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

London: Collins, 1969. First British Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Laurent De Brunhoff. Unpaginated, illustrated. First printing of British edition. Dustjacket worn, long closed tears, chips, nicks, edge creases, some soiling, price-clipped; mild foxing to endpapers, very slight mustiness, soiling to text edges, light soiling to covers, interior clean, binding tight. Babar is invited to the United States by the President.

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.

White Plains New York: B. Altman & Co, 1960. Soft cover. Good. Unpaginated ( approximately 20 one-sided pages), illustrated. Blue clasp folder soiled, creased, closed tears to top edge; interior generally clean with several thumb prints. Printed recipes contributed by employees of the White Plains NY B. Altman with their names and departments.

London: Cassell and Co., 1920. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 152 pp, index, illustrated 12mo Blue cloth with pictorial onlay to front cover Wear to spine ends, spine sunned, corners lightly bumped, prior owner's name dated 1920 on front end paper, interior uniformly age toned, clean, tight Illustrated with 151 drawings

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..

Jersey City, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 377 pp. index, illustrated. Slight ripple to front panel of dustjacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy in unused condition. Nathan Baruch and others who led the relief efforts for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust..

New York: Arlington House Publisher, 1979. A Later Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 192 pp.index, illustrated. 11"x9". Light wear to dustjacket with archival repair to closed 2" tear at top edge; covers and interior clean, binding secure, spine square. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos of scenes throughout the Bronx, annotated with brief descriptions.

East Rutherford New Jersey: Commerce Graphics, 1988. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Berenice Abbott. Unpaginated. Grey wrappers with black title. Clean, tissue guards present, in unused condition. Collection of 62 black and white photographs of New York City taken by renowned photographer Berenice Abbott in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Introductory essay by Finley.

New York: Robert Carter Bros., 1874. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. New York: Robert Carter Bros., 1874. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 134 pp. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard. Red cloth binding with gilt and black decoration and titles. Front cover partially detached, cloth darkened, some soil, corners worn, spine ends chipped, spine cloth separated at front edge; rear hinge starting; first signature loose; old contemporaneous presentation bookplate dated November 29th, 1874 to a student at First Presbyterian Church Sabbath School in Albany NY on front paste down, interior clean but browned. Scarce title.

New York: Health Education Council, 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 182p. Index. Illus. Stated first edition. A New York Academy of Medicine Book. Grey cloth. Minor corner bumps to boards, several pages have corner tip bends, otherwise a very tight, clean copy. Illustrated with tables, charts, graphs..

London: Macmillan and Co. , 1905. A Later Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 623 pp. index. Blue cloth over boards. Moderate wear to boards, corners bumped and rubbed, closed tear to spine, spine ends chipped, cloth sunned, hinges cracked, shelf soil to gold top edge, interior clean. Reprint of first 1896 edition.

YKUF, 1944. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 174 pp. 8vo. Light blue cloth with blue titles. Yiddish text. Edge wear and fading to cloth, corners mildly bumped, mild agetoning, roughly cut fore edges, clean interior, binding and hinges secure. Set in the Jewish Autonomous Region of the former Soviet Union.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 346 pp. Published for the Crime Club. Black and red cloth binding. Corners mildly bumped, interior age toned, front hinge a bit weak but still secure, text clean and tight. "Because an unknown sailor was murdered on a lonely road, an American diplomat became the most noted burglar in England.

New York: Random House, 1964. Hardcover. Good. Angie Draper. New York: Random House, 1964. First edition. Good. Angie Draper. 246 pp. illustrated. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Pictorial boards. Former school library copy. Prior owner's names in ink on illustrated endpapers; soiling to a few pages, corners rubbed and bumped, fading to front cover titles, edge wear. Many black and white line drawings, some full page. "In the most dramatic race of all time, the Black Stallion and Flame, the magnificent Island Stalliion, compete for the winner's purse at Hialeah." <br/><br/>

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1954. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 393 pp. Decorated paper and cloth over boards. Dust jacket unclipped with original $3.95 on flap, chipped and worn at edges with some foxing and age stains. Old transparent tape and marks from old brodart cover (removed) on boards with corresponding discoloration and foxing to endpapers. Otherwise a sound copy in tight, square binding. Text block clean. The story of the first Jews to settle in America. In 1654, twenty-three Dutch Jews arrived in New Amsterdam, so named by countryman Peter Stuyvesant, and later renamed New York..

New York: Harper & Row, 1986, 1986. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 320 pp. Index. Dust jacket has two short edge tears, a couple of nicks, edge creasing, otherwise nice and bright. Previous owner's inscriptions on both sides of front free endpaper. Interior clean, binding tight. Pages 209-240 bound backwards and upside down. An annotated bibliography of books concerning Jews and Judaism listed by categories, each introduced by an expert in the category..

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.

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1947. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 190 pp. Red cloth covered boards, worn at edges, some rubbing to spine, mild spine slant, interior toned, binding tight. Tower Books Edition stated first printing, July 1947. Originally published in 1931 as The Woman Money Buys. A novel about the problems of a gold-digger.

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.

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.