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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(Bremen, ME & NY): Red Angel Press, 2002. Octavo. (18)ff. One of 100 copies signed by the printer/illustrator, Ronald Keller, and by Betty Keller, who edited the text. It explores the notion of a correspondence between Hawthorne's and Dickinson's work by presenting these two texts in a single book. Keller's... More
NY: Red Ozier Press, 1981. Broadside measuring 14 by 29 inches. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with a black & white collage by John Digby. Text printed in burgundy and black on gray paper. Fine. (Peich 28). More
San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2003. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Kevin McDermott, who is responsible for the text and photographs, and John Updike, who wrote the Foreword. A visually stunning tour of Gorey's home, with McDermott's writing describing each room and its function, along with anecdotes about... More
NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. One of 300 copies, signed by Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin, and Clifford Ross. Contains an interview with Gorey, conducted by Ross, with analysis by art critic Wilkin and 200 illustrations of Gorey's work. Fine in an illustrated dust wrapper. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. (Toledano, p. 164). 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. Annotated in pencil throughout, front endpaper creased. Bound in cloth-covered... More
NY: Funk and Wagnalls, (1969). Octavo. 42pp. First edition. Signed by both Norman and Molly Rockwell. A story about a bird who composes his own music after hearing a symphony at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. Lavishly illustrated in color and black & white. Fine in gilt-stamped cloth... More
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, (1936). Folio. Six color engravings illustrating Oscar Wilde's text, each signed by the artist and mounted on a 13 by 10-inch off-white matte. This suite of prints, one of only twenty sets, comprises the full set of the engravings that appeared in the edition of the... More
(NY: n.d.). Portrait measures 7 3/4 by 6 inches, printed on a 11 by 7 1/4 inch sheet. The etching shows Clemens with his head resting on the the backs of both hands, and is printed in brown. It has an unfinished quality to it, as though it were a.... More
1942. Original painting, measuring 29 3/4 by 21 1/2 inches, matted and framed. The subject of the painting is the text of the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on August 14, 1941 that provided a framework for U.S.... More
(NY: 1958). 16mo. 20ff. First edition, limited to 60 copies signed by the artist. This copy bears a presentation inscription on the colophon page to Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Illustrated with eighteen compact etchings of babies sleeping, crying, smiling, or being held by their mothers, which... More
NY: Ballantine Books, (1953). First Edition, first hardbound trade issue. Laid in to this copy is Joseph Mugnaini’s original preliminary cover art for the novel, which Bradbury personally owned. The watercolor and sketch work features the same elongated human figure dressed in newspapers and surrounded by flames. Mugnaini collaborated with..... More
Sea Pen Press & Paper Mill: Seattle, 1989. Broadside measuring 14 1/8 by 28 5/16 inches. One of 60 copies, signed by the author. A poem by Thomas Brush printed on black, white, and turquoise-patterned paper created using various techniques for manipulating the paper pulp. Fine. More
Cambridge, MA: Advocate House, 1950. Quarto. 24pp. Volume 134, number one. This is identified as the "Registration Issue" on the front cover, published September, 1950. Features a cover illustration by Edward Gorey, known as "Two Professors," showing two Mr. Earbrass-style characters throwing sticks at two hooded heads on pikes. This... More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First edition. One of 300 copies, signed by Beckett and Gorey. This title is the second and final collaboration between the author and the artist. Design and typography by Ronald Gordon and Dean Bornstein, and illustrated throughout with vignettes by Gorey. A fine copy in... More
NY: Harcourt, Inc., 2002. Small quarto. (71)pp. One of twenty-six lettered copies of a special issue to the first Gorey edition of Belloc's Tales, which were originally published in London in 1907. Gorey's 61 illustrations frame the verses in perfect macabre humor. Belloc's Tales may well have influenced Gorey's own... More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. One of 300 copies, signed by Edward Gorey. A suspenseful, nonsensical tale told in verse and intended “to make all serious men mad, mad, mad, and to amuse children little, little, little.” Faint toning to spine, else fine in illustrated wrappers. (Toledano B49b). More
(N.p.): Scholastic Magazines, 1973. (11)ff. Signed by Gorey. 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. Single half-inch tear to page seven, else near fine. (Toledano B55). 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: Young Scott Books, (1968). First edition. Illustrated by Gorey in two colors and signed by him on the title-page. Fine in printed cloth and with dustwrapper that shows a few stray markes and small tears along extremities. (Toledano B39a). More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1993. First edition. One of 500 copies, marked out of series, signed by John Updike and Edward Gorey. Gorey perfectly illustrates each of Updike's darkly humorous holiday fears, ranging from the unsettling character of "Santa: The Man" to the threat of a Christmas tree toppling over... More
(N.p.): Gotham Book Mart, 1974. First illustrated edition. One of 100 copies, signed by Gorey. In the limited edition green binding and red slipcase. Scant foxing to endpapers, else fine. Together with the first trade edition. One of 1,000 copies. Bump to lower corner, else near fine in illustrated tan... More
(Albany: Print Club of Albany), 1992. Broadside measuring 16 1/2 by 21 inches. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist. The Print Club of Albany's Annual Print for 1991-1992. This lithograph is in honor of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the New World. Prospectus included, with very... More
NY: Random House, 1962. First edition. A very small bug by the name of Van Vleck is yawning, and soon the whole world catches it. Every page is full of Dr. Seuss's (Theodore Geisel's) wacky color illustrations. Scant wear to edges of pictorial boards, else near fine in near fine... More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1934. Two quarto volumes. xvi, 326 ; xvi, 274pp. One of 325 copies. With headlines and chapter headings printed in blue Poliphilus capitals and double-column text in Caslon. Double-page title with architectural frame, which is repeated five times. Features 100 woodcut illustrations by R.J. Beedham and... More
(Northampton, MA): Apiary Press, 1961. Oblong quarto. (10)ff., + single letterpress sheet laid in. One of twenty-five copies signed by the illustrator, Joyce Sills. This copy bears a presentation inscription from Sills to social-realist artist Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda. The colophon notes that the Shahns' son, Ezra, had... More
