Titles starting with J from The Bookpress, Ltd.

1892. Paperback. (GREUZE) NORMAND, Ch. J.B. GREUZE. (Paris: Librairie de L'Art, 1892.) 4to. Later half-morocco, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, (ii), 116 pages, 10 plates. First edition. Number 8 of 100 copi [Freitag 3939]. A well illustrated monograph on the 18th-century artist Greuze, with an extra suite of plates printed in sepia; printed on Japanese vellum, with original wrappers bound in. Light coverwear, bookplate, some foxing. ... more information

1994. PEARSON, Robert, and Brad Pearson. THE J.C. NICHOLS CHRONICLE. Lawrence: Country Club Plaza Press, (1994). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 3 pages. First edition. Nichols (1880-1994) played a key role in the early twentieth century architectural development of Kansas City. Fine. ... more information

1967. (LEAF BOOK) WULLING, Emerson G. J. JOHNSON, TYP. ODDMENTS FROM HIS TYPOGRAPHIA, OR THE PRINTERS' INSTRUCTOR WITH AN ORIGINAL LEAF THEREFROM. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1967. Small 8vo. Cloth. 22, (1) pages, 1 leaf. One of 396 copies. A nice leaf book with an essay discussing what Bigmore and Wyman called the m familiar book on printing. Fine. ... more information

1997. (REID) MITCHELL, William R., Jr. J. NEEL REID, ARCHITECT. Savannah: The Georgia Trust, 1997. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xi, 231 pages, illustrations. First edition. A catalogue raisonne of Reid's buildings in Macon, Atlanta, Florida, and othe Southern locals. Fine. ... more information

1938. JAARBERICHT, VAN GET VOORAZIATISCH-EGYPTISCH GEZELSCHAP, EX ORIENTE LUX, DEEL NOS. 1-5. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1938. 4to. Cloth. xii, 500 (4) pages, 40 (1) plates, (4) fold-out plates, (1) fold-out map. First edition. A report of an archeological exploration of Egypt. Very good. ... more information

1960. HUGINS, Walter. JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY AND THE WORKING CLASS. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1960. 8vo. Cloth. viii, 286 pages. First edition. ``A study of the New York workingmen's movement, 1829- 1837.'' No. 19 in the Stanford Studies in History, Economics, and Political Science series. ... more information

1762. (BOOKPLATE) BARON, Bernard, engraver. JACOBUS GIBBS, ARCHITECTUS. (London): 1736. (3 7/8 x 5 inches). A fine Jacobean style portrait plate, titled "JACOBUS GIBBS ARCHITECTUS," dat beneath the portrait 1736 and signed B. B. S. (Bernard Baron, Sculpt.) He was French engraver who worked in England from 1712 to 1762. He mixed with many England's leading artists, sculptors and architects and was one of four Frenchmen selected by William Hogarth to engrave plates for Marriage a la Mod Among... more information

1969. (LIPCHITZ) Arnason, H.H. JACQUES LIPCHITZ: SKETCHES IN BRONZE. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969. 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. ii, 195 pages First edition. Being a collection of maquettes by twentieth-century sculptor Jacques Lipchit When available, photographs of completed works are included. Original owners inscription in free endpaper. Very good copy with some wear to dust jacket. ... more information

1939. NILES, Blair. THE JAMES. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, (1939.) 8vo. Cloth. x, 373 pages. Dust jacket pasted to front free endpaper, spine sunned. ... more information

1966. (BOSWELL) Pottle, Frederick A. JAMES BOSWELL. THE EARLIER YEARS, 1740- 1769. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1966). Small 4to. Cloth. Frontispiece, xxiii, 607 pages. First edition. Being the biography of James Boswell, the famous biographer of Samuel Johnson Written by the editor of the journals of James Boswell. Very good. ... more information

1957. (CABELL) BRUCCOLI, Matthew. JAMES BRANCH CABELL, A BIBLIOGRAPHY PART II, NOT ON THE CABELL COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Charlottesville: 1957. 8vo. Disbound (as issued). 178 pages. Being an advance review copy of the second volume of James Branch Cabell, A Bibliography, here issued separately by the press. ... more information

1973. (DAKIN) SCULLY, Arthur, Jr. JAMES DAKIN, ARCHITECT: HIS CAREER IN NEW YORK AND THE SOUTH. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1973). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 209 pages with 9 full-color plates. First edition. A biographical sketch of the life and wotk of Dakin, the only prominent Ameri architect to work both in the North and the South during the nineteenth centu best known for designing the Louisiana State House. Top of dust jacket very slightly torn, slight marginal browning, else ver... more information

1943. (ENSOR) FIERENS, Paul. JAMES ENSOR. Paris: Editions Hyperion, (1943). Small folio. Boards. 164, (1) pages. First edition. Fierens' monograph on the artist James Ensor details his contributions to painting, including color illustrations. Covers worn, text very good. ... more information

1951. Paperback. (ENSOR) TENNENBAUM, Libby. JAMES ENSOR. New York: Museum of Modern Art, (1951.) Large 8vo. Printed stiff wrappers. Frontispiece, 127, (1) pages. First edition. Monograph on the twentieth century Belgian artist--his paintings and drawings Many illustrations in color. Very good. ... more information

1971. (COZZENS) MICHEL, Pierre. JAMES GOULD COZZENS, AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST. N.P.: Kent State University Press, (1971). 12mo. Cloth. 123, (1) pages. Firs edition. Number 22 of The Serif Series. Very good. ... more information

1980. (KNOWLES) METCALF, Priscilla. JAMES KNOWLES, VICTORIAN EDITOR AND ARCHITECT Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, xvi, 3 16 plates. First edition. A review copy, a biography of Knowles, who started his career in architecture and later founded and edited the Nineteenth Century; illustrated. Bookplate minor rubbing on dust jacket, else good. ... more information

1954. LEWIS, Frank. JAMES LEHMAN (WORKING 1706-1718) SPITALFIELDS DESIGNER. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis Publishers, (1954.) 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. x, 38 plates numbered on 24 pages. First edition. A special monograph on the textile designs of James Leman from Spitalfields, renown textile producing area in eighteenth century England. Illustrated wit thirty-eight original eighteenth century designs of patterns in textiles. Ve good. ... more information

1981. (CHILDREN'S BOOKS) ROSCOE, S., and R.A. Brimmell. JAMES LUMSDEN & SON OF GLASGOW, THEIR JUVENILE BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS. (Middlesex, England): Private libraries Association, 1981. 8vo. Cloth. Firs edition. Annotated catalogue of more than one hundred and seventy special children's books by the firm of James Lumsden & Son up to 1830. Very good. ... more information

1968. (THURBER) BOWDEN, Edwin T. JAMES THURBER; A BIBLIOGRAPHY. (N.P.): Ohio State University, (1968). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 353 pag First edition. Section A gives full descriptions, collations, and publication information. Section B cites 669 periodical appearances. Also cited separately are drawin that appeared in periodicals, contributions to other books and translations. Fine. ... more information

1963. (SIGNET PRESS) JAMES WATSON'S PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF PRINTING 1713. Greenock, Scotland: 1963. 8vo. Printed paper over boards. xiv, 35, (3) pages two folding plates. One of 250 copies. Being a reprint of the first account of printing in Scotland. Fine. ... more information