Bromer Bookseller has always held the aesthetic of letterpress printing as the finest technique in which to present the written word. We offer many fine examples of printing from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, as well as earlier printed items. On our shelves, you will the find traditional, restrained typography of Bruce Rogers and John Baskerville, as well as more experimental work from such modern practitioners as Gunnar Kaldewey. Other leading printers represented in our stock include ...
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London: Rainbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by the author. With full page two-color illustrations by Barrie Cooke. Handsomely printed early limited edition prints eight poems thematically related to Heaney's poetic pursuit of the archaeology of Ireland's violent past. These poems were published a month ahead...
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd, 1991. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan, who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the...
Dublin: Andrew Carpenter, 1979. First edition. From an edition of 125, this is one of 30 copies issued in black morocco and offered for sale. Illustrated with two lithographs by Louis Le Brocquy. Signed by Heaney, Le Brocquy, Liam Miller the designer, and the publisher, Andrew Carpenter. The book was...
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Small quarto. (18), (8)ff. One of twenty copies comprising the regular edition. This work celebrates the many varieties of metal type "purchased for, adopted by, & abandoned at Heavenly Monkey during the studio's first fifteen years" and is printed on a selection of nine different...
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 16mo. (30)ff., printed rectos only One of 36 copies. Inspired by a previous manuscript by calligrapher Francesca Lohmann, this publication is a calligraphic ABC consisting of twenty-six designs. The sequence begins with a majuscule A and each subsequent recto adds the next letter of the alphabet...
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Quarto. (5)ff. One of fifty copies signed by the contemporary Canadian artist Charles van Sandwyk. With six tipped-in plates, five of which are from the artist's earliest etchings, and one etching executed for this work. A brief essay about etching by van Sandwyk accompanies the artwork...
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. 30pp. First edition. One of 170 copies. Illustrated with a frontispiece author portrait by Henry Strater, an American painter and fellow expatriate who became friends with Hemingway in Paris. This is the author’s second book, published in a smaller edition than his first, a pamphlet...
Woodside, CA: Heyeck Press, 1995. Folio. 61pp. One of 90 copies. Signed by the author. Five full-page drawings by Okada, depicting various scenes from nature - a row of pines, leaves in the sun, and the like - in black and white. Printed using Centaur and Arrighi types on Barcham...
Woodside, CA: Heyeck Press, 1983. Octavo. 48pp. First edition, limited to 300 copies signed by the author. Poetry which "moves between past and present, New England and the South, the Europe of the Holocaust and the Palestine of early Zionism." Near imperceptible rubbing, else fine in boards marbled by Robin...
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in...
Neu-Isenburg: Tiessen, 1980. Small quarto. (16)pp. One of 250 copies. The text opens with an original color etching signed by the artist and numbered. Holderlin's elegy intertwines the elements of the Christian Eucharist with Classical connotations of Demeter and Dionysus. Bound in marbled paper wrappers with paper label to upper...
Neu-Isenburg: Tiessen, 1978. Small quarto. (15)pp. One of 250 copies. Title page features an original etching, signed by the artist. The etching, which depicts unsettled waters below rocky crags, evokes the intensity and romanticism of Holderlin's epic, lyrical poem. Bound in marbled paper wrappers with paper label to upper cover...
Nevada City, CA: Harold Berliner, 1999. Quarto. xiv, (4), 221pp. One of 300 copies. Logue's final major work, a long-term project to create a modernist version of Homer's Iliad. Logue's interpretation opts for looser structure and colloquialisms over a true translation of the original. Shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry...
Cornwall: Houyhnhnm, 2010. Quarto. 492, (3)pp. One of 176 copies. Edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. A weighty and noble printing of Joyce's enigmatic text. Bound in full black calfskin with gilt-stamped square to upper cover and titling to spine. Accompanied by bound booklet containing a note by Seamus...
Sydney, Australia: Beacon Press, 1948. Folio. 53pp. One of forty deluxe copies, signed by the author. A lovely production, illustrated with thirty-six color plates. The plates are genuine prints: beautifully made modern reproductions of the originals, done in Japan. The text traces the rise and fall of the Ukiyo-ye school...
London: Clover Hill Editions, 1979. Quarto. 19pp. One of 100 copies, printed on Barcham Green’s RWS handmade paper by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, with an extra set of the engravings on japon. Illustrated with thirteen wood engravings by David Jones, several of which frame the text. Jones...
Waltham St. Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Four woodcut initials, separately matted and framed, from the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Jonathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels. The "I", "A", "O", and "T" appear as part of symmetrical black-and-white designs, with lines falling in simple sweeps and patterend with dots and stars...
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. Octavo. vii, 26pp. First edition. Printed in red and black, with a preface and notes by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler. Illustrated with three wood engravings by David Jones and six by Gill. This is the fortieth St. Dominic's Press publication, and one of the...
London: Clover Hill Editions, 1977. Quarto. 20pp. One of only seven copies printed on vellum by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, and with a separate portfolio containing three sets of the wood engravings on vellum, handmade paper, and Japon. Illustrated by David Jones, this is considered by many...
(Brecon: Red Hen Press, 2001). Folio. One of forty copies signed by the author/artist, Shirley Jones. A tribute to the cats and dogs of Jones's family, consisting of eleven essays illustrated with twelve grey and black mezzotints. The velvety tones of the mezzotints perfectly capture the softness of a tabby's...
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1991. Oblong 24mo. (14)pp., accordion-fold. One of 55 copies designed, printed, and bound by Marie Dern at the Jungle Garden Press. A tongue-in-cheek printer's alphabet, with large initials in, appropriately, Caslon type. The initials are accompanied by humorous representations of the letters printed using numerous...
Neu-Isenburg: Tiessen, 1984. Small quarto. (15)pp. + suite of 3 plates. One of an edition of 274, this being one of 75 copies with the additional suite of signed and numbered plates. Also signed by the artist at colophon. The tale comes from the ninth chapter of Kafka's The Trial...
Austin: Kairos Press, 1986. Folio. (28)pp., + (7)ff. From an edition of 150, this is one of twenty-five copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with seven original monochrome lithographs, one of which is double-page. The prints form a sequence reflecting the progression of the poems, from the sensual woman portrayed...
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1990. Tall folio. (32)pp. From an edition of 55, this is one of twenty deluxe copies. Illustrated with ten paper pulp images of Jewish symbols, such as the Star of David, the Torah pointer, and the shofar. The text of the Song of Songs is printed...
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2001. Oblong quarto. 18pp., frenchfold. One of forty copies, signed by the artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. An elucidating history of the allure, in Japanese culture, of the "songs" of night insects. Printed in black on sky blue, high-sheen handmade paper flecked with darker blue. Each printed page...
