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

Vilnius, Lithuania: VAGA, 1971. 1st Edition . No Binding. Very Good/Fair. Ciurlionis, Mikalojus; B. Barauskas and P. Pukinskas [Photography]. Portfolio of 13 loose color offset 17"x12" lithographic photographs of the artist's "Creation of the World" series of abstract paintings, together with an age-stained 10-page "Notes" staple-bound section in English, Lithuanian, German, and French. Folder is missing back sheet, only the front cover is present with age darkening and edge wear and chips. The 13 posters have only minor signs of wear. Images measure 12"x10".

Berlin: Harz, 1921. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 503 pp. Ivory illustrated cloth, red titles. Front hinge cracked but holdiing, spine backstrip detached but complete, wear to edges, soiling to cloth, interior browned, corners bumped. Collection of East European Jewish ghetto tales. German text.

Paris: Societe Des Editions Louis - Michaud. Paperback. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 148 pp. illustrated. Undated (circa 1915.) Red, black and white illustrated wrappers with cover illustration by Georges Dorival. Contains 9 duotone gravures. Wrappers worn, darkened at extremities, closed tear to lower end of spine paper, text browned, darkened at outer margins, text block separating but not detached from wrapper spine. French text.

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.

New York: Brentano's. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 230 pp. Decorated boards with blue cloth spine, deckled fore edge. Very slight shelf-slant to spine, corners rubbed, otherwise a tight, clean copy published circa 1915, no date printed in book. Contains stories by MacKenzie, Beresford, D.H.Lawrence, Coke, Sadleir, Davey, Jameson,, Keable, Sackville West and Nobbs.

New York: Bloch Publishing Co., 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 242 pp. Brown cloth over boards. Hinges cracked but holding, prior owner's pencil signature on front free endpaper, spine ends and corners mildly bumped, clean.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Seymour Leichman. Stated first edition. Mild soiling and wear to illustrated boards, small damaged spot to front cover, interior clean and bright, binding tight. Profusely illustrated. For older children.

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: Bernard Geis Associates, 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 332 pp. Stated first printing with 5/69 on flap. Dust jacket price-clipped, edgeworn, one short closed tear, nicks, shelf soiling, foxing on reverse, scratches. Shelf soil to edges of binding, otherwise tight and clean cloth covered boards and interior. Collection of stories chosen to reflect the "many faces and moods of the American Jew." Includes works of Stephen Vincent Benet, Ethel Rosenberg, Edna Ferber, Arthur Miller, Leo Rosten, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Charyn, Philip Roth, Isaac Beshevis Singer, et.al..

New York: Musical Courier Company, 1935. 1st Edition . No Binding. Good. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. 30 pp. Illustrated. 16"x11.5". Newspaper format with center middle fold. Front page missing, nicks, chips, wear to edges, some soiling, corner bends, age toned. Full page article "Bach the Immortal" many items about musicians, music schools, concerts; numerous advertisements.

New York: Scribner's, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 222 pp. Dustjacket clean, price present on flap, several small edge chips and a one-inch open tear to edge of rear panel; black cloth binding and interior clean and tight. Author's account of her visit to the land of her forefathers..

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.