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Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1981. 48pp. One of 300 copies signed by Jane Bernier. With hand-colored illustrations. Mild edgewear, else near fine in leather-backed marbled boards. (Bradbury, p. 34). (3/4 by 5/8; 20x15mm). More
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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Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1981. 48pp. One of 300 copies signed by Jane Bernier. With hand-colored illustrations. Mild edgewear, else near fine in leather-backed marbled boards. (Bradbury, p. 34). (3/4 by 5/8; 20x15mm). More
(London): Fortune Press, (1922). One of 100 deluxe copies with a limited, signed color etching. Warmly inscribed by Jean de Bosschère, "with greetings of spiritual brotherhood." With a color frontispiece, twenty-one full-page plates printed in black & white and sanguine, and numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The volume opens..... More
(Concord, MA: Sign of the Vine, 1903). Four volumes: two 16mo. and two 32mo. (8)ff.; 19pp.; (8)ff.; (5)ff. Printed in black and red. Each volume, with the exception of Rabbi Ben Ezra, has a wood-engraved frontispiece and title page. The title page of Rabbi Ben Ezra features a geometric design..... More
Manteno, IL: Bronte Press, 1988. (12)ff. One of 100 copies, signed and colored by the artist. Contains quotations about gardening from Bacon, Addison, Thoreau, Anacreon, and others, with eight hand-colored illustrations. Fine in green leather, gilt. (2 1/2 by 2 7/8; 54x72mm). More
Manteno, IL: Bronte Press, 1991. (32)pp. One of 70 copies, signed by editor and illustrator Elmira Smith Wilkey. Full-page handcolored illustrations throughout vibrantly illuminate the fantasy of the fable. Errata slip bound in. Fine in blue paper over boards with paper label and ribbon. (2 1/8 by 2 7/8; 55x72mm)..... More
Manteno, IL: Brontë Press, 1995. (17)pp. One of 55 copies, signed and numbered by Prutchnicki, who, in addition to authoring and illustrating the book, printed it and hand-colored it in conjunction with Paul Prutchnicki. A loving and lovely perspective of the San Xavier Mission, the gardens and architectural details of..... More
(Portland, OR: Vela Noche, 2010). Folio. (17)ff. One of thirty copies, this one being out of series. Fourteen of Lauren Henkin's photographs make up the majority of the book, with Kirsten Rian's poem, "Fieldnotes," appearing on the penultimate page. The poem, from which the book's title derives, meditates with equal..... More
(London: 1942-1946). Three oblong quarto volumes; 25; 27; 21ff. Two are Whatman series A30 sketch books, originally containing 30 leaves, and have been titled "Girls in Undress" and "Figures" by Buckland Wright; the third is a Reeves branded book which also formerly contained 30 leaves. All are bound in the..... 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 the colophon page. This is the third book bearing Buckland Wright's..... More
San Francisco: Amber House Press, 1964. Small quarto. (42)pp. First edition of Corrington's third published book of poetry. Illustrated with drawings by Ann Parisi, printed in silver, including a stylized skeleton across the covers. With an Introduction and cover blurb by Charles Bukowski. Printed by Frank Westlake at the Bindweed..... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 1995. 16mo. (vi)pp., + (17)ff. One of 90 copies. Signed by Eckmair at the colophon. A collection of sixteen of Eckmair's woodcut illustrations, all evincing his keen ability to capture the nuances of light and dark. With a Foreword by Fred Norton and an Introduction by..... More
(Ogdensburg, NY): Caliban Press, 1989. Octavo. (iii), 15pp. One of 125 copies, signed by both the author and the artist. With three full-page and two tailpieces in full color by Ely, who lucidly emphasizes the psychedelic and geometric motifs of Berrigan's short story. Designed, printed, and bound by Caliban proprietor..... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2007. Square 24mo. (8)pp., accordionfold. One of 200 copies. The jumblies in their famous seive, with holes in the appropriate places, on a colored etching, which is printed on a movable piece of paper affixed to the fifth panel. With red paper covered and housed in..... More
(N.p. 1989). Small quarto. 10ff. A one-of-a-kind manuscript, completely hand-bound, lettered, painted, and signed by the artist Nancy Leavitt. Leavitt's superlative skill as a calligrapher is clear in this illustration of Suzanne Vega's song of loss and unrequited love, "Calypso." Vega retells the beginning of the Odyssey from the perspective..... More
London: Ken Campbell, 1990. Large quarto. 39ff. One of forty copies. Printed by Campbell in polychrome letterpress and handwork. From the artist's website: ‘EXECUTION’ plots the dismantling of a diagram (after Tschichold) that establishes a possible disposition of text on a page. The elements of the diagram are made from..... More
London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. Elephant folio. xvi, 44pp., + 50 facsimile drawings. One of 500 copies. A keen catalogue and academic exposition on Canaletto's corpus, cleverly blending biography and art criticism. Booklet bound in full brown cloth, gilt stamped. With portfolio housed in brown Solander box backed in brown..... More
NY: Knopf, 1933. Octavo. (12)pp. First edition thus. Signed by von Schmidt at the colophon. von Schmidt executed twelve ink drawings for the publication, each bridging his own iconic visions of the American West with the pre-Raphaelite style the book's mise-en-page presents. Printed in black and orange. Bound in tan..... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1987. Small quarto. (28)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by Sarah Chamberlain. Beautifully illustrated with color linoleum cuts by Chamberlain, many of which cover three-quarters of a page. All are printed with the rhymes within a color decorated border. Very fine in blue cloth-backed boards. More
(Portland, OR: Chamberlain Press, 1980-85). A collection of 105 engravings, all signed and numbered in pencil by Sarah Chamberlain. These hail from her major publications printed in the early 1980s via the Chamberlain Press: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1979), A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1981), Beasts from Belloc..... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1982. Small octavo. (20)ff. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist, Sarah Chamberlain. Contains eleven whimsical poems by Hilaire Belloc, illustrated with seventeen wood engravings cut and hand-colored by Chamberlain. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal in patterned boards, with a morocco spine stamped in black. Fine..... More
(Watertown): Anne & David Bromer, 1979. 19ff. One of 125 copies. Signed by the artist, Sarah Chamberlain. Contains fifteen of Chamberlain's intricate engravings of exotic animals such as the panda, koala, Siberian tiger, and platypus. Printed on Troya paper in two colors. A very fine copy in the second binding..... More
(Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1974). Folio. (8)ff. One of forty copies signed by the artist, Sarah Chamberlain. Contains five tipped-in original etchings illustrating this amusing tale. According to Barry Moser, Chamberlain was a student at Hampshire College at the time, and while taking a figure drawing class with him became..... More
1977. A delightful 15 by 11-inch painting of a large gnarled tree, its branches forming a leafy canopy over a portion of meadow grown thick with green grasses and pink thistle. The tree is painted with a wooden sign nailed crookedly to its trunk, bearing the artist's signature and date..... More
Montpelier, VT: E.P. Walton, c. 1835. 32mo. 16pp. (wrappers included in pagination). Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Contains three short narratives likely crafted around an existing illustration, each intended to instill a lesson to guide morals and behavior in young readers. Walton published in Montpelier in two distinct periods: between 1835..... More
Boston: Sold by Booksellers and Stationers, 1855. 24mo. 8pp. Illustrated with eight wood engravings all of which relate to the text passages appearing below them. These passages feature longer words broken out into syllables to aid young readers in their quest to expand their vocabulary. According to the wrappers, this..... More