Nathan Billstein (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Paper covered spine show light wear and missing 1/2" at top. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 25 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited ed. One of 250 copies only. Slim 12mo. in art deco design paper covered boards with multi-clored stripes and paper title label. 25 pp. A fine, fresh example. Collection of short anecdotes by a noted Baltimore fine press publisher.A lovely little production.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Torn glassine dust jacket. First Hardcover Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1926. Fine condition in the original glassine dust jacket. The jacket is intact but has 2 tears. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. 1926. First Hardcover Edition. Limited to 250 copies. This copy is unnumbered. Reprinted from The American Printer for October 1926. Charming and comic tales of printing and printers. Bound in distinctive and very unusual metallic-like, multi-colored boards. Printed paper title label on front cover. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Torn glassine dust jacket. 25pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's gray wrapper with a black and white portrait of a woman on the front cover. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 158 pages, complete. A clean copy overall. Some of the pages have some spots on the right edge, but they do not affect the text. Very light chipping on spine and right edge of the front cover and first few pages. A historical fiction novel about a woman named Virginia Grafton and the events of her homesteading life. Referenced in American Fiction, 1876-1900; no. 746: "Written in LC [Library of Congress] copy: 'By Nathan Billstein, of Balt., Md.'".

Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1926. 25 pp. 7¼ x 5 inches. Hardcover. A fine copy with the publisher's original (worn) glassine wrapper. First edition, limited to 250 copies, this hand-numbered as copy 227. Reprinted from The American Printer for October 1926, this humorous essay is by Nathan Billstein who may be the same Baltimore Jew listed in the American Jewish Year Book (19041905) and also wrote under the pseudonym Jennes Bryansen. Published by The Lord Baltimore Press (formerly The Friedenwald Company), which was likely a Jewish-owned concern given the prominence of the Friedenwald family in Baltimore's German Jewish community. Features a gloriously vibrant and colorful binding in metallic colorsmost appealing in this condition.