel, flaps taped to pastedowns, bookplate on front pastedown, spine a bit cocked, binding tight, text clean, foxing to endpapers from dust jacket tape. Winner of the 1946 Harper Prize for novels, author's first. From the d.j.: " a monumental psychological study in family relationships, and something of a masterpiece in its ability to evoke the emotional frustrations of Jewish life in America.".

Portland, Maine: Self-Published, 1979. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 124 pp. Second edition revised and updated. List of descendants; Index of Names, 7 plates. Ivory wrappers with black titles. Foxing to text edges and endpapers, wrappers lightly spotted and sunned at extremities, clean, securely bound. Includes photographs, documents.

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 190 pp. Red cloth covered boards, worn at edges, some rubbing to spine, mild spine slant, interior toned, binding tight. Tower Books Edition stated first printing, July 1947. Originally published in 1931 as The Woman Money Buys. A novel about the problems of a gold-digger.

NEW YORK: Simon and Schuster, 1956. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 242 pp. Paper and cloth over boards in unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. Moderate wear, mild shelf soiling to dust jacket with edge nicks; corners bumped, spine square, binding tight, clean.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1924. A Later Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Harry L. Smith. 128 pp. Illustrated cloth over boards, illustrated end papers, 3 color illustrated plates. Cloth soiled, corners bumped and rubbed, edges frayed, front hinge broken, rear hinge cracked, interior uniformly age toned, isolated foxing and smudges. Contains folklore that is "free from the savagery, distressing details, and excessive pathos" of other fairytales. Stories origins are England, India, Hungary, Grimm, Russia, Wales, Ireland, Africa, Andersen, and Scotland.