At Bromer Booksellers, we focus on the visual book, with fine images that both enhance narrative and stand alone as independent creations. Among our holdings in this area are costume books, emblem books, examples from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, the fantasy illustrators in the tradition of Arthur Rackham, and modern books with original graphics. We look for the successful fusion of picture with text from any century, any country, and across a variety of artistic movements and media. We are especially fascinated with books of other cultures, and you will occasionally find items such as Japanese illustrated woodblock books and Eskimo tales without words ...
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(Middle Falls, NY: The Toy Works), 1979. A cotton beanbag of a smiling pink pig, measuring seven inches from toe to eartip, and wearing a brown tweed jacket. In back, the turned-up vent shows that the jacket is lined to match his tasteful goldenrod bow-tie. This is one of five..... More
(Middle Falls, NY: The Toy Works), 1979. A cotton beanbag of a smiling pink pig, measuring seven inches from toe to eartip, and wearing a brown tweed jacket. In back, the turned-up vent shows that the jacket is lined to match his tasteful goldenrod bow-tie. This is one of five..... More
1986. Broadside. One of 100 copies signed by Gorey. Advertisement for the 1986 Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival. Two figures sit on a rooftop, their backs to a weathervane. The figures play the flute and the violin, respectively, while the weathervane angel plays a trumpet. Some creasing around edges..... More
c. 1970. Pen-and-ink on three leaves measuring 8 1/2 by 11 inches. The first sheet, on pale yellow stock folded into fourths, contains a panel of six roughed-out storyboards, a more detailed drawing of what became the cover of the published work, and in the upper left, a series of..... More
1996. First edition. Both sets are from an edition of 500 copies, and each are signed by the illustrator, Edward Gorey, as "Dogear Wryde." The sets contain twelve postcards printed with new verses, penned by Gorey, about the panacea of Q.R.V. Both sets of postcards are housed in their original..... More
Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 1996. Small quarto. 26 pp. From an edition of 2,000 copies, this is one of 200 copies signed and numbered by Edward Gorey. Bromer special holiday catalog with previously unpublished, full-color cover design by Gorey, who created the artwork originally for a Nieman Marcus holiday catalogue. When..... More
NY: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1976. Octavo. 20pp. Signed by Gorey on the front cover, below a portrait of him done by Don Bachardy. A rare checklist, notable both for its collecting ephemerality and its use as a reference. Faint rubs to edges, else near fine. More
NY: Gotham Book Mart & Gallery, 1976. Octavo. 18pp. Front cover illustration by Gorey shows Gorey's iconic sweatered cats cavorting up and down a stack of books, at the top of which one cat holds a flag on which is printed the address of the Book Mart. Rear cover illustration..... More
Philadelphia; NY: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1961. First edition. Drawings throughout by Edward Gorey accompany Ciardi's ribald poetry. Bound in full yellow cloth with a drawing reproduced in red on the upper cover. Mild toning to edges, faint foxing to paste-downs, else a very good copy with a mildly soiled..... More
1978. First edition. Sixteen seemingly unrelated postcards housed in illustrated envelope, including "Emma Lorino or her doll, Summer 1892." Cards all fine, in an envelope toned at edges, else near fine. (Toledano A68). More
Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1992. First edition. One of 250 copies, signed by Gorey. An illustrated catalog of Gorey's postcard collections, with a previously unpublished print laid in, signed and numbered by Gorey. Fine in illustrated wrappers and the original slipcase. (Toledano A104a). More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. Signed by the author. An image of a black doll pasted to the front cover is the only illustration. Fine in black wrappers. (Toledano A49a). More
NY: Meredith Press, 1968. First edition. "An opera book without libretto or score". Mild rubbing to corners, else near fine in near fine dust wrapper. (Toledano A27a). More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First edition. One of 126 copies, signed by the artist, Edward Gorey. A Gorey favorite, with fifty numbered cats, in color, posed in Goreyesque manner. Cat number IV lounges back on one arm while streamers wave above him. The original drawings were done to accompany..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. First edition of Gorey's third book. Fine in pictorial boards with a fine, bright original dust wrapper that shows only faint soiling, the slightest bit of edgewear, and some toning to extremities. (Toledano A3a). More
NY: Adama Books, 1983. (61)pp. First reprint of Gorey's first miniature book. Signed by Gorey. The text is an alphabet of short humorous couplets patterned after early moral primers for children, as in "Find tasks to do While in a Queue." Each couplet is accompanied by an illustration, which was..... More
NY: Ivan Obolensky, 1960. First edition. A twisted alphabet of Gorey characters, in which "the Magnate waits upon the pavement... and ponders further child-enslavement." Light rubbing to extremities of blue pictorial wrappers, some pale foxing to flyleaves, edge toning, else good. Together with: The Gorey Alphabet. Constable: London, 1960. First..... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, (1971). First edition. Signed by Gorey. Illustrated with color plates and black & white line drawings by Victoria Chess. Slightest rubbing to spine ends, else about fine in dust wrapper. (Toledano A25). More
(N.p.): Fantod Press, 1990. First edition. One of 500 copies, signed by Gorey. Full-page illustrations and facing pages of verse on the themes of settees, companionship, cake, and Q.R.V. Fine in illustrated wrappers featuring cushions reading Q.R.V. (Toledano A99). More
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1966. First edition. "The life and art of a fabled ballerina". With signed copy of the prospectus laid in. Rubs to corners, else near fine in near fine dust wrapper. (Toledano A21a). More
NY: Ivan Obolensky, 1961. First edition. "An undiluted tragedy with a generous population of foul Small Creatures and a wickedly pleasurable Surprise for non-admirers of Miss Burnett." Generic shelfwear and fading, to edges and spine, else very good in wrappers. Together with a copy of the 1989 reissue by Peter..... More
1989. Second printing. One of 500 sets. A set of twenty cards that can be "read in 2,432,902,069,736,640,000 different ways." Housed in plastic box, as issued, which is split at corners and has tape residue on the front. (Toledano A95a). More
1989. Fourth printing. One of 500 sets, signed by Gorey. A set of twenty cards that can be "read in 2,432,902,069,736,640,000 different ways." Housed in plastic box, as issued, which has tape residue on the front. Fine. (Toledano A95a). More
1979. First edition. One of fifty sets of thirteen postcards, all hand-colored by Gorey. Colophon sheet included, signed and numbered by Gorey. Each card features a creature interpreting amusing adjectives starting with the letter "I," such as "Indecency," "Inquisitiveness," and "Ineptitude." Each creature wears different colored gloves. Housed in a...... More
(N.p.): Scholastic Magazines, 1973. (11)ff. Volume 4 in the "Lucky Mini-book" series. A tiny, 3 1/2-inch high, folding panorama, with Gorey's illustrations printed in two colors. Minimal bumps to corners and slight toning, else near fine. (Toledano B55). More
