Search Results: Titles starting with U from The Bookpress, Ltd.

(PHOTOGRAPHY) MALONEY, T.J. (editor.) U.S. CAMERA, 1940. New York: Random House, 1940. 4to. Boards, spiral bound. 276 pages. Annual publication on photography. Color and black and white examples, plus advertisements. Front board loose. Cover spotted.

HOWES, Wright. U.S.IANA (1650-1950). New York: R.R. Bowker for The Newberry Library, 1988. Large 8vo. Cloth. 652 pages. Reprint of the second, and best, edition. The standard bibliography for collectable Americana, again, and for a project long time, out-of-print. Fine.

(JAARBOEK) UITZICHTEN EN STROOMINGEN IN DE KUNSTNIJVERHAID.... Rotterdam: W.L. & J. Brusse,s, 1928. 4to. Wrappers. 151 pages. First edition Periodical of Dutch art and decorative arts featuring prime example of the twentieth century in ceramics, furniture, sculpture, stained glass, prints an posters. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Wrapper soiled, else very good.

TALBOT, Francis. UN SAINT PARMI LES SAUVAGES. Paris: Editions Spes, (1939.) 8vo. Cloth with original wrappers bound-in. Fi edition. Biography of Isaac Jogues, the seventeenth century explorer of America and Canada. Label on spine, else very good.

PRACHE, Gaston. UN VILLAGE D'ILE DE FRANCE, BOUTIGNY SUR-OPTON. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1965. 8vo. Wrappers. (iv), 335, (1) pages. First edition. Sixty years of Boutigny's history is covered, with illustrations; partly unopened. Inscription in ink on half-title, light cover wear, else very good.

GOWANS, Alan. THE UNCHANGING ARTS. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1971. 8vo. Cloth. x, 433 pages. First edition Examines modern, popular art as new forms for the traditional functions of ar in society. Illustrated. Text sporadically marked in pen, else very good.

(BRADLEY) MASON, Walt. UNCLE WALT. Chicago: George Matthew Adams, 1910. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. 189 pages. Second printing. This is a very good, bright copy of a book with cover designs by Will Bradley Additionally there is a long presentation by the book's publisher ``from the highly organized but poor publisher of this little volume.'' This is an excellent example of Bradley's later design work. After becoming art editor Collier's in 1907, he did very few outside assignments. Scarce.

WEITZMAN, David. UNDERFOOT, AN EVERDAY GUIDE TO EXPLORING THE AMERICAN PAST. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1976). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 192 page First edition. Weitzman explains how to recognize, interpret, and record remnants of the pas from old buildings, antiques, gravestones, books, and newspapers. Informatio is also given on preserving and recording family records, geneologies, and memories. Very good in a rubbed dust jacket.

KATZ, Leo. UNDERSTANDING MODERN ART. (Chicago:) the Adelphian Society, (1936.) 8vo. Cloth. (x), 257 pages, plates First edition. Part one of a three part series Orientation for Modern Times "An interpretati of the historical, psychological, philosophical, and scientific backgrounds o modern art," This first part by Leo Katz. Over two hundred and sixty-one illustrations. Some underlining and notes in pencil. Minimal rubbing to tip of spine, else very good.

(PICASSO) MACKENZIE, Helen F. UNDERSTANDING PICASSO, A STUDY OF HIS STYLES DEVELOPMENT. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, (1940.) Folio. Portfolio. (3 leaves), 19 plates. First edition. Collection of plates showing the major works of Picasso compared with the styles and representative art examples that influenced him. Portfolio worn.

VARLEY, Charles. THE UNFORTUNATE HUSBANDMAN. London: Oldbourne, (1964). Large 12mo. Cloth, dust jacket. "An account of the life and travels of a real farmer in Ireland, Scotland, England, and America." Very small waterstain on dust jacket at base of spine else very good.

(COLOR PRINTING) UNIFORMEN DER ALTEN ARMEE. Munich: Waldorf-Astoria, n.d. (1920's or '30's) Square 4to. Stiff wrappers. (48) pages. First edition. Contains three hundred and twelve color printed cigarette cards on twenty-six pages of German soldiers and officers in full uniform, complete. Wrappers rubbed and lightly chipped, else a very good, bright copy.

HENKELS. THE UNIQUE COLLECTION OF ENGRAVED PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN NAVAL.... Philadelphia: 1905. 4to. Cloth, with original wrappers bound-in. 80, (4) pag 15 plates. First edition. Being Part IV of the Hampton L. Carson auction sale. Spine torn and worn, wi prices realized.

BALDWIN, Charles N. A UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, CONTAINING THE LIVE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED CHARACTERS OF EVERY AGE AND NATION... TO WHICH IS ADDE DICTIONARY OF THE PRINCIPAL DIVINITIES AND HEROES OF GRECIAN AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY; AND A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF EMINENT LIVING CHARACTERS. Richmond: Published by Normand (sic) White, 1826. 8vo. Contemporary sheep, spine gold tooled, edges stained yellow. 444 pages,frontispiece. [American Imprints, 23580.] An abridegment, with additions, of Lempiere. Probably printed in New York. binding is slightly rubbed but in very good condition, nice. (5818).

(CAMBRIDGE CHRISTMAS BOOK) THE UNIVERSITY PRINTING HOUSES AT CAMBRIDGE FROM SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Cambridge: 1962. Oblong 4to. Cloth, slipcase. 16 pages. One of 500 copies. A history of the press here issued as one of its series of Christmas Books. Fine.

PROCTOR, Paul Dean, and others. URANIUM, WHERE IT IS AND HOW TO FIND IT. Salt Lake City: Eagle Rock Publishers, (1955.) 8vo. Cloth. Endpapers lightly stained. Very good.

SPREIRENGEN, Paul D. URBAN DESIGN: THE ARCHITECTURE OF TOWNS AND CITIES. New York: McGraw-Hill, (1965). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. xii, 243 pages. Firs edition. The author offers a visual approach to the design of towns, cities, and regio Fine in slightly rubbed dust jacket.

GALLION, Arthur and Simon Eisner. THE URBAN PATTERN. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, (1963). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispiece, x, (ii), 435 pages. First edition. An illustrated reference book on city growth and planning. Dust jacket light worn, signature in ink on front free endpaper, else very good.

JOHNSTON, R.J. URBAN RESIDENTIAL PATTERNS. New York: Praeger, (1971). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. 382, (1) pages. First edition. The patterns of residential segregation in English speaking cities are studie with illustrations. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, else good.

ODMANN, Ella and Gun-Britt Dahlberg. URBANIZATION IN SWEDEN. Uddevalla: Allmanna Forlaget, (1970). 8vo. Stiff wrappers. 256 pages, 1 fold map. First edition. A study of the means and methods used for city planning in Sweden, with illustrations and a map of Sweden's (24 x 9 inches) economic features. Very good.