Authors starting with U from The Bookpress, Ltd.

1894. UHDE, Constantin. BAUDEN KMAELER IN GROSSBRITANNIEN. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1894. Folio. Disbound, slipcase. (viii), 21 pages, 17 plates. First edition. A comprehensive photographic survey of British architecture, showing the work Sir Christopher Wren, Inigo Jones, and others. It features St. Paul's Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, and those in Ely, Durham, and York; Windsor Castle, Bramshill, Hatfield House, and other estates are included, as well a photograph of Stonehenge.... more information

1949. UHDE, Wilhem. FIVE PRIMITIVE MASTERS. New York: The Quadrangle Press, 1949. 4to. Cloth. 104 pages. First English language edition. First published in German in 1947, Uhde discusses Rousseau, Vivin, Seraphine, Bombois, and Bauchant. With four color plates tipped-in, and thirty-one blac and white illustrations. Inscription in ink on front flyleaf, else very good ... more information

1935. UKERS, William H. ALL ABOUT TEA. Two volumes. New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, 1935. 4to. Publisher's cloth. Co frontispiece, xvi, 559; viii, 568 pages. First edition. Still considered to be the most comprehensive book on tea, it contains an extensive bibliography and chronology on the subject. This is a very bright set. As with many copies of this set, the foreedge had been exposed to moisture, most probably before the books were bound, crinkling many pages (especially in Volume I)... more information

1943. Paperback. ULRICH, Carolyn F., and Karl Kup. BOOKS AND PRINTING, A SELECTED LIST OF PERIODICALS, 1800-1942. Woodstock: William E. Rudge, 1943. 8vo. Wrappers. xi, (i), 244 pages. First edition. With a foreword by Frederic G. Melcher. Wrappers worn, text very good. ... more information

1943. Paperback. ULRICH, Carolyn F. and Karl Kup. BOOKS AND PRINTING; A SELECTED LIST OF PERIODICALS, 1800-1942. Woodstock: William E. Rudge, 1943. 4to. Wrappers. 244 pages. First edition. The standand, annotated bibliography on the subject. One signature has been duplicated in the binding. The 20 missing pages are supplied in facsimile. ... more information

1994. (NIEMEYER) UNDERWOOD, David. OSCAR NIEMEYER AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF BRAZIL. New York: Rizzoli, (1994). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition Underwood concentrates on the stylistic evolution in Niemeyer's work. Fine. ... more information

1815. Paperback. (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY) EXCERPTA E STATUTIS ACADEMIAE CANTABRIGIENSIS.... Cantabrigiae: J. Smith, 1815. 8vo. Later wrappers. 30 pages, 1 folding plate Stating rules and costs for attending Cambridge University in 1815. Inscript in ink on title page, else fine. ... more information

1974. Paperback. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. THE INVISIBLE IMAGE, AMERICAN TYPEFOUNDING AND THE PRIN BOOK, 1725-1900. New York: Butler Library, 1974. 4to. Wrappers. First edition. An exhibit with 89 items. Very good. ... more information

1959. UNSAL, Behcet. TURKISH ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE. London: Alec Tiranti, 1959. Square 12mo. Cloth. Frontispiece, vi, 118 pages, illustrations on plates. First edition. With a short glossary and bibliography; well illustrated. Ex-library copy, with appropriate markings, covers and spine rubbed, else very good. ... more information

1978. UPCOTT, William. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS RELATING T ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY, Three volumes in one. Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1978. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket, x, 1575 pages. A reprint of the 1818 edition of this county by county reference. Very good. ... more information

1975. (MERRYMOUNT) UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley, and others. NOTES ON THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS & ITS WORK. San francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1975. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. "With bibliographical list of books printed at the press, 1893-1933," by Juli Pearce Smith; "to which has been added a supplementary bibliography of books printed at the press, 1934-1949," by Daniel Berkeley Bianchi. Limited to fiv hundred copies. Fine. ... more information

1937. UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. PRINTING TYPES; THEIR HISTORY, FORMS, AND USE. Two volumes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937. 8vo. Cloth, dust jackets. xl, 292 xx, 326 pages, plates. Second edition. A standard work on the production and uses of type. Fine in chipped and sunn dust jackets. ... more information

1861. Paperback. UPHAM, Nathaniel G. LETTER ON THE PRESENT CRISIS. Concord: McFarland and Jenks, 1861. 8vo. Wrappers. Very good. ... more information

1863. URBINO, Madame L.B., and others. ART RECREATIONS. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1863. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Top edge gilt. Frontispie 336, (1), pages. New edition. Being a comprehensive art manual. Some of the topics are pencil drawing, antique painting, sign painting, moss work, papier mache, cone work, gilding bronzing, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, panorama painti and many more. Some minor cover wear. ... more information

1854. URE, Andrew. A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND MINES. Two volumes. New York: Appleton, 1854. 8vo. Later brown buckram. xiv, 1118 pages; (ii), 9 pages. Revised edition. First published in 1839. Ure was a Scottish chemist and scientific writer. developed a course of popular scientific lectures for working men, the first its kind. This American edition is from the fourth English edition, the firs to appear after the 1851 Great Exhibition, containing a great deal of new information. Stain to ti... more information

1988. Paperback. (RIETVELD) CENTRAAL MUSEUM UTRECHT. RIETVELD SCHRODER ARCHIEF. (Utrecht): Centraal Museum Utrecht, 1988. 16mo. Wrappers. First edition. A nice museum publication on the architecture of architects Rietveld and Schroder. Black and white pictures and color drawings throughout. Fine. ... more information

1904. UZANNE, Octave. THE FRENCH BOOKBINDERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1904. 4to. Cloth spine, boards. 133 (1) pages, 20 plat First edition. One of 250 copies. [Mejer, 614; Brenni, 605]. Illustrated with six wash drawings by Paul Avril, fourteen facsimile binders' labels and twenty photographs of bookbindings. Divided into five chapters; t origin, first attempts at a decorative renaissance, the master binders, price tools, raw materials and a special chapter on the use of silk, ... more information