Search Results: Titles starting with A from Blum and Rosen Books

New York: Jonathan David, 1962. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 75 pp. Black cloth with gold titles. Former religious school library copy with stamps and marks from removed label on front free endpapers and half-title. A few small white spots on cloth. Otherwise only minor signs of wear, clean. Lincoln's impact on emerging American Jewish community.

New York: Narional Jewish Welfare Board, 1943. Soft cover. Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 331 + 45 pps. Brown wrappers. Parallel Hebrew and English text. Moderate wear to covers and interior, short closed tear to spine, creasing to front cover, clean, securely bound.

London: Longman's Green, and Co., 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. H. A. Aschenhorn. 256 pp. illustrated. 12vo. Blue cloth with black titles and decoration. Light wear to spine ends and board edges, spine sunned, prior owner's name on front endpaper, binding tight, hinges secure, spine square, interior clean. Many duotone plates and smaller illustrations of animals. Frontispiece tissue guard present. Author's first-hand view of wild life in his native Africa, an "intimate personal experience, close and absorbing, and unfailing sympathy and understanding permeate this little book."

New York: Union Carbide, 1971. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 174 pp Green pebbled cloth with gilt titles and decoration Handsome book with tight binding and clean throughout.

Boston: S. W. Tilton & Co., 1881. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 472 pp. Index and Dictionary. Green cloth with gilt titles. Wear to board edges and spine ends, corners bumped, surface scratches to cloth, front hinge weakening a bit, interior age toned but clean, spine square, some soiling to edges of text block, prior owner's name dated 1886 on front end paper..

Bronx NY: Privately Published, 1966. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Jack Hearne. 170 pp. Rust paper over boards in rust slipcase. Illustrated. Lists of Founders and Administration. Minor signs of wear to slipcase and boards, clean, securely bound. Account of the founding and rapid growth of the College in the Bronx created by the Jewish community of Yeshiva University. Many black & white photographs.

Berlin Germany: Schoken Verlag, 1938. 1st Edition . Paperback. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 153 pp. 26 page publisher's catalog, index of authors. Wraps soiled, chipped at edges, flap of rear cover missing, front flap present but partially detached, interior mildly age toned, binding secure. Jewish literary work by Leo Baeck, Ludwig Strauss, Heinrich Heine, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (Die Synagoge der Negerjuden in Newyork) others. Also statistics on Jews in Germany in 1933 and in 1938, on the eve of the Holocaust, and in other areas (Palestine, USA, South America.) This was the last issue of the Almanach published before the publisher was closed by the Nazis.

New York: Scott Stamp & Coin Co., 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 90 pp.index, illustrated. Blue cloth on flexible hard boards with red titles. 8vo. Spine cloth rubbed in one spot from label removal. Former Town of Castine Library copy with "withdrawn" stamps on endpapers and title page. Corners bumped, interior clean, binding tight. Inscribed to prior owner and signed / dated O.W. Barrett, Mar. 31, 1936.

Boston: Dana Estes. Hardcover. Fair. George Cruikshank - Frontis. Boston: Fair. George Cruikshank - Frontis. Boston: Good Plus. George Cruikshank - Frontis. Boston: . Half-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 418; 388 pp. Undated, but probably circa late 1800's. Marbled paper and half-leather boards. Two volumes in one. Indices. Glossary. Illustrated. Frontis is original etching by George Cruikshank with tissue guard in place. Additional plates illustrated by various artists. Waverly Novels Illustrated Sterling Edition. Spine missing except for 2" piece ( laid in ), titles mostly clear with exception of several letters rubbed out by surface wear, rubbing to leather extremities on boards, closed tear to front cover, glue residue on front pastedown most likely from bookplate fallen off, front pastedown has closed tear and recent ownership label, corner tips bent on a few pages, interior agetoned. Hinges strong, spine square, binding tight. Undated,… Read More

New York: Hyperion, 2009. Stated First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Former library book with labels on spine and upper portion of dust jacket, stamps to front blank end paper and top edge, brodart protective cover. Minor signs of use, clean, tight. Author's account of his search to find the truth about a family secret involving an institutionalized aunt.

Albany NY: Argus Company, 1874. Hardcover. Good. 142 pp.index. 8vo. 9 x6 inches. Brown pebbled cloth with gilt titles. Wear to board extremities, 2" area of cloth missing from lower spine, soil spots to front cover, interior clean, uniformly age toned, secure binding. Laid in is a 10-page "Communication" from the Governor John Dix officially transmitting the Comptroller's report to the Assembly "in regard to the sinking funds."

