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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(Rockport, ME): Gehenna Press, 1998. Folio. (65)pp. From an edition of fifty, this is one of ten deluxe copies, accompanied by a page of Hecht's manuscript, three watercolor drawings by Baskin, one of the original woodcut blocks, and a suite of woodcuts printed in black with several hand-colored by Baskin..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1972. Quarto. (14)ff. One of thirty-five copies. Signed by Baskin at the colophon. Eight etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil, all depicting figures formed after the fashion of Roman boundary markers. These stele, with the exception of the bird marker, preserve perhaps the most human..... More
(Leeds, MA): Gehenna Press, 1989. Quarto. (13)pp, (25)ff. One of thirty-eight copies. A collection of etchings of cats by the Italian artist Anna Maria Bartolini, some of which are printed on pink mulberry paper and tipped in. All are signed by the artist in graphite. Some of the cats are..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1973. Folio. (68)ff. Illustrated with twelve full-page etchings and sixteen wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. According to the Gehenna Press bibliography, from a planned edition of 400, including 150 deluxe copies with extra suites and 250 regular copies, only the latter regular edition copies were ever..... More
(Chicago): Starshaped Press, 2017. Square quarto. (6)ff. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Jennifer Farrell. Letterpress-printed illustrations of girls formed from type ornaments accompany lyrics from songs by The Bodysnatchers, The Jam, Alex Chilton, and MC Lyte to present empowered, confident figures from subcultures that reappropriated the term..... More
Bob Ziering, 2009. Pastel on paper. Signed and dated by the artist, Bob Ziering. Exploratory artwork for the gay 2010 American short film Curious Thing directed by Alain Hain. This bold, emotional piece is Ziering at his most authentic; a celebrated commercial illustrator, it was only after more than forty..... More
Prague, Czechoslovakia and Vestal, NY: Robert Marx and Ivan Ruzicka, 1966. Octavo. (28)ff. One of twenty-five copies, signed by the artist, Robert Marx, and the translator and binder, Ivan Ruzicka, below the colophon, and initialled by Marx on the title page. Marx’s etched portraits of old women, all numbered and..... More
(Sacramento, CA): Deconstructed Artichoke Press, 2012. As much a love letter to baseball as an admonition of its cultural shortcomings, Thompson’s prose poem follows a softball player’s discovery of herself and of the gender bias in the game she adores. The text is loaded with as many questions as answers..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Octavo. 6ff. One of two artist's proof copies out of a total edition of fifty. Includes frontispiece and colophon illustrations, each reproducing one of the artist's original photograms as a photogravure; in the regular edition, each copy received only one of these. The second in..... More
(Rheinbach, Germany: John Gerard, 2005). Small quarto. (40)pp. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist. Each letter of this alphabet is scrawled in black over and over to fill the text area defined by Tschichold's canon of page construction, which is printed in red on every page. An interesting..... More
(Gloucestershire, UK): Leslie Gerry Editions, (2016). Folio. (60)pp. From an edition of 80 copies, this is one of 70 bound in cloth. Illustrated with twenty-two full-color double-page spreads of the people and scenery of Havana. Includes extracts from Irene A. Wright's "Cuba," written in 1910. Gerry's paintings, inspired by a...... More
Victoria, Australia: 2010. Square 32mo. (14)pp., accordion-fold, decorated on both sides of the page. An original artist's book by Jennifer Gibney, with hand-drawn text and pen illustrations in black, sepia, and sanguine ink, housed within a hand-painted and decorated wooden box. The story concerns a jester-like character who is overwhelmed..... More
c. 1918. Pen and ink overpainted with white gouache on paper, measuring 4 1/4 by 3 1/2 inches, mounted to larger mat. The image depicts a side view of Mary unclothed framed by the text of the Beata viscera—the Communion motet of the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin. By..... More
Ditchling: 1916. Three renderings of Gill's "Christmas Gifts" illustration: an original graphite on card, a print on handmade paper of the illustration as "Christmas Gifts: Dawn," and a photo-reproduction of "Christmas Gifts: Daylight." The core composition of the images remains the same: a reclining Mary snuggles the newborn Christ child..... More
Ditchling: 1915. Print on tissue. An image of a crucified Christ, here with arms at forty-five degrees to the hortizontal beam of the cross, "INRI" appearing in mirror on the halo, and blood from the spear-wound pouring directly into a chalice. Likely a proof impression, due to the variation in..... More
Ditchling: 1919. Two prints by Gill. The first appears to be perhaps a ghost monotype, printed on tissue; it shows black in the quadrants divided by the crucifix where other printings show white (or neutral). The second is a variant, likely an early mockup toward the finished product and lacking..... More
(Ditchling): 1919. Bodycolor and graphite on paper measuring 7 1/2 by 5 inches. Initialled and dated "17.1.19" in lower right corner. The image here was originally executed by Gill in 1917 after a crucifix in the window of York Minister (see Physick 89), and bears stylistic similarities with the crucifixion..... More
Ditchling: c. 1910. Pen-and-ink overpainted in white gouache on stiff card, measuring 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. Original artwork by Eric Gill for Roger Fry's 1910 Christmas card. An artist and influential art critic, Fry reviewed Gill's first sculpture exhibition at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea, and was one..... More
Piggots, High Wycombe: 1930. Pen and ink over graphite on single sheet measuring 5 15/16 by 4 7/8 inches. Signed and dated "7.8.30." Gill depicts the front view of the Wife of Bath astride a horse in this design, which appeared on the upper cover of the third volume of..... More
Piggots, High Wycombe: 1938. Pencil and crayon on graph paper measuring 14 3/4 by 11 inches. Dated 21 May, 1938. Large, detailed drawing of the crucifix that adorned the central altar at Blundell's School in Tiverton. Gill's work on this project was done with an eye toward making participation in..... More
1924. Measures 4 by 3 15/16 inches. Intaglio engraving on hard endgrain boxwood, so that the finish mimics a copper engraving. This process is discussed in detail in an article by Gill entitled "Intaglio Printing from Wood Blocks." This image is a slightly different version of an engraving Gill made..... More
(Ditchling: c. 1920). Pen-and-ink on paper, with traces of pencil. Image shows an angel greeting St. Peter in jail, holding a key and preparing to set him free of his chains. The remnants of a pencil gestural drawing can be seen at the illustration's left. The page's verso show's Gill's..... More
1928. Engraved print by Eric Gill illustrating a celebratory Christmas card for 1928. Affixed to cardstock. Fine. (Printed sheet measures 5 1/2 by 3 3/8; 141x86mm). More
(Pigotts: Rene Hague & Eric Gill, 1930). 24mo. (8)pp. One of 225 copies. The first piece of letterpress printing produced by René Hague and Eric Gill, copies of this booklet were distributed privately. The tale of Amnon's rape of his half-sister Tamar actually appeared in the Second Book of Samuel..... More
Capel-y-ffin: 1929. Graphite on paper measuring 4 1/2 by 7 1/8 inches, initialled by Gill and dated "20.5.29." At the top of the drawing, which is a varation on a 1921 engraving done for The Society of Wood Engravers, Gill has added the note "For D.C. Book of EG Engravings."..... More
