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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Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969. First edition. A story of Donald and his quest to find and care for an animal friend. Near fine in illustrated boards with near fine dust wrapper, dollar price clipped off, while British price remains. (Toledano B41a).
NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. Contains an interview with Gorey, analysis by art critic Karen Wilkin, and 200 illustrations. Very fine in illustrated dust wrapper.
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1974. Large oblong octavo. (9)pp. First illustrated edition. One of 1,000 copies, signed by Gorey on the title page. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Corner of one page slightly creased, else a fine copy in tan wrappers. (Toledano B59c).
Boston, MA: Earthlight Gallery, 1980. Poster for the exhibition of paintings and drawings by fantasy artists Barry Windsor-Smith and Robert Gould at the Earthlight Gallery in Boston. The exhibit was held from November 22 through December 31, 1980. The exhibit poster features the illustration "The Head of Perseus" by Windsor-Smith...
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959-1965. Folio. Four volumes: "Figure Prints of Old Japan." 1959. (110)ff., + 52 plates. One of 400 copies. "Landscape Prints of Old Japan." 1960. (110)ff., + 50 plates. One of 450 copies. "Ukiyo-e: The Floating World." 1962. (92)ff., + 28 plates. One of 400...
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1953. Small quarto. (vi), 191pp. One of 180 copies printed in French Lettre Bâtarde on handmade paper. Illustrated with six striking color woodcuts by Mary Grabhorn. The most beautiful of the Grabhorn Press Shakespeare series. Slight separation at title page gutter, faint foxing to one page...
Newark / NY: Charles E. Graham & Co., (c. 1900). Quarto. (40)pp. Illustrated with sixteen bright full-page chromolithographed plates, including a magnificent two-page spread showing a yoke of oxen, plus another twenty-two pages of black & white illustrations. The book is divided into three sections: "Animal Pictures," "Our Bird Friends,"...
(San Francisco: Richard A. Gleeson Library, 1970). Large quarto. French-folded single sheet. Sketch of the poet Robert Graves to the front cover. On the interior, the printed text faces a facsimile of the original, handwritten poem. Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy and presented to the joint meeting of hte...
London: Folio Society, 2013. Folio. (116)pp. With addtional volume of commentary by Irene Tyler, octavo, xiv, 210pp. One of 1000 copies. A bold facsimile edition of Blake's watercolors, romantically set behind Gray's poems. The accompanying volume, Tyler's Blake's Illustrations to the Poems of Gray, remains the most authoritative analysis of...
(Berkeley): Rasmussen Press, 1974. 81pp. One of 200 copies, this one being an unnumbered gift edition inscribed "To Doris- In memory of K.G." Illustrated with five sets of verses and drawings compiled by Lucile Rasmussen from those published in the Ladies' Home Journal, which were never published in book form...
Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1932. Tall octavo. 266, (2)pp. One of 275 copies. Illustrated with twenty-nine chapter headpieces from wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Printed in Baskerville type on Japanese vellum. This copy has been bound in full light brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Upper cover features title in gilt...
Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 2003. Quarto. xv, (3), 99pp. One of 215 copies. Van Niekerk's wood engravings throughout, including frontispiece portrait of Herbert and a rendering of the Vitruvian Man on the whole of page 36. Edited, with introduction and notes, by The Earl of Powis. Bound in quarter-leather by Alan...
Paris: Moreau, (1983). Oblong 12mo. (26) pp. Illustrated by Baltazar. From an edition of 220 copies, this is one of forty signed by the author and by the illustrator, and hand-colored. Reproduced entirely by serigraphy, the text is from the author's own manuscript. The abstract black and white illustrations have...
(Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1979). Quarto. (12)pp., (37)ff. One of 50 copies printed in American Uncial on Canson paper. A compilation of 36 plates printed from blocks cut or engraved by Victor Hammer. Several plates are hand-colored and all are tipped-in. Book compiled and designed by Carolyn R. Hammer and...
London: Rainbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by the author. With full page two-color illustrations by Barrie Cooke. Handsomely printed early limited edition prints eight poems thematically related to Heaney's poetic pursuit of the archaeology of Ireland's violent past. These poems were published a month ahead...
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd, 1991. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan, who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the...
Dublin: Andrew Carpenter, 1979. First edition. From an edition of 125, this is one of 30 copies issued in black morocco and offered for sale. Illustrated with two lithographs by Louis Le Brocquy. Signed by Heaney, Le Brocquy, Liam Miller the designer, and the publisher, Andrew Carpenter. The book was...
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Quarto. (5)ff. One of fifty copies signed by the contemporary Canadian artist Charles van Sandwyk. With six tipped-in plates, five of which are from the artist's earliest etchings, and one etching executed for this work. A brief essay about etching by van Sandwyk accompanies the artwork...
Woodside, CA: Heyeck Press, 1995. Folio. 61pp. One of 90 copies. Signed by the author. Five full-page drawings by Okada, depicting various scenes from nature - a row of pines, leaves in the sun, and the like - in black and white. Printed using Centaur and Arrighi types on Barcham...
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in...
Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1968. xi, 42pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts replicated from seventeenth-century originals. Very fine in gilt-stamped black morocco. (2 5/16 by 2; 58x51mm.).
Tilton, NH: Hillside Press, 1974. 55pp. One of 250 copies. Punctuated with illustrations of terrific monsters and characters under their spell. Bound in orange pictorial cloth. Fine. (2 3/8 by 2 in.; 60x50 mm).
Buffalo: Hillside Press, 1978. 50pp. One of 250 copies. A version of the Arabian nights, illustrated in black & white. Fine in olive green cloth. (2 1/4 by 2; 59x49mm).
Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1966. xvii, 42pp. One of 375 copies. Various texts by Shakespeare with twelve silhouettes by Paul Konewka. Fine in burgundy cloth over boards, faintly rubbed. (2 5/16 by 1 15/16; 60x50 mm.).
London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. Elephant folio. xv, 48pp., + 85 facsimile drawings. One of 500 copies. Holbein's works are here confidently accompanied by Foister's esteemed analysis, with a Foreword by Sir Robin Mackworth-Young. Booklet bound in full burgundy cloth with gilt stamping. Together with portfolio housed in matching Solander...
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