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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(N.p.): Fantod Press, 1992. First separate editions. One of 500 sets of two books, each signed by Gorey. Both volumes fine, together in the original envelope which only shows minor soiling to upper flap. (Toledano A107). 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
(N.p.): Fantod Press, 1995. First edition. One of 500 copies, signed by Gorey. "There is a moral to this fable of an unknown vegetáble." Fine in illustrated wrappers. (Toledano A114a). More
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1963. Three oblong octavo volumes. (34); (58); (66)pp. First edition. A complete set of three books, intended to "instruct, appall and amuse." It includes The Insect God and The West Wing, as well as the first appearance of The Gashleycrumb Tinies, one of Gorey's most beloved... 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. Fine. (Toledano A84a). More
1990. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Gorey. Set of twelve postcards, housed in original illustrated envelope. With scenes including those of a lone shoe resting on a staircase, a frying pan on the edge of a table, and a small bottle standing on a mantle piece... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1962. First edition. Signed by Gorey. According to the copyright page: "A somewhat more explicit version of this book appeared in Holiday under the title THE IMPRUDENT EXCURSION." General toning to edges and spine, some rubbing to corners and edges of wrappers, else very good. (Toledano A10a). More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963. First edition. Signed by Gorey on the title page. With verse, and with fourteen illustrations in three delicate colors and black, Gorey tells the tale of three carefree children and a Beast. In illustrated boards with lightly soiled dust wrapper that shows some toning to the spine... More
London: Gogmagog Press, (1965-66). Four small octavo volumes, each (26)pp. One of 100 copies printed on Hosho paper, signed by the artist/printer Morris Cox. Each volume contains a colorful panorama of nature printed from heavily textured blocks, which give the offset prints an embossed effect. The changing seasons appear in... More
Nappanee: Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1982. Octavo. 71pp. One of 65 copies written, printed, and bound by James Lamar Weygand. Hagreen, who worked between 1918 and 1959, was a fine wood engraver who studied with Eric Gill. Illustrated with 118 bookplates designed by Hagreen and printed in a.... More
(Boston): Boston Public Library/Society of Printers, 2001. Octavo. First edition. One of 500 copies. Thirty-two pages of color and black & white illustrations from photographs. The story of Dorothy Abbe's contributions to printing, book design, typography, photography, writing, and teaching is gathered from her archives at the Boston Public Library... More
Hingham, MA: (Püterschein-Hingham Press), 1956. Octavo. (32)pp. Proofreader's copy, inscribed by the printer/designer, Dorothy Abbe. Abbe was a student and close friend of designer William Addison Dwiggins, with whom she lived and worked in Hingham, Massachusetts from 1950 to 1956. She became a lifelong advocate of his work after his... More
Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1931. Octavo. (256)pp. From an edition of 140, this is one of 125 copies on Pannekoek paper. All plates are signed by the illustrator, John Buckland Wright, and the publisher, A. A. M. Stols has signed on the colophon page. This is the third book bearing Buckland... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895). Three octavo volumes. 399; 412; 421pp. One of 250 copies. Ornate wood-engraved double-page opening in Volume I and initials and borders throughout the three volumes by William Morris. In a letter to a friend in 1855, William Morris wrote that he had just been reading Shelley's... More
(Santa Cruz): Lime Kiln Press, 1981. Folio. 37pp. One of 115 copies printed, illustrated, and signed by William Everson. This book was Everson's final offering as Master Printer of the Lime Kiln Press. Illustrated with two woodcuts, and printed in black with red and blue initials on paper specially made... More
Petrograd: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, (1920). Framed poster measuring 19 inches by 26 inches. This two-color lithograph was printed in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) by the Petrograd State Publishing House and shows a man and a woman reading books while a hammer rests against the man's leg and more books lay in... More
![Car Nikita. Pohádka [Tsar Nikita. A Fairy Tale]. Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.](/pictures/thumb/25558.jpg?v=1436303621)
Prague: Kamilla Neumannová, 1928. Octavo. One of 100 hand-colored copies. Pushkin's bawdy and satirical fairy tale about Tsar Nikita and his forty daughters has been translated into Czech by Lala Gallová, and is illustrated throughout with bright hand-colored illustrations by R. Sirotský. The images are done in a bold folkloric... More
(France: H. Rousseau, c. 1846-8). A set of three hand-colored wooden jigsaw puzzles lithographed by J. Froment and measuring 13 by 10 inches (33x25cm). Each puzzle is illustrated with six portraits of European rulers, in full regalia, with detailed jewels, orders, decorations, and crowns. Among the countries represented are Portugal... More
Hamburg: Raamin-Presse, 1976. Quarto. (40)pp. From an edition of 170, this is one of twenty copies with an additional two plates signed and numbered by the printer and illustrator, Roswitha Quadflieg. Translated into German from the original French by Elmar Tophoven, the short story "L'Expulsé" ("The Expelled") first appeared in... More
(Hamburg): Raamin-Presse, 1977. Quarto. 24pp. From an edition of 120 numbered copies signed by the artist/printer, Roswitha Quadflieg, this is one of forty copies printed in English, and from those forty, this is also one of ten with an extra signed etching. The text is from Adventures in the Skin... More
1993. Broadside measuring 19 1/2 by 27 1/2 inches. Original lithograph printed in five colors, and signed by the designer, Klaus Raasch. The broadside shows the words "Wir treiben's bunt!" ("We're doing it all!") under which five creatures work together to roll ink onto a printing plate. This image was... More
Tarzana, CA: Pennyweight Press, 1982. 44pp. One of an edition of 100 copies hand-colored and signed by Barbara Raheb. From the Fine Art Series. By the "Golden Age," Raheb means the nineteenth-century world of printing, binding, and illustration, with emphasis on Morris, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Art Nouveau. Contains ten plates... More
(Cambridge): Rampant Lions Press, 1989. Octavo. (18)ff. From an edition of 500 copies, this is one of twenty signed by the author. Illustrated with four charming three-color linocuts, plus a single-color vignette, by Clare Melinsky. This essay, at turns both humorous and earnest, meanders through the various pleasures and vexations... More
(Vienna: c. 1810). Single folio sheet, on which is printed twenty rebus cards, to be cut out. Each card has a very fine hand-colored stipple engraving. A few examples are: a man bowing before a statue of Cupid, a sunset, three children sledding, and Napoleon sitting on an upper-case “B.”... More
Boston: 1888. (5)ff. Hand-written rebus with cut-out illustrations pasted on the letterhead of "Howard Gannett, Publisher and Bookseller." Provides humorous prescriptions for obtaining and retaining good health, which include "Sleep without boots near an open (window)" and "Rise before you wake up-- early before the (stars) have gone." The result... More
