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

White Plains NY: Bernard C. Harris, 2001. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 326 pp Red and white cloth 8vo Map of Scarsdale NY endpapers Minor soil spots to front cover, otherwise clean and tight in unused condition Contents include history of Scarsdale High School, other essays, list of alumni dating from graduating classes of 1917 to 2000 with addresses, phone numbers, occupations, employment Also list of faculty.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1889. 1st Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 768 pp. Cloth and leather over boards. Red speckled text edges. Closed 3" tear to leather at upper joint, wear to board edges, cloth, and leather with small piece of material loss at head of spine. Clean interior, binding secure, spine square. Contains the first published appearance including illustrations of a section of Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives" one year prior to the book's publication in 1890.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 218 pp. Unclipped dust jacket. Stated 2nd printing. In unused condition. Max returns from Buenos Aires to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw after the death of his son in 1906 and embarks on risky romantic escapades. Author won Nobel Prize in Literature.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Stuart Copons. Blue illustrated wrappers. Paper loss to rear cover and last page, gift inscription on first page, wear to cover edges. Compilation of articles and information on many Jewish related topics including Life Cycle, Study, Synagogue and Prayer, the Arts.

New York: Fine Editions Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 71 pp. Dustjacket slightly yellowed, otherwise a clean, tight copy warmly inscribed to prior owner by Marx on 11/18/70. Collection of poems by German born poet from Scarsdale New York..

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 832 pp. Dust jacket a bit yellowed and lightly edge worn, minor soiling to spine panel. Cloth and paper boards slightly faded at spine and top edge. Interior clean and tight in square binding. A novel of a family who in the early 1900's flee Czarist Russia to become one of the first Jewish settlers of Palestine. Levin also wrote Frankie and Johnny, Anne Frank, Compulsion among others.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tibor Gergely. Unpaginated. Illustrated. First printing with "A" on last page. Prior owner's name in two places, clear tape repairs to two pages, some loss of paper to spine with closed tears to covers along parts of rear and front hinges, overall wear and light soiling to covers, interior clean, binding secure. Charming tale of how a boy's letter to his grandma goes through the mail system and finally is delivered.

Albany, New York: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1900. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1,260 pp. 8vo. Dark grey cloth over boards. Cloth soiled, chipped, rubbed, spine sunned, titles faded, interior agetoned, endpapers foxed, clean, tight. Stamp to front free endpaper "Compliments of JNO. McMackin, Commissioner." Sections on organized labor, accidents, employers' liability, accident insurance and legislation in European countries, fold-out chart "Conspectus of Workmen's Compensation Acts of European States," employment and wages 1896-1899.

Wash. D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing, 1915. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Illustrated with many black and white drawings. Red cloth over boards with illustrated front cover. Wear to edges, corners and spine ends mildly bumped, prior owner's name, address in several places, otherwise clean, binding tight. "Published in the Interest of Nation-Wide Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic" contains articles designed to encourage prohibition throughout the United States, with map showing which States have and have not embraced the prohibition movement, and a chronology of the growth of prohibition fro 1808 to 1914.

New York: Querido, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 158 pp. Dust jacket moderately edge worn with short edge tears, nicks, creasing; two small holes in front panel, light soiling, price on flap; green cloth binding clean, interior age toned but clean, spine square, hinges tight. Author warns of the danger of a renaissance of Islam..

Ohio: Saalfield Publishing, 1935. Hardcover. Fair. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs from the movie with Shirley Temple. Covers edgeworn, reasonably clean, spine strip missing, corners bumped, interior browned.

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1867. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 237 pp. Illustrated. Decorative reddish-brown cloth boards nicked, scuffed, rubbed and worn particularly at extremities, spine ends frayed, spine titles faded but legible, corners bumped, some light soiling, foxing to interior, edge tears to several pages. hinges weakened but secure, text tight. Missionary work among "the wretched of a great city..that they may emerge from the deeps of ignorance and sin.{Editor's Preface}." Plate depicting scene outside of mid-19th century Barnum's Museum.

New York: Henry Holt, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 873 pp. index, illustrated. Stated first edition, inscribed to prior owner and signed by author May 11, 1988 on front free end paper. Clean, crisp copy in unused condition. Documents the tide of Jewish emigration beginning in 1881 to the far reaches of the world f rom Eastern Europe..

Ardsley New York, 1976. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. D. Paolucci. Unpaginated, illustrated. 4to. 11x9 x.75 in. Red and ivory illustrated cloth over boards. Compilation of all three volumes published in 1968, 1971, and 1976 respectively bound together in hardcover on occasion of bicentennial. Contains detailed history, photographs, early maps, bios, clubs, schools, churches, personal anecdotes and essays, etc. Laid in are facsimiles of a 17 x 14 inch early map of Ardsley and surrounding areas, and a newspaper article of 1914 on the fire that devastated the village. The book is clean and tight. The separate map has some staining not affecting printed area.

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..

Tel Aviv: Israel Illustrated Book Publishing, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth over boards. Text in English, Hebrew, and French. Illustrated with numerous black & white photographs. Mild age toning to interior. Clean, binding tight.

Lyons, France: Syndicat des Fabricants, 1937. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good/Fair. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Emmanuel Cocard. 15 pp. Folio 12.5"x9.5". 4 illustrated color plates plus full-page duotone portrait of Herriot by M.Buchman. 4-page introduction and summary in English laid in. Ivory wrappers with black titles. Original glassine dust cover has several small open tears and chips and light pencil writing. Covers separated from stapled text block but securely attached at spine; 2 inch closed tear to upper front joint; wrappers and interior clean, color plates by surreal artist Cocard, each representing a type of silk, are bright with all 4 tissue guards present. Herriot, as Mayor of Lyons, had this work published to promote the city's silk industry at the 1939 World's Fair.

New York: Random House, 1972. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 268 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Synchronlogy. Minor edgewear and light soiling to dustjacket, interior mildly toned, gift inscription to prior owner on front endpaper, otherwise clean and tight.

Albany: New York State, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 366 pp. index, illus. Burgundy cloth over boards with gilt titles. Light soiling to rear cover cloth, corners mildly bumped, leaf margins sunned, interior clean and tight. Illustrated with tables, fold-out of department's table of organization, list of commissioners from 1873 onward, patient statistics, financial, etc.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 317 pp. illustrated. 7.5x5 in. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and titles, gilt top edge. Spine mildly faded, wear to spine ends and corners, front hinge cracked, gutter spread at mid-point, uniform light age toning, shelf soil to text edges, cloth lightly soiled, spine square. Contains color frontis and several duotone plates. 11 stories including Sinbad the Sailor, Story of Aladdin, Enchanted Horse.