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

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Photographs By Anne Dey. 288 pp. index, illustrated. Stated first. Heavy paper wraps with photograph of Library's interior on front cover. Only minor signs of wear, clean, tightly bound. A history of the landmark building, with many beautiful photographic plates in color and black and white. Also, floor plans, glossary, building statistics, lists of donors. Laid in are 2 donor thank you cards from the Library.

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.

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

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, Inc., 1903. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 190 pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt top edge. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1903 to previous owner. Spine ends a bit soft, unobtrusive pencil marginalia on a few pages, rear endpapers mildly foxed. Contains 25 plates of photographs taken by Riis of New York's lower east side tenements, conditions of which Riis decried and sought to reform. A nice copy of a quite scarce title..

New York: MacMillan Company, 1902. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 465 pp. Blue grained cloth binding in bright condition with gilt lettering and gilt illustrated front cover. First front end paper missing, back hinge starting but secure, clean, tight text block and many photographic plates showing virtually no wear or age. Frontispiece of Theodore Roosevelt, with double tissue guards. Riis, a police officer, sought to reform the slum conditions of New York City's lower east side tenements..

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1900. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 267 pp. Green grained cloth binding with gilt lettering. Spine ends a bit shelf worn, prior owner's name on second free endpaper, small old bookstore label at bottom of rear pastedown. Binding, text block and photographic plates all tight and clean. Frontispiece of Colonel George E. Waring Jr. Riis's "account of the battle with the slum in New York" includes essays on tenement house blight, and the genesis of gangs.

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

London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Illustrated. Green decorated cloth with gilt titles. Corners mildly bumped, light edge wear to boards, darkening to text edges, clean, solid, tight, spine square. Contains eight photographic plates including frontis. At back are advertisements for Making of an American, and the Battle with the Slum, also by Riis.

New York, 1922. No Binding. Very Good. One page on 85"x11" Settlement letterhead with 2 attached small broadsides Handwritten notation beneath date, presumably by recipient: "ans'd 10/11" Mailing folds, mild creasing, one edge sunned Mrs Riis, President of the Settlement, writes to Mr Reid requesting financial contribution, stating "after my husband's death the burden of financing the Settlement was so great that we considered giving the house over to the YMCA" She goes on to say that she actually lived in the Settlement before deciding to "carry on our work" of 25 years, and writes that the Settlement needs $30,000 annually "It is up-hill work but we are making a mighty effort" The Settlement was located at 48 Henry Street in the Lower East Side of New York City It remained there until 1950 when it moved to Queens where it continues to serve youth, the elderly and immigrants Mary Riis' involvement continued until her own death in… Read More

New York: Frederick Ungar. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Very Good. New York: Very Good. New York: Very Good. New York: Frederick Ungar Book. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 179 pp. No date. Green cloth over boards. Darkening, some soiling to covers, small soil spots on front endpapers, interior age toned, binding tight..

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 342 pp. Dust jacket chipped and somewhat worn with library label taped on spine panel, in protective cover. Tape ghosts on front and back boards. Water stain on front board. Spine slightly cocked. Library pocket on rear endpaper. Previous owner's name stamp on front pastedown. The story of the migration and adjustment of Eastern European Jews to the Lower East Side of New York. Contains photographs and illustrations, index..

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 488 pp. Black cloth over boards in worn dust jacket. Ex-Library. Dust jacket present but very worn and torn, original $3.00 price on flap; boards worn at edges, corners bumped, some fading to cloth; a few pencil marks to rear inside cover, hinges a bit shaken, interior age toned with a few isolated soil spots. Preface by Herman Rauschning.

Berkeley California: North Atlantic Books, 1984. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 188 pp. Illustrated wraps. Trade paperback. Covers shelf-soiled, surface creasing, small open tear to front cover fore edge, wear to corners and spine ends, interior clean, binding secure, spine square. Novel of a Jewish family in the Bronx during the 1940's and 50's as seen by a young boy Danny Schwartz.

Bielefeld und Leipzig, Velhagen und Klasing. Hardcover. Good. Good. Good. Good. Bielefeld und Leipzig, Velhagen und Klasing Book. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 686 pp. illustrated. Red cloth with gold titles. Spine cloth partially separated from backing, lone vertical closed tear and small open tear to spine cloth, ends chipped, front hinge cracked but holding well, interior clean, gift inscription dated 1936 to prior owner in pencil on front free endpaper. . <br/><br/> <br/><br/> 0

Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1979. 1st Edition . Paperback. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Stiff orange wraps with black titles. Minor smudge to front cover, otherwise clean and tight. Detailed bibliographic catalog organized by topics which include art, general judaica, history, Moses Montefiore, Soviet Union, just to name a few.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Stated First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Green cloth over boards in unclipped dust jacket with protective clear plastic. Foxing to top edge, otherwise in unused condition. Family saga about a young Jewish boy and his immigrant family in New York's Harlem in the early 20th century.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. Stated first printing. Red, black and white front cover. Covers lightly sunned, bent corners to a few pages, clean, tight binding, spine square. Consists of The Ghost Writer(1979); Zuckerman Unbound (1981); The Anatomy Lesson(1983); Epilogue: The Prague Orgy(1985).

Boston: D. C. Heath & Co, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 157 pp. Brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Light wear to board edges and spine ends, corners mildly bumped, interior agetoned but clean, gilt titles bright, cloth binding clean, text block tight. Extracts containing the principal elements of pedagogy found in the first three 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.