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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(Albany: Print Club of Albany), 1989. Broadside measuring 15 by 19 inches. One of 100 copies, signed by the artist. The Print Club of Albany's Annual Print for 1988-1989, it's 55th Presentation Print. This lithograph is the last of a series of prints by Dallman that explores industrial and residential..... More
Santa Ana, CA: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. (40)ff., frenchfold. One of 250 copies signed by the author/artist and distributed by Dawson's Bookshop. Contains 32 portraits taken from woodcuts, pen and ink, brush drawings, and other media, made over a course of fifty years. The frontispiece, a woodcut of Lincoln, was..... More
Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1985. Octavo. (28)pp., frenchfold. One of 100 copies printed in black and brown. "A warm, witty, wry collection of observations by famous (& infamous) writers who 'draw the line in such a way as to define themselves.'" (Prospectus). This charming little book is printed in..... More
Tuscaloosa: Legacy Press, 2000. Octavo. x, 154pp., + 5 specimens. One of 130 copies, signed by both Baker and DePol at the colophon. Replete with reproductions of DePol's many pattern designs, both for his papers and from engravings. Baker's accompanying text, which includes a biographical sketch, provides necessary context, both..... More
Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1984. Octavo. (18)pp. One of 100 copies. Highly illustrated with wood engravings printed in blue and black, including a frontispiece of Pickering and various printer's devices. Afterword by the printer, John Anderson. Example of Pickering's work tipped in. Bound in blue wrappers with decorative paper..... More
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Library, 1980. Quarto. 19pp. One of 90 copies. This book, printed in two colors, was produced in honor of Anderson's 65th birthday, is illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol, and includes contributions from seven people, including DePol, Claire Van Vliet and Harry Volk, Jr. Trace..... More
Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1986. Octavo. xvi, 39pp., + 4ff. of samples. One of 150 copies. Inscribed at the colophon by DePol and the printer, Neil Shaver, to Alan Dietch. A colorful selection of DePol's woodcut patterns presented as zinc engravings and, at the appendix, as tip-ins. As..... More
Paris: Moreau, (1983). Oblong 12mo. (26) pp. Illustrated by Baltazar. From an edition of 220 copies, this is one of forty signed by the author and by the illustrator, and hand-colored. Reproduced entirely by serigraphy, the text is from the author's own manuscript. The abstract black and white illustrations have..... More
NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989. Folio. (32)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Susan Weil. Throughout the text are scattered collages, cut papers, and etchings that work together to create an interactive, multimedia experience for the reader, who thus physically engages with the work in a manner..... More
Paris: Chez F.-L. Schmied, (1929). Quarto. (126)pp. One of 150 copies, signed by Schmied. Illustrated throughout with color wood engravings, executed in tones of brown, orange, and blue, including twelve full-page illustrations, each one signed by Schmied. This is a work that Ward Ritchie called "ingenious in its design, one..... More
Coaraze: Les Editions Coaraze, 1955. 16mo. 30, (2)pp., + 3 inserted plates. From an edition of twenty-four copies, this is one of twelve printed on Alfa Ivoire paper and labeled for a month of the year. Signed by Arman, the illustrator, on the colophon page. Arman's contributed plates offer a...... More
Paris: Didot, Typographie de Firmin, (c. 1810). 124pp. Eight engravings on beige paper. The absurd adventures of Pierrot, born from a turkey's egg to La Fee Gourmande, and dedicated to gourmandise from that moment on, until his gluttony proves too much and dooms him. In a later binding of brown..... More
Paris: Jacques-François Chereau, (c. 1747). Large folio. (1), (25)ff., plates. A reissue or reimpression published after the artist, Charles-Antoine Coypel, was named "Premier Peintre du Roi" in 1747; this series of twenty-five engravings was first presented as a deluxe portfolio in Paris, in 1724. The engravings were done after a...... More
N.P. n.d. Black & white photograph measuring 4 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches. A posed portrait showing a younger William Addison Dwiggins, likely in his early 40s, standing in front of a garden holding a hoe. The photographer is credited on the verso as C. H. Marble. Very fine. More
(Hingham, MA): c. 1930s. A black & white photograph of a marionette made by W. A. Dwiggins, measuring 10 by 10 1/2 inches. The marionette is a likeness of F. Morton Smith, a Boston lawyer who was married to Margaret Coatsworth, the sister of the children's book author and illustrator..... More
San Giacomo di Veglia, Italy: Blue Print Press, 2018. Folio. (8)ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist, Sabrina Frison, whose three etchings appear on the covers, two on the front and one on the back. A robust and suitably rugged edition of Dylan's lyrics, printed in Rockwell and..... More
Washington, D.C. Corcoran College of Art + Design, 2014. Quarto. (17)ff. spreads, accordionfold. One of ten copies, signed by Kwon. Letterpress printed, lithograph illustrations. Kwon's graphically and physically substantial concertina grapples with the immediate and generational trauma of the mid-century South Korean authoritarian government's oppression of dissent. Between 1945 and..... More
(Istanbul: Ebristan, 2004). Marbled paper with calligraphy measuring 23 3/4 by 32 inches. Ebru, or marbling, is one of the oldest arts in Turkey. In addition to being used in book binding and design, it was often used as a background for calligraphy and is considered high art. In this..... More
(Istanbul): Ebristan, 2008. Original marbled paper art by Turkey's premier paper marbler, Hikmet Barutçugil, with dusky swirls of pale peach, green, blue, and mauve. Signed and dated by the artist. Emerging from the center of the marbling is a small, detailed drawing in brown ink of the entrance archway to..... More
(Istanbul: Ebristan, c. 2003). Original marbled paper by the premier marbling artist in Turkey, Hikmet Barutçugil. Signed by the artist. Barutçugil has developed his own technique for creating flowers within his marbled patterns, inspired by his wife, Füsun Hanim. In this delicate example, two carnations grow from the same root..... More
(Istanbul): Ebristan Yayinlari, 2003. Original marbled paper by the premier marbling artist in Turkey, Hikmet Barutçugil. Signed and dated by the artist. Ebru, or marbling, is one of the oldest arts in Turkey. In addition to being used in book binding and design, it was often used as a background..... More
(Istanbul: Ebristan, 2008). Marbled paper measuring 23 3/4 by 32 inches, with elegant marbled calligraphy in Arabic. The script translates to say "One who conducts business in a Halal fashion is the beloved servant of Allah." This superb example of Ebru, the ancient Turkish art of paper marbling, has a...... More
(N.p.): 1961. 24mo. (16)ff. One of twenty copies. Signed and inscribed by the artist—an unidentified "Gill"—at the colophon. Woodcut illustrations throughout provide crude yet evocative portraits of the main characters in T. S. Eliot's acclaimed (and much-adapted) Practical Cats. The woodcuts, though perhaps rudimentary in technical execution, cleverly reflect the..... More
(N.p.): 1837. Silk threads of many colors embroidered on woven linen. Within a frame of continuous vines are, at top, various executions of the alphabet, in upper and lower cases. Sarah Shaw then attributes her work to herself and dates it, and includes four lines from Hymn 43 by Isaac..... More
Claremont, CA: Scripps College Press, 2015. Square small octavo. Unpaginated. One of 102 copies. Created by the students in the fall 2015 Typography class at Scripps College, the book anthologizes narratives of cars, car culture, and the political and social power cars have and represent. The students' sections converse with..... More
