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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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
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1974. Two oblong octavo volumes. (58); (58)pp. Second printing is signed by Gorey. A delightfully written alphabet of adverbs. First edition is very good in orange pictorial boards, somewhat rubbed at corners, with matching dust wrapper, not price-clipped, which shows some edgewear, toning to the spine, and..... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1980. Octavo. (32)ff. Reissue. Signed by Gorey. "An undiluted tragedy with a generous population of foul Small Creatures and a wickedly pleasurable Surprise for non-admirers of Miss Burnett." Some rubbing to extremities of book, else near fine. In original purple dust wrapper, which shows some shelf-toning and..... 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
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1977. First edition. One of 250 copies, signed by Gorey. "This book may well prove to be its author's most unpleasant ever." Spine lightly toned, else fine in a price-clipped, minorly soiled dust jacket. Housed in a black slipcase. (Toledano A67b). More
NY: Doubleday, 1958. First edition. Gorey's fourth book, "A Moral Tale about Nothing-at-All." Signed by Gorey. Near fine, showing trace edgewear to pictorial boards. In original dust wrapper, very good, soiled and with some tears along edges. (Toledano A4a). More
Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1989. (49)pp. First edition. From an edition of 400 copies signed by Gorey, this is one of 110 comprising the deluxe issue, with twenty-nine illustrations hand-colored by him in silver and gold metallic paint. An homage to Isaac Watts, Gorey's text is obscurely akin to..... More
NY: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1964. 16mo. (32)pp. First edition. "It now declines in fretful curves Among the pickles and preserves." Minor soiling, otherwise near fine in printed wrappers. (Toledano A17a). More
NY: Fantod Press, 1966. First edition. One of 500 sets of three books: The Inanimate Tragedy, The Evil Garden, and The Pious Infant. Each volume signed, two as Mrs Regera Dowdy, one of Gorey's anagrams. All three volumes are near fine with only trace bumps to few corners, and housed..... More
1989. First edition. One of 250 sets of twelve postcards, this copy printed out of series and inscribed by Gorey. The tragedies depicted in topiary form include vehicular manslaughter, a human cannonball, and a child being carried away by a dog. Minor spotting to a few cards, else fine, housed..... More
(N.p.): Fantod Press, 1995. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Gorey. "There is a moral to this fable of an unknown vegetáble." Fine in illustrated wrappers. (Toledano A114a). More
NY: Meredith Press, 1967. First edition. "From Ampoo to Zote", this alphabet offers "an improbable menagerie for Sunday's child." Upper portion of boards foxed, slight splay to upper cover, else very good in very good dust wrapper. (Toledano A26a). More
NY: Congdon & Weed, 1982. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The tale relates a "curious culinary adventure...and an instance of startling Sensibility," complete with familiar Gorey characters in fur coats and patterened frocks. In original dust wrapper, slightly rubbed and faintly toned. A near fine book in very good wrappers..... More
NY: Holiday House, 1984. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The curious tale of young Treehorn's discovery of a genie in an urn and the consequences of his wishes. Bound in teal cloth over boards. Upper board somewhat splayed. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. More
NY: Everest House, (1982). First edition. Copy A of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the author, Felicia Lamport, and the artist, Edward Gorey. Additionally, this copy has been inscribed by Lamport to Abe Lerner on the front endpaper. Comic verse on many subjects, with appropriate illustrations. Extremely fine in cloth..... More
NY: Everest House, (1982). First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by the author, Felicia Lamport, and the artist, Edward Gorey. Comic verse on many subjects, with appropriate illustrations. Fine in white cloth, with a gilt-stamped design by Gorey, housed in a green slipcase. (Toledano B69b). More
NY: Young Scott Books, (1969). First edition. Signed by Gorey, with full-page illustration. Near fine in pictorial boards and good dust wrapper with edgewear and mild toning to spine. More
NY: Young Scott, 1968. First edition. Signed by Gorey. The first poem in Lear's Book of Nonsense, adorned with illustrations, which Gorey dedicated to Foss, Lear's celebrated cat. Scant wear to extremities of pictorial boards, fine. Some toning and minor rubbing to matching dust wrapper. (Toledano B38a). More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, (n.d.). Small singe-folded quarto. A color illustration of a man hugging a book as he looks on the upturned feet of a figure just fallen off a cliff. Fine. More
NY: Young Scott Books, 1970. Oblong octavo. (40)pp. First edition. Signed by Gorey on the title page. An imaginative exploration of why the night is dark, printed in orange, black, and white. The text was written in collaboration with Peter Neumeyer. Dust jacket shows the slightest some soiling at edges..... More
NY: Chelsea House, (1965). Octavo. 47pp. Miss Phypps' "simple rules of propriety and common sense" tell a girl what to say when deflowered on a blind date, at a seance, by a marimba player, on an American Express tour, etc. Rubbing to extremities of pictorial boards, else very good. More
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. More
San Francisco: Word Play Publications, 1996. First edition. One of 226 copies, signed by Gorey and by the authors. This illustrated reference work includes ephemera and collectibles, dramatic productions, a list of pseudonyms, and more. The first true Gorey bibliography. Bound in cloth-covered boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1973). Two square octavo volumes. 30pp. Both signed by Gorey. Printed in blue ink. A children's language-arts schoolbook with whimsical illustrations throughout by Edward Gorey, collecting limericks by Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Gorey himself, and many others. The unexpurgated edition features two limericks and one illustration missing..... More
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. First edition. Signed by Gorey. A delightful comedy of errors, headed by the clumsy Flemming Flanders. Holt Library Edition, bound in pictorial boards. Faint bumps to corners and creasing at hinges, else near fine in very good dust wrapper. More
