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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(Easthampton, MA): Warwick Press, 1987. Quarto. (4)pp., accordion-fold. One of twenty copies signed by Carol Blinn, who wrote, illustrated, and printed this book. A poem by Blinn is accompanied by a watercolor illustration that extends across the central page spread, depicting three yellow balls floating on a cerulean pool surrounded... More
c. 1924. An original drawing in india ink and watercolor, measuring 17 1/8 by 11 1/4 inches (43x28.6cm). Executed early in Rex Whistler's career, when the artist was about nineteen years old, and likely during the period that he was finishing his studies at the Slade School of Fine Art... More
London: Faber & Faber, (1933). First edition. One of only 60 copies printed on English hand-made paper, signed by the author. With engraved title page, three tinted full-page plates and black & white headpieces by Rex Whistler. Collects seven of de la Mare's fantasy stories for children. A brilliant copy... More
London: Art & Technics, 1948. Small quarto. 103pp. First edition. Illustrated with fifty black & white plates, and many smaller drawings throughout the text. A biography of, and tribute to, the famed illustrator Rex Whistler, who was the author's older brother. Bound in gilt-stamped olive green cloth. Covers slightly bowed... More
Gloucestershire, UK: Whittington Press & Acorn Press, (1983). Folio. xvi, 68pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with a large photographic frontispiece depicting the artist at work, and with an autobiographical introduction. The book consists primarily of examples of Weissenborn's engravings, followed by a catalogue. Bound in tan buckram with an... More
(Andoversford, Gloucestershire / London): Whittington Press / Acorn Press, 1977. Oblong folio. (43)pp. One of 60 copies. Illustrated with twenty-one hand-colored linocuts on the rectos of each page, and quotations about the ruins on the facing versos. The ruins depicted are both ancient and modern, including the Great Wall of... More
Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, (1977). Large quarto. (26)ff. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the author-illustrator. A collection of ten poems and ten etchings by Judy Ling Wong, beautifully printed on heavy Fabriano Roma handmade paper. Wong printed the etchings, which are in black, in her own studio; each one... More
(Vienna: c. 1903). 9 7/8 by 8 1/4 inches. (11)ff. Contains nine early hand-tinted photographs, matted in brown cardboard and bound in. The front endpaper is inscribed "Karniow / August - September 1903." The photographs show a family on vacation by a lake, horseback riding, and in elaborate local costume... More
Vienna: Anton Schroll, c. 1903-1910. Two volumes in three small quarto portfolios. 192; 32pp. First volume loose and second volume accordionfold, as issued. Full run of Die Fläche, or The Surface, a periodical produced by members of the Wiener Werkstätte to showcase and disseminate the work created in the Workshops... More
(Vienna: Wiener Werkstatte, 1912). Quarto. (13)ff. The Twelve Months of the Year. With 13 sheets, each 29.7 x 22 cm, compromising twelve color lithographs for the months of the year, and one sheet depicting the four seasons. The prints are from illustrations by Franz von Zulow. Each of the monthly... More
Austin: Book Club of Texas, 1993. Broadside measuring 14 by 20 inches. Printed by the Wind River Press. Includes a quotation from J. Frank Dobie's "Some Part of Myself" (1967), and an illustration by Teresa Avini. The main image, printed in a dark purple, shows cowboys silhouetted against a night... More
(Jena: Eugen Diederichs), 1925. Octavo. 28ff. From an edition of 800 copies, this is one of 100 signed by the illustrator. With twenty-five full-page illustrations from drawings by Wolf depicting a wide and disturbing array of monsters. Wolf, who studied under Hans Thoma, fled Germany in 1938, settling in the... More
(c. 1947). Folio. 15ff., loose, as issued. A set of twelve proof illustrations, each labeled as such in pencil, plus a title page and Table of Contents, for an edition of Psalms by Gustav Wolf. The artist's watercolor sketches were in the process of being transferred to engraved blocks when... More
(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). One of 50 copies, of which this is one of 40 printed during Gorey's lifetime and signed by him. An etching featuring Gorey's original character, the figbash, which first appeared in The Raging Tide, or, the Black Doll's Imbroglio. The figbash is shown here balancing... More
(Zurich: Diogenes, 1975). Original etching. One of 120 copies. Signed by Gorey. The etching depicts a young girl dressed for exercise, grasping dumbbells and standing over a mattress. To her left, her "friend," a large lizard-like creature with short arms, leans against gymnastic rings. Image measures approximately 4 by 5... More
(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). Original etching. One of 50 copies, this being one of 34 copies printed during Gorey's lifetime and signed by him. The image features the fabled Nessie swimming through the waves of Loch Ness. A bright moon illuminates the otherwise shadowy scene. Image measures 4 1/4... More
(NY: Gotham Book Mart). From an edition of 776 copies, this is one of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Gorey. A color lithograph produced by the Gotham Book Mart, this print is untitled but is often referred to as "Man with Cats." The reason for this title is immediately apparent... More
Two modern posters, with alphabet themes, containing: "Jerry Pallotta's Alphabet Books." Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, (early 1990s). An advertising poster for artist Jerry Pallotta's alphabet books, measuring 24 1/2 by 19 1/4 inches (622x489mm) and showing the full cover for "The Extinct Alphabet Book," published in 1993. A list of... More
(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). Original etching. One of 95 copies, signed by Gorey. The image features a gymnastic elephant balanced on his front legs, his ears waving gracefully behind him. Elephants held special meaning for Gorey, who named his house Elephant House, after an elephant-shaped toilet he found on... More
1994. Poster for the 18th Annual International Antiquarian Boston Book Fair. The upper main illustration depicts a cat turning the page of a large book, in the company of a houseplant. At the bottom of the poster, the cat reappears in five different poses atop and inside of books. Soiling... More
(Brewster, MA: Atelier Emily Trevor). From an edition of fifty copies, this is one of only twenty-four issued during Gorey's lifetime, with his original pencil signature below the image. An etching showing a very Gorey-style still life, with a vase shaped like a skull arranged with vines and elephants. Some... More
(1981). Color poster advertising the second season of the long-running PBS series. Framed by a tombstone, three mustachioed detectives with flashlights follow a woman pushing a wheelchair occupied by a figure swathed in black, while an unshaven thug, holding a teacup, lurks in a doorway. In the sky float a.... More
1995. One of 350 copies signed by Gorey. Promotional poster for the 19th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. The central image features small elephants dancing about books, whose covers and illustrations also feature elephants. Minor bumps to corners and light soiling, else near fine. Measures 19 by 12 3/4 in.; 483 x 324 mm. More
1985. One of twenty-six lettered copies signed by Gorey. Promotional poster for the NYU Undergraduate Drama Department's 1985 production of the play, which Gorey wrote and designed. Gorey's artwork depicts a boy fleeing the presence of an inordinately large tin of the leafy vegetable. Lightly foxed with minor rubbing to... More
N.p. (Thomas McLean, 1810s). Framed, full-color plate of a Turkish warrior from John Heaviside Clark's The Military Costume of Turkey, engraved by F. H. Clark from a drawing by Octavien D'Alvimart. This plate shows a subaltern officer of the janizaries, or janissaries, a division of the Turkish infantry forming the... More
