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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Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Octavo. (12)pp. One of fifty copies. A compilation of several works, poetic and in prose, all with illustrations of varying techniques. The contributors—Harold Budd, Scott Morgan, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Barbara Hodgson, and Hermann Ihlenburg—all would be working with Heavenly Monkey on projects over the coming year..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2020. Octavo. 112, (2) + 8 proofs bound-in at rear. One of fifteen deluxe copies, bound by Claudia Cohen in full limp vellum, with a matching box and the addended proofs. Initials throughout are simplified variations of Griffo's type for Ottaviano Petrucci's 1513 Paulina de recta..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2020. Octavo. 112, (2)pp. One of fifty numbered copies. Initials throughout are simplified variations of Griffo's type for Ottaviano Petrucci's 1513 Paulina de recta Paschae. A compendium of biographical insights on the mysterious Griffo, along with a leaf from the Aldine 1502 edition of Ovid's Heroides..... More
(Vancouver, BC): A Lone Press, 1998. 64mo. (11)ff. Partially accordionfold, held in place by a slit in the rear paste-down. Minimalistic illustrations throughout follow the narrator's tale of an adventure through moonlit Denver. An early production by Rollin Milroy, later proprietor of Heavenly Monkey, with his clever touches to type..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Octavo. (10)pp. One of six A.P. copies. With four original etchings by Harold Budd, as after the first ten copies of the regular edition. The frontispiece and colophon etchings bear Budd's initials in pencil. These illustrations, along with Budd's four poems, make up Heavenly Monkey..... More
Vancouver, BC: A Lone Press, 1999. (15)pp. One of thirty-six copies. A near-continuous color illustration of a surreal sunrise follows a one-sentence story, written by Burgess and appearing in a lost-to-the-printer volume of similarly brief tales. An introduction states that the printer committed the sentence to memory, and asks for..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Octavo. 6ff. One of two artist's proof copies out of a total edition of fifty. Includes frontispiece and colophon illustrations, each reproducing one of the artist's original photograms as a photogravure; in the regular edition, each copy received only one of these. The second in..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2015. Small octavo. 16, (6)pp., + 11 plates, + (4)pp. One of six A. P. copies. Signed by the contributors: Barbara Hodgson (author, illustrator, and designer), Rollin Milroy (printer), and Claudia Cohen (binder). An exploration, in theory and practice, of the intersection of art and science..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2009. Octavo. (11)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Frontispiece of a couple on a bench hand-pulled, signed, dated, and numbered by Mariko Ando. Created as a celebration of twenty years of marriage, the book reproduces the fifth "Knee Play" from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's celebrated opera..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Octavo. (8)ff. From an edition of fifty, all signed by the author, this is copy number one of ten containing a frontispiece linocut portrait of the author by Andrea Taylor, signed and numbered by the artist, as well as a photo etching of Reid from..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2004. Square small octavo. (18)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the author/artist, Kara Sievewright, at the colophon. A collection of short stories originally published as zines. Each story—"A Small Shimmer of Things," "The Girl with the Mask of a Crow," and "The City of the..... More
(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..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Quarto. (5)ff. The printer's copy, signed by the contemporary Canadian artist Charles van Sandwyk. With six tipped-in etchings, five from the artist's earliest period, plus one executed for this work. A brief essay about etching by van Sandwyk accompanies the artwork. Printed on sumptuous cream-colored paper..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2020. 16mo. (18)ff. One of thirty-six copies. Signed by the calligrapher. A celebration of books and letters, with each sheet printed from reproductions of William Rueter's calligraphy with polymer plates, then with embellishments added by hand. Quotations on the sustaining power of books on each sheet..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2010. Quarto. (13)ff. One of sixty copies. Signed by the artist at colophon, as well as on verso of each pigment print. The prints have been hand-touched with watercolor and are individually enclosed in over-beaten abaca paper folios on which twelve poems written by..... More
(Santa Barbara, CA): Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. Octavo volume and strand of ten paper prayer flags. (22)ff., + 20ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist. Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether. Written..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2000. One of fifty copies. Twelve prints from Heebner's Isla Negra series of paintings appear in the center of trifolded sheets, with twelve of Neruda's poems of the sea tipped in on either side: the original Spanish at the right, and Alastair Reid's English..... More
(N.p. Golden Cockerel Press, 1981). One of three known copies of Josef Herman's lithographs, gathered as a suite and intended to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press's final book. The book was never published and the lithographs languished until their discovery some twenty years later. Printed in blue and black, the..... More
(London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934). From an edition of 275 copies, this is one of approximately twenty-five specially bound as a scarce deluxe edition, with an extra suite of six erotic engravings. Eight copper-engraved chapter headpieces by Gertrude Hermes evoke the sensuousness and rhythm of the text. Translated from the..... More
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). More
Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008. Folio. 79pp. One of 250 printed in softback at Northend Creative Print in Sheffield. Vibrantly illustrated with various papers from the collection from a variety of locations and eras. Preface by Colin Harris and Foreword by Mirjam Foot. Covers replicate marbled paper from Tirzah (Garwood)..... More
1998. Relief engraving. Donald Hall, who served as 14th Poet Laureate of the United States from 2006-2007 and to whom this copy is inscribed, was the model for Ecclesiastes. Signed by the artist. AP. Framed. (17 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.). More
(Paris: Perrigot-Masure, c. 1922). Framed sheet of handmade paper with a chiaroscuro watermark portrait of Dard Hunter as a young man, based on a photograph by Clara Ragna Johnson. To the left, his name is lettered in the style characteristic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Sheets of this handmade..... More
(Vienna): Jugend & Volk Wien Verlag, (1969). Oblong quarto. 210pp. One of 99 copies, signed and numbered by the artist, Wolfgang Hutter. Bound-in are three original lithographs, also signed and numbered by Hutter. An essay on the style of the Austrian neosurrealist artist, followed by a catalog of his works..... More
(France): 1883. Miniature-sized illuminated manuscript on vellum of a Mass for the Virgin Mary. The volume begins with a full-page miniature of the Virgin and her husband Joseph surrounding and blessing a church official, in the company of an awed congregation. The manuscript itself is replete with elaborate borders, unique..... More
