Search Results: Authors starting with B from Blum and Rosen Books

Germany: Gerhard Stalling, 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" oblong. 304 pp., index, illustrated. Closed short tears to upper edge of dustjacket spine, small damp stains to lower spine panel, otherwise clean and bright; boards and interior clean, binding tight, slight spine slant, mild age toning. Signed and inscribed to prior owner by author, dated Nov 12, 1960. German text.

Ohio & New York: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Unpaginated [24 pages]. Large format 13"x13" coloring book features color photograph of young Shirley Temple on front cover. Prior owner has neatly colored in the drawings. Covers detached, several pages detached from stapled binding, age toned interior.

Boston: D.C. Heath & Co, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 125 pp. Green cloth with black titles. Wear to board edges and spine ends, corners mildly bumped, pencil marginalia, age toned, binding tight. Play in French with introduction and notes in English. Edited and with an introduction by Alcee Fortier. Heath's Modern Language Series..

Syracuse New York: C. W. Bardeen, 1911. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 126 pp. Index. Illustrated. Red cloth. Darkening to spine, titles rubbed, prior owner's stamp on front pastedown, interior agetoned but clean, binding tight. Illustrated with photographs, maps, diagrams. Chapters on mountains, rivers, lakes, canals, waterfalls, geology, climate, political divisions, railway journeys, relief maps, outline maps.

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 Former Town of Castine Library copy with "withdrawn" stamps on endpapers and title page.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.

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.

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.

New York: Raddock & Brothers, Ltd., 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 197 pp index, illustrated 8vo, grey cloth. Dustjacket unclipped, closed edge tears, creasing and nicks, clean; interior and cloth clean, uniformly toned, binding tight, shelf soiling to top edge Factual story of the rise and growth of "one of American's most militant anti-communist labor organizations

New York: Scribner, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 347 pp. illustrated. Signed "with appreciation" by author on front free endpaper. A clean, crisp copy in unused condition. Photographs of author and family. Author's account of his own family's and the stories of many others who left Europe for the United States following the Holocaust in the years 1947-53, and settled in New York's Upper West Side.

New York: Yiddish Cooperative Book League of the International Workers Order, 1939. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 384 pp. illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth with black titles. Yiddish text. Prior owner's name (Shirley Sirota) and Bronx address on rear cover, her doodling and writing on front free end papers and paste down where she listed many big band era names, both hinges broken but casing/ boards still attached, a few pages loose, interior clean. Illustrated with drawings and photographs.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 83 pp. Index. Dust jacket moderately edgeworn, spine ends nicked, small open tear with creasing to bottom of back panel. Spine a bit cocked, otherwise a sound, clean and tight copy. Three essays: Supreme Court as senior holder of legislative power; revolution in economic organization; redistribution of power..

New York: Charles H. Betts, 1904. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Gold cloth over boards. Index. Cloth moderately soiled and darkened, foxing and shelf soil to text edges. Compiler was a member of the Assembly.

New York: National Jewish Welfare Board, 1942. Soft cover. Very Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. 512 pp. Brown cloth over flexible boards Light soiling to front cover, otherwise clean, corners slightly bumped, binding tight Introductory letter with facsimile signature from President Franklin Roosevelt .

New York: A.C. Bosselman Co., 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Original Wraps. Very Good. Unpaginated (25 pp). 9 x 11 inches oblong. Original brushed paper wrappers illustrated with river view of New York City. Mild creasing and wear to covers, light crease marks on a pages, interior clean and bright. Contains 4x6 postcard size brilliantly colored illustrations of various buildings, streets, and views of Brooklyn Bridge. Publisher was a postcard publisher primarily. The illustrations are printed two to a page. Each illustration is captioned with brief description. Scarce.

Monroe, NY: Privately Printed, 1956. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 320 pp + 67pp index of names, illustrated. 4to (10.75 x 8.5 inches). Original light blue wrappers with illustration of the Church on front cover. Chips to cover edges, transparent tape all along spine holding covers and spine together, closed tears to spine paper, label and blind stamp of prior owner to half-title pages, interior agetoned, mostly clean interior save for a few neatly made pencil and ink notations. Thorough treatment of the Church's history with wealth of genealogical information on officers, members in 1951, list of baptisms, marriages, Honor Roll WWI, trustees, Centennial year 1876 records, and more. A number of full-page reproduced photographs show church ministers, children, church itself. Some pages are bound in upside-down.

New York: Valentine's Manual, Inc, 1921. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Full-Leather. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Index, illustrated. Burgundy leather over boards with gilt decoration and titles. raised bands on spine, gilt top edge, marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to leather at edges, a few closed tears to pages in illustration list section, otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy with all color and black and white plates, and inserted fold-out illustrations present.

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.

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..