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

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1960. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Antoine De Saint-Expury. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 91 pp. illustrated. (copyright 1943) Dustjacket spine darkened, edge nicks, original $3.75 price on flap; prior owner's name on front free endpaper, otherwise clean interior and tight binding. First printing of this edition.

Scarsdale New York: Back in The Bronx, 2008. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 176 pp. illustrated. Large format trade paperback. 10.5"x8". Clean, bright in unused condition. "Journey into the past via old photos, postcards, and pictures of the Bronx of former days,..... side by side with contemporary pictures of the same streets and buildings." Cover illustration of Fordham Road, then and now.

New York: Samtur, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 500 pp (Approx). Collection of 18 issues (5 volumes) of the magazine bound in one large softcover book. Clean, minor signs of wear, secure binding, front cover edge curled. Features numerous photographs, classifieds, memorabilia. articles, of the Bronx as it was in the mid-20th century. Many high school related articles and celebrity topics. Jahn's original menu, concourse plaza building, etc. Great gift for a Bronx baby boomer.

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..

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 477 pp. Illustrated with black & white photographs.Blue cloth over boards. Dustjacket edgeworn, price-clipped, flaps once scotch-taped to flaps, now free with tape remnants; casing lightly soiled, clean interior with mild age toning, tight binding, square spine, tape ghosts on pastedowns. Story of the Americanization of immigrant Jews, centered on New York's Lower East Side.

New York: Golden Press, 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Richard Scarry. 48 pp. illustrated. A Golden Book. Illustrated boards, 4to. 12.5 x 10 inches. First "A" printing. Corners rubbed and bumped, 1" paper loss to lower spine, soil spots at text fore edges of several pages, prior owner's neatly printed name at upper left corner of front paste-down, otherwise clean interior, hinges secure, spine square. Cars, trucks, airplanes trains, buses, ships, boats.

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.

Geneva-Paris: Pierre Cailler, 1966. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 195 pp. illustrated. French text. Dustjacket worn, nicked at edges, lightly soiled; off-white buckram clean, binding tight, interior clean with mild sunning at upper margins. Contains 59 plates, including 4 color reproductions which are tipped on to the pages. Also, laid in is a 4-page publisher's brochure with Fehr's Madchen mit Goldfischglas on the cover.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967. First American . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Paper and cloth over boards in unclipped dust jacket with clear protective cover. Hint of wear to board edges, clean, tight, spine square. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs of immigrants and street scenes including by Jacob Riis. Section on the Triangle Fire.

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..

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 Brunswick NJ: National Jewish Committee on Scouting, 1961. Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Booklet. Gold illustrated wrappers in staple binding; illustrated with black and white photographs; refences. Mild isolated shelf soil to rear cover, otherwise clean and securely bound with no signs of use. The Ner Tamid Award is for adherence to the twelfth point of the Scout Law, "A Scout is reverent.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 255 pp., plus 19-page publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth. Limited edition of 1,000. Dampstaining to cloth covers, interior mildly agetoned but clean, binding tight.

Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1983. First English Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 281 pp. Dust jacket price-clipped, tiny numbers inked lightly on spine panel, otherwise nice and bright with virtually no wear; binding tight, shelf soil to top edge, otherwise text clean. Three novellas that explore the lives and psychologies of some of the kibbutz pioneers who came to Palestine at the beginning of World War II.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. William Sharp. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Very Good/very good. William Sharp. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Very Good/very good. William Sharp. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Very Good/very good. William Sharp. 310 pp. illustrated. 8vo. Light green cloth with illustrated pastedown on front cover, blue cloth spine. In brown cardboard slipcase with illustrated pastedown. Light soiling to cloth covers and slipcase, edge wear to slipcase, book interior clean, binding tight. Contains full-page color illustrations and line drawings. Illustrated Junior Library series.  <br/><br/> <br/><br/>

Munich: Hyperion, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. 120 pp. Light brown paper over boards. Old (1930) Prior ownership name and date lightly pencilled to front free endpaper, slight bend to boards, clean, tight interior, square spine.

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: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition, Second Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 242 pp. index, illustrated. Gold and black cloth over boards. Dustjacket unclipped marked "special price until December 1967" with wear, nicks,short tears, to edges. Binding and interior clean and tight. Photographs and descriptions of numerous New York City architecturally important buildings that no longer exist, gleaned from museums, archives, and private collections. Includes a section on endangered landmarks.

New York: Schocken Books, 1972. Second Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 242 pp. index, illustrated. 11"x9" large trade paperback. Mild wear to cover edges, uniform age toning to interior, binding secure, clean. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of New York architecture, numerous buildings including some interiors and endangered landmarks. Cover photo of the old Pennsylvania Station demolished in the 1960's.

New York: The Century Co., 1977. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 284 pp. 11"x9" illustrated paper over boards, cloth spine. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings throughout. No. 106 of limited edition. In unused condition, clean and bright in secure binding. Includes details regarding the Church's 150 history up to year 1977: Pastors, Burial Ground, Missionaries, Gifts, Schools, Ladies' Beneficent Society, Chapel, Families, and much more.