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

World Publishing, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 337 pp. Black cloth over boards. Dustjacket nicked at edges, spine and edges darkened, price on flap; light edgewear to boards, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Author's first novel of a young black boy growing up in a Northeastern ghetto amid poverty and violence.

New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1888. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Gavarni and Girardet. 847 pp. Illustrated. Red illustrated cloth binding. Front hinge cracked, front free endpaper and half-title loose, dampstaining to rear cover, spine darkened, prior owner's name stamp on front pastedown, interior browned. Undated, but OCLC cites 1888 as print date. Illustrated with 19 printed engraved plates..

New York: Harper & Bros., 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 321 pp. Dust jacket edgeworn with some paper loss at head of spine and top of front panel, flaps taped to pastedowns, bookplate on front pastedown, spine a bit cocked, binding tight, text clean, foxing to endpapers from dust jacket tape. Winner of the 1946 Harper Prize for novels, author's first. From the d.j.: " a monumental psychological study in family relationships, and something of a masterpiece in its ability to evoke the emotional frustrations of Jewish life in America.".

New York: Oxford Book Company, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. 293 pp. Index. Illustrated. Wear to spine ends and corners, several pages marked with pencil or red ink, school library stamps, label on front pastedown, other misc markings, binding tight, hinges strong. Junior High School text book for grades 7, 8, 9.

New York: Werner School Book Company, 1896. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 351 pp. Brown illustrated cloth over boards with black titles. Illustrated with line drawings and maps. Soiling and discoloration to cloth, small area of material loss to front cover, corners bumped, front free end paper missing, binding secure, interior clean. Author was school superintendent in Providence R.I.

New York: Parents Magazine Press, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Martha Alexander. Unpaginated, illustrated. 8vo square, 8x8 inches. Brown cloth over boards in price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket worn, soiling to front panel, nicks, short tears to edges, 1" open tear to heel of spine, closed 2" tear to rear panel; cloth is clean except for one soil spot to front, interior clean, rear hinge slightly cracked at upper end, binding secure. Front board mildly curved.

Bergenfeld, NJ: Avotaynu Inc., 2002. Revised Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 704 pp. illustrated. Illustrated paper over boards. Small area of shelf soil to lower text edge, one board corner mildly bumped, otherwise clean, bright, tight with few signs of wear. Gazetteer with unique features, alphabetical listing of towns, organized by longitude/latitude. Also alternate names, Jewish population, soundex search. Maps of the Pale of Settlement, Central and Eastern Europe before and after WW I, between the Wars, after WWII and today.

New York: New York Book Company, 1870. First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 650pp. 42 plates of engravings. illus. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine titles. Hinges broken, front end paper missing, old masking tape connecting front paste down and frontispiece verso, mostly mild/ some moderate foxing to interior, light wear to board edges and spine ends, spine mildly cocked. This is an apparent reissue with a twist of original title by the publisher of the 1869 Women of New York or the Under-world of a Great City by Ellington - a pseudonym according to OCLC, possibly for James Dabney McCabe in the opinion of one scholar (citation on request). The contents: Women of Fashion, Women of Pleasure, Married Women, Wicked Women, Female Artistes, Life in a Female Seminary, Other Women, Female institutions. The last paragraph of the preface sums up the book's general premise: " There are doubtless many true and noble women among the fashion and… Read More