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The Bookpress Ltd. is located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, near the junction of Jamestown Road and Route 199. In the shop, we sell a wide range of books, maps, and prints. We are open from 10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, and at other times by appointment or chance. Additionally, we issue regularly printed catalogues featuring books on Architecture, Fine and Applied Arts, Gardening, the Book Arts (including the History of Printing), Colonial Americana and Virginiana, Wine, and Horticulture, as well as Rare Books in other subject areas. We frequently list web catalogues with accompanying images of many of our books on the catalogues section of our website.
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If you are interested in receiving our printed catalogues, we would be happy to add your name to our mailing list. We would also be glad to add you to our web mailing for when we update our web catalogues if you furnish us with your e-mail address. Just click on "Contact Us" above and fill out the information. In addition to publishing catalogues, we also exhibit at book fairs throughout the United States. The Bookpress Ltd. was founded thirty-three years ago. Both owners, John Ballinger and John Robert Curtis, Jr. are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America and past members of their Board of Governors. Our address is: 1304 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185, or Post Office Box KP, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187. (757) 229-1260 |
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JOHN ROBERT CURTIS, JR. is a graduate of Harvard University,
Class of 1962. He was a Peace Corp volunteer and later served in several administrative positions for the organization . John was a founding partner, with
Marcia Carter and Larry McMurtry, in Booked-Up, leaving to form The Bookpress Ltd. in 1973.
He is also a partner in the internationally known Trellis Restaurant of Williamsburg.
John is also past-President of the Virginia Museum, and Trustee of China Institute of America, Chrysler Museum of Art, and the Lower James River Association. |
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JOHN BALLINGER has been a partner in The Bookpress Ltd. since 1982.
Prior to that he was a partner in Oak Knoll Books and owner of Ballinger's
Book Service. He also is the author of The Williamsburg Forgeries and The Jefferson Letters, mysteries about the rare
book trade. He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Friends of the Library,
The Mariner's Museum, and has served on the board of directors for The Friends of the Library, The College of William and Mary, the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, and the American Printing History Association. |
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BENNIE BROWN, our Cataloguer, is a native of Norfolk, Virginia, with an M.A. degree from the University of Georgia. He was the first librarian-curator at Gunston Hall, the eighteenth-century plantation home of George Mason and is currently doing research on early Virginia libraries. He has been a frequent speaker on the subject at various symposia. |
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MATTHEW SPINO, our former photographer, has left the world of rare books and gone on to graduate work at the University of Maryland, where he is studying political philosophy. |
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LOUIS HAGMAIER, our former bookshop manager, has recently retired and now is pursuing the zen of motorcycling. |
Email: bookpress@bookpress.com
©2007 The Bookpress, Ltd.