Search Results: Modern First Editions from Blum and Rosen Books

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: Macaulay Company, 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 315 pp. Red cloth with black titles. Wear to board edges and spine cloth, short tears to spine cloth at both ends, front hinge cracked, one loose leaf (pg 27,28),small black stain, most likely ink, to fore edges of some pages, interior clean with very little toning.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1953. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. John O'hara Cosgrave II (dustjacket). First Printing as Stated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 315 pp. Dustjacket edge worn with paper loss to top and base of spine panel and back panel, but protected in clear brodart. Illustration by Cosgrave is still bright and clean. Base of spine cloth sunned, interior toned, otherwise clean and tight text and binding. Author's first novel, a crime drama set in a small American town.

New York: Macaulay Company, 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 320 pp. Green cloth with gilt titles and front cover decoration. Corners slightly bumped, moderate spine slant, soiling to rear pastedown and text block edges, rear endpaper cut away, binding tight, interior clean. An illustration by E. Lambert for what appears to be an advertisement for the book is pasted to front free endpaper. The author was an O'Henry award winner in 1923 for "Towers of Fame" a short story in McClures magazine. She also wrote for the Liberator, a marxist periodical. Free is a romantic novel set in the American midwest. Scarce title..

Boston: Little, Brown, 1931. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 239 pp. Blue cloth. Spine slightly slanted, light soiling to cloth, interior mildly agetoned, binding tight, clean.. First printing November 1931.

New York: Henry Holt, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 394 pp. Dustjacket moderately worn, soiling to rear panel, edge tears, orig price on flap; boards have white moisture stains along text edges, text agetoned, binding, hinges, text all tight, spine square. Signed and inscribed by Mally on front free endpaper. Author's first novel..

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth over boards in unclipped dust jacket showing original $7.95 price on flap. Blue top edge stain. Stated first edition. Covers sunned at top edges, interior age toned, stains along fore edge of end papers, shelf soil to bottom text edge, mild spine lean; dust jacket has edge nicks and wear and short closed tears to upper spine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 230 pp. Blue cloth with gold star on front. Dustjacket edgeworn, spine edge rubbed, spine ends and corners chipped, price present on flap; binding lightly worn, interior age toned but clean, prior owner's pencil signature dated 9/44 on front end paper. Stalin Prize Novel about struggle of the Russian people against invading German army. Set in a Ukranian village.

New York: Random House, 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 344 pp. Stated first printing. Dustjacket slightly worn with light soiling, nicks and chipping to spine ends, corners rubbed, price present on flap; binding cloth clean, interior mildly age toned, spine very slightly slanted. Novel about the American Navy and the modern marriage..

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.".