Fryer Benjamin James Johnson (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter tan cloth printed in black with decorated paper-covered boards, slender 4to., ii, 12, (1) pages, illustrated with four photographs. One of 300 numbered copies printed by Cecil and James Johnson at the Windsor Press. A very good copy with light toning of the end-papers and margins of the boards, and with some moderate edgewear and soiling.

FRYER, Benjamin N. and JOHNSON, James. Bruce Rogers and the Figurehead of the Joseph Conrad. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards. San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1938.4to. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Fine.

Condition: Near Fine. Frontispiece and Three Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Large quarto, paper-covered boards over cloth spine. One of 300 numbered copies, near fine. No markings or bookplates. Frontispiece and three illustrations. Bruce Rogers carved the figurehead of Joseph Conrad. Nice copy.

Limited edition of 300 copies, of which this is No. 20. James and Cecil Johnson of the Windsor Press were born in Sydney in 1897 and 1900 respectively. The two brothers were in Canada when war broke out and served with the Canadian forces in France. After the war they established the Windsor Press in San Francisco, 1924, James the typographer, pressman, and sometimes author; Cecil, formerly an engineer, is the business manager. Both are authorities on typography and printing. in 1934 the Press received an order for their complete works from the National Library Peking, China. It is one of the presses of the California School of printing, its forte being small gem like books. Slim quarto, original quarter cloth, frontispiece, photo plates; extremities of boards show slight wear, nonetheless a very good copy from the Ingleton collection.