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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Austin: Kairos Press, 1986. Folio. (28)pp., + (7)ff. From an edition of 150, this is one of twenty-five copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with seven original monochrome lithographs, one of which is double-page. The prints form a sequence reflecting the progression of the poems, from the sensual woman portrayed... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1990. Tall folio. (32)pp. From an edition of 55, this is one of twenty deluxe copies. Illustrated with ten paper pulp images of Jewish symbols, such as the Star of David, the Torah pointer, and the shofar. The text of the Song of Songs is printed... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2001. Oblong quarto. 18pp., frenchfold. One of forty copies, signed by the artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. An elucidating history of the allure, in Japanese culture, of the "songs" of night insects. Printed in black on sky blue, high-sheen handmade paper flecked with darker blue. Each printed page... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1998. Quarto. 28pp., frenchfold. One of forty copies, signed by the author/artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. This book is inspired by the notion of "nature as art," and was created after Kaldewey spent three months living in a traditional Japanese wooden house in Kyoto, studying the art of... More
(Postenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1987). Folio. (36)pp. One of forty-five copies in a plexiglass binding by Christian Zwang of Hamburg. Signed by the author/artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. With numerous monochromatic and two-tone illustrations. Written, illustrated, designed, and printed by Gunnar Kaldewey as Volume 5 of the Kaldewey Press series. In 1977... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2016. Quarto. (12)ff., + 4 full-page illustrations from watercolors by Gunnar Kaldewey. One of only ten copies comprising the deluxe edition, which is specially bound and adds three original watercolors. The 84th publication of the Kaldewey Press presents a poem by the 12th-century troubadour, Jaufre Rudel... More
Cambridge, MA: Kat Ran Press, 2014. Octavo. (16)pp. One of forty-five copies of the deluxe edition, bound by Sarah Creighton in red and orange paste paper-covered boards, and including two mint stamps designed by the author. Contains fourteen full-color reproductions of collages by Chermayeff -- faces with features crafted from... More
North Andover, MA: Kat Ran Press, 1997. Quarto. (48)pp. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the poet and the artist. First book of the press. Eight poems about burning and firemen, each illustrated with a full-page unique drawing by Kurt Gohde. Ghode creates haunting images of smoke by controlling... More
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Octavo. (iv), 82pp. One of 350 copies. Frontispiece cut after Edward Burne-Jones. Borders and initials by William Morris. This is the second of three medieval romances printed by Morris. In holland-backed blue boards, with faint soiling to boards and some foxing to very edges of text... More
1935. Measuring 13 by 9 1/4 inches, this watercolor bears Kent's signature along with the inscription, "to his friend Charly Mortensen, 1935." Mortensen was the telegraph operator aboard the Hans Egede, the ship on which Kent made two of his three celebrated voyages to Igdlorssuit, Greenland, where he would live... More
Ausable Forks, NY: 1939. Written on one side of Kent's Ausable Forks letterhead, which features a small illustration by the artist printed in red at the head of the page. The letter, dated March 24, 1939, shows Kent's quick wit in replying to a collector: "I can only afford to... More
Kyoto: 1827. Small quarto. 2, 31, 4ff. Illustrated with thirty color wood-block prints by ukiyo-e artist Kawamura Kiho. Kiho, who was also known as Shun, Goitsu, and Chikurikwan, was the adopted son and acknowledged disciple of artist Kawamura Bumpo. Both Bumpo and Kiho are stylistically similar to the the Shijo... More
London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, (1926). 24mo. 92pp. The first in the Dorian Booklets series produced by Collins' Clear-Type Press and designed by Jessie M. King, which features elaborately illustrated endpapers, title pages, and text borders, printed in orange, tan, and black. The endpapers in this volume depict a.... More
(Mt. Vernon, NY): 1979. A mixed-media sculpture, signed and dated by the artist. Inside a black-painted cigar box is a group of stubby pencils, sharpened to different heights and painted black. The face of a clock, moon-like, is pasted above the pencils. Klebanow was born in Boston in 1915 and... More
Oakland, CA: Peter Rutledge Koch, 1988. Broadside measuring 19 by 26 inches. One of 100 copies printed on Arches cover paper and signed by the author and the artist. This is an interesting piece in that it combines both art and science. The text includes the poem by Michael Rothenberg... More
NY: Ursus Books, 2007. 15pp. From an edition of 74 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by the artist, Joseph Goldyne, and the designer, Peter Rutledge Koch. Illustrated with a signed etching by Goldyne titled "As the Blind Remember," printed on seventeenth-century paper and tipped in as... More
Kyoto: Unsodo, 1891. Oblong folio. (14)ff. Contains twelve woodblock prints in bright colors and gold and silver metallic ink by Taniguchi Kokyo after Ogata Korin in the Rinpa style. Rinpa artists worked in a variety of formats, including screens, fans, and hanging scrolls; the images in this volume include nine... More
Frankfurt: Der Goldene Brunnen, (1961). Small quarto. xxiv, 34pp. One of 150 copies. Signed by the illustrator, Fritz Kredel, and the calligrapher, George Salter, on the colophon. Illustrated with twenty-four hand-colored botanical wood engravings by Kredel, surrounded by verses calligraphed by Salter in German from folk songs and classic poets... More
Berkeley: Peter Koch, (1991). Square 16mo. (34)pp., frenchfold. One of 126 copies. Each letter of this alphabet was printed by Peter Koch from a photo-engraving of the original papercut. Bound by the artist in black cloth-covered stab-sewn boards with title label to front cover, and alphabetic paste-paper paste-downs. Very fine. More
Color lithograph measuring 12 by 9 1/2 inches by Marie Laurencin, a contemporary of Picasso and Braque. Although she was one of a few women artists of the time to experiment with Cubist ideas, her work does not reach the height of abstraction attained by Picasso. Instead, her focus is... More
(N.p. Le Gerbier, 1946). One of 340 copies. Color etching measuring 7 3/4 by 6 1/2 inches by Marie Laurencin, a contemporary of Picasso and Braque, depicting an angel with a small guitar in her lap. Although Laurencin was one of a few women artists of the time to experiment... More
London: Verona Press, (1939). Quarto, (x), 315pp. One of 1,200 copies designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Officina Bodoni. Illustrated with sixteen original color lithographs by Marie Laurencin. Bound in paste-paper-covered boards with a gilt-stamped cloth label on spine. Faintest scattered foxing, minimally affecting a couple of the... More
(France: Mid-13th century). Single leaf measuring 203mm. by 140mm., written in a minute gothic hand in black ink with glosses in red. Text includes the last forty-three verses of Luke and all of the first chapter of John, plus chapter 2, verses 1 through 19. A small miniature at the... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1958. Octavo. 30pp. One of 200 copies printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press. This original leaf from a Book of Hours was likely written and illuminated in Paris during the first portion of the fifteenth century. It bears four initials accented... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1950. Tall quarto. 62pp. One of 300 copies printed by the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. The leaf is from the portion of the Chronicle on the sixth age of the world. It bears two woodcuts on the recto and six... More