New York: New York: The University Club, 1976, 1976. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 255 pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. One of 3,300 copies published. Green calendar and roster of officers and committee members laid in. Complete list of members and colleges and classes. Club was and still is located at One West 54th Street in New York City.

New York: Dos Idishe Bukh, 1917. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 319 pp. Illustrated. 10.5"x 7". Rust pebbled cloth over boards, gilt titles and decoration. Second Improved Edition. Hinges broken with closed tears to rear hinge paper but covers securely attached, corners rubbed and bumped, small spot on front cover, prior owner's name stamps on end papers, corner tip bends to a few pages, clean, isolated foxing, spine square. Yiddish text. Illustrated with linocut frontispiece and throughout with line drawings featuring portraits of poets.

Lithuania: Zenonas Pilkauskas, 1972. 1st Edition . Unbound. Very Good. Portfolio of 16 loose color offset lithograph photographic posters on heavy paper of buildings in Vilnius, Kaunas, and other locations in Lithuania. Elephant Folio 17" x 12". Most images are nearly full page, a few are smaller. Illustrated paper folder is age darkened, with edge tears; Age toning, light wear, tips bent on lower corners of some posters. Annotated on versos in Lithuanian, Russian, English, German and French.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Rudolph Ruzicka (jacket). 311 pp. Yellow cloth over boards in unclipped dust jacket with original $2.50 price on flap. Stated first edition. Dust jacket front panel detached from spine and rear panels, about 1" paper loss to both spine panel ends, edge wear and chips to front and rear panels, tears, light soiling; covers lightly shelf soiled, interior age toned, spine square, binding and text tight. Author's first novel. Southwest Indians, Navajos, Utah desert.

Aperture, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Eagle, Arnold, Photographer. 60 pp. A crisp book of magnificent black and white photographs by the distinguished documentary photographer of lower east side street scenes and home and synagogue life of observant Jews in the 1930's and 40s. Accompanied by a modern essay by scholar Hertzberg.

Klosterberg: Benno Schwabe & Co, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. Klosterberg: Benno Schwabe & Co, 1945. Very Good. Klosterberg: Benno Schwabe & Co, 1945. Very Good. Klosterberg: Benno Schwabe & Co, 1945. Very Good. Klosterberg: Benno Schwabe & Co, 1945. Book. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 134 pp. (1945) Paper over boards with white title labels on front and spine. Sunning to covers, one corner bumped, interior age toned, tight and clean..

New York, 1898. Unbound. Fine. New York, 1898 Fine 2-page handwritten, signed letter from Jacob A Riis to Mr Clarke, on 6"x9" Mulberry Street letterhead, in which he conveys the following: "Gov Roosevelt writes to me from Oyster Bay 'I wish I could accept, but it is an absolute impossibility I cannot do it' " Riis goes on to explain that the Governor had 200 urgent invitations to speak and "the mere labor of declining, as he had to, was enormous" The remainder of the letter references the Clarkes, a meeting, and New Haven (Ct) as Riis writes "perhaps 'the little dollar' that forms the stories in my new book 'Out of Mulberry Street' came from New Haven." Theodore Roosevelt was New York City Police Commissioner when Riis wrote his landmark "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890, and would accompany Riis on investigations into the slum conditions in New York tenements and streets of the lower east side Roosevelt instituted… Read More

Richmond Hill NY, 1904. No Binding. Very Good. Richmond Hill NY, 1904 Very Good 2 page (front and back) handwritten, signed letter on 6"x85" Beech Street, Richmond Hill, Queens NY letterhead The letter is attached with tape along the left edge to a 9x11" card on which is a photograph of Riis, and handwritten note "Jacob Riis, the great friend of Pres Roosevelt" The letter is clean with mailing folds; 1 or 2 letters at the edge of the reverse side are hidden behind the tape Riis writes to Miss Dertz, thanks her for "kind words" writing "the book was written out of my heart, that is why it appeals to yours Your verses are so beautiful that I am sendng them this morning to Mrs Roosevelt to treasure among the memories that must make their White House stay forever dear to them in spite of the other side of human nature one sees so much of these" Undoubtedly, Riis refers to his book "Theodore Roosevelt the Citizen" published in 1904 Riis and… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" oblong. R. H. Sauter. 63 pp. illustrated. First printing, published October 1920. Brown paper covered boards with gilt titles and silhouette decoration. Small 4to. Small rubbed spot to front cover, paper loss to upper spine affecting first few title letters, wear to edges, corners bumped, soil spot to rear cover, inscription on front illustrated endpaper, binding and hinges tight, vertical crease to endpaper, interior clean except for a couple of small soil spots. Color frontispience, profusely illustrated with blue and black line drawings, some full-page. Part of the Forsyte Saga novels about young Jon Forsyte.