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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(Nutley, N.J.): Gianettino & Meredith, Inc., 1977. 12mo. (24)pp. From an edition of 275, this is one of fifty lettered copies in a cloth binding, signed by the artist, Jill Karla Schwarz. This humorous holiday list of thirteen "recipes" for turkey was appropriately filed by the author under the heading..... More
NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1987. Quarto. (17)ff. One of 75 copies, signed by the translator, Michael Feingold, and the artist, Neil Welliver, whose five color etchings and double-page fold-out lithograph were printed by Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. The translator served as the lead drama critic for the Village Voice until it..... More
(Wakefield): Fleece Press, 1984. 16mo. 8ff. One of 250 copies. With seven wood engravings by Peter Forster, including cover label. Reprints a passage from Marvell's "The Rehearsal Transpros'd," published in 1672. Fine in marbled wrappers by Mark Whittaker. (Rogerson 6). More
NY: B. Shackman & Co., Inc., 1993. (40)ff. A charming flip book, in which a daring roadster jumps over a bus and six other cars. Bound in illustrated wrappers, all black and white. Minor rubbing to edges and few spots of foxing to top edge, else near fine. (1 1/2..... More
Berkeley, CA: Flying Fish Press, 1990. Innovative both in design and text, this book explores the idioms associated with "home" related words, e.g. house, home, wall, grass, and rug. The text pages are interspersed with half-size pages that match up exactly to change the illustration or text on the full-size..... More
(c. 1965-1975). Folk art chess set and table. This non-traditional chess set is based on the theory of evolution, with dinosaurs facing off against mammals. The field is alternating squares of brown earth and green & blue ponds. The pawns on each side grow through the early evolutionary stages: the..... More
Leipzig: Robert Crayen, n.d. (c. 1830). Two oblong octavo volumes comprising seven parts. (118); (120); (122); (122); (120); 120; (ii), 120; (iv), (124)pp. A collection of sheet music and lyrics for pianoforte gathered from a variety of composers, including Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. This set features wrap-around fore-edge paintings by..... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1899. Three quarto volumes. xxvi, 330pp. From an edition of 268, this is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japon. In addition, this is a unique copy with an extra set of the 126 color photogravure plates printed on white satin and backed in celadon silk. The..... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. Octavo. (iv), 397pp. Eleventh edition. Here, Moore's wildly popular, and subtly pro-Irish nationalism, poem receives an impressive fore-edge painting. The poem's titular heroine stands before her poet suitor, and behind them are Arabesque archways framing an imaginative city in Bukhara. The base..... More
Madrid: Editorial Voluntad, 1927. Quarto. (vi), (121)ff., + 120 plates. Each plate shows a drawing by de Azpiazu, who in each captures the beauties of Spanish architecture, life, and landscape. The Quinteros provide commentary for each, and Serafina Alvarez Quintero contributed the frontispiece portrait of de Azpiazu. The book is..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836-38. Three octavo vols. 304; 304; 304pp. Engraved titles with vignettes, as well as nearly 150 engravings throughout the set. A testament to British literature and artistry, with the poetic pillars of Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Shakespeare, Dryden, Burns, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, and myriad other writers comprising..... More
London: J. Murray, 1778. Octavo. xlv, 256pp. This copy is extra-illustrated with four inserted plates by Bartolozzi, which are printed in bistre. Bound in full vellum by Edwards of Halifax. Both covers are underpainted in black, with a bucolic scene of a couple courting beneath a tree in a park..... More
(Madison, WI: Quercus Press, 1993). Square 12mo. (20)ff. One of twenty-five copies. The first book of the Press. Designed, printed, illustrated and signed by John Carrera. Frost's words are printed on a fold-out panorama, one or two lines at a time. Six pages of original aquatints, with a rich drypoint..... More
NY: Henry Holt, (1928). Small quarto. viii, 58pp. Second (i.e., limited) edition. One of 1,000 copies signed by the author. Illustrated with four full-page woodcuts, each of which is signed in pencil by the artist, J. J. Lankes. These have been inserted and are not included in the pagination. This..... More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a kneeling figure overlooking a view of hills. Spot of foxing, else fine. (Image measures 5 7/8 by 5 13/16 in.; 150x148 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a girl and her woodland entourage. Fine. (Image measures 3 1/2 by 4 1/4 in.; 90x109 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of an agricultural farming village, with bales of hay, thatch-roofed homes, and hills in the background. Fine. (Image measures 4 by 5 in.; 102x128 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a shepherd carrying a lamb, evocative of Gaskin's illustrations for the Kelmscott Press' Shepheardes Calendar. Signed and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Fine. (Image measures 3 11/16 by 2 1/2 in.; 94x63 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on India paper of a woman clambering into bed. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Fine, affixed to mat. (Image measures 3 1/2 by 4 in.; 92x102 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on Japanese paper of a couple in romantic embrace. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Fine, matted. (Image measures 5 1/2 by 2 13/16 in.; 141x71 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on Japanese paper of a woman, fitted out in frock and hat, in white figure against a black background. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by Gaskin. Few spots of inconsequential foxing, else near fine. (Image measures 4 13/16 by 2 3/8 in.; 122x60 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on India paper of two sisters embracing. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Shade of foxing, else near fine. (Image measures 2 7/8 by 1 15/16 in.; 74x50 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a winter storm settling over a tree-embraced homestead. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by Gaskin. Fine. (Image measures 4 by 5 in.; 102x128 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of three geese settled before a fence. Fine. (Image measures 3 9/16 by 3 1/2 in.; 90x89 mm). More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1969. Folio. (70)pp. From an edition of 200 copies, this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner, who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin, nine of which are signed..... More
