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: Limited Editions Club, (2001). Oblong folio. 73pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with four aquatints by Wilson, printed at the Center Street Studio in Milton, Massachusetts by Jim Stroud. Typography and letterpress printing by David Wolfe of Portland, Maine. The restrained color palettes of John..... More
(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
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1984-2003. Eight volumes. Variously paginated. All of different limitations, but the possibility of this full run is one of 45, designated by the edition for Book Eight. All books signed by Fitzenmeyer and Blinn. The continued collaboration between the two artists resulted in this happy series..... More
NY: Greenwich Books, 1978. Oblong 16mo. (15)pp. One of 276 copies. Signed by the author on colophon. Signed by the illustrator thricely: on colophon, on title page, and on upper cover. A sharp and pessimistic critique of sex and love in the modern age. In black wrappers with an erotic..... More
Paris: Janet, (1816). 24mo. (xi), 402pp. First edition, regular issue. Illustrated with five stippled engravings of Christ and various saints. Engraved title page. An elegant printed book of hours, with sections for saints' days, daily prayers, readings for communion, confession, and a variety of spiritual and mortal events, plus an..... More
Paris: Gruel et Engelmann, 1901. Square 16mo. (iv), 176, (8)pp. A delightfully executed reproduction of a traditional book of hours-cum-devotional, updated to match a more modern, pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. Details, including initials, florals, and flourishes, are hand-gilded, and sumptuous pages favor the Belle Époque's adoration of romantic medievalism. Punctuating the text..... More
Belfast, ME: Borrower's Press, 1985. 32pp. One of 175 copies signed by the publisher, Jane Bernier. Story taken from an American Tract Society miniature book of the 1850's. With hand-colored illustrations. Slight overall rubs, else near fine in blue cloth with hand-colored label, and printed backstrip. (Bradbury, p. 35). (3/4..... More
Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1981. (40)pp. One of 350 copies signed by the artist, Jane Conneen, and by the publisher, Jane Bernier. This is copy number 2. With eighteen hand-colored etchings of wildflowers by Conneen. Very fine in gilt-stamped green leather. A hard-to-find early Borrowers Press gem, the second in..... More
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: 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
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
