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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East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1905. Small octavo. xx, 48pp. Signed by Dard Hunter, who completed the title-page decoration and initials for the volume. A gloriously quaint edition paying suitable homage to the classic folktale. Bound in limp red suede impressed in black. Expected toning to endpapers and edges of text..... More
(New Britain, CT): Robert E. Massmann, 1980. (6); (6); (10)ff., frenchfold. One of 68 copies printed at Art Press. Fascinating in form and content, this book addresses two great papermakers in an octagonally-shaped book bound as a triple dos-à-dos. The first part is about Hunter, the second about Elliott. The..... More
Philadelphia and Minneapolis: Dargonet Press (i.e. Dagonet Press), (n.d.). Large octavo. (24)pp. One of sixteen copies. Signed by Anderson after the title page, and by the designer and printer, James Engelbart, at the colophon. Anderson's nine woodcuts of chickens appear opposite nine original fables. Each of these is followed by..... 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
Boston, MA: Nimrod Press, 1962. Elephant folio. (13)pp., + 6ff. plates. One of 550 copies. A massive, multi-colored, visual tour through some of La Fontaine's tales. Nason's woodcuts, which include a portrait of La Fontaine himself, command impressive dimensions while remaining lighthearted and earnest in weight. Bound in wrappers with..... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, (1994). Folio. 12ff. One of 300 copies, signed by the author and Balthus, the illustrator. Text in Spanish, French, and English. Designed by Dan Carr and printed at the Wild Carrot Press in Hadley, MA, on handmade Kozo Uwazen paper, this trilingual edition of Paz's poem..... More
East Barnard, VT: Hand and Spoon / Diane Meaker, 1971. Oblong 48mo. (9)ff. One of twelve copies. Inscribed by the artist at the front flyleaf, "for Georgia with love/from Diane". Meaker's four glossy prints pair color spectrums and repeated images of stars, flowers, and menorah-like trees with the lines of..... More
Sydney: Ant Press, 2019. 16mo. (44)pp. One of six copies, signed by the artist, Monica Oppen. Oppen’s photographs depict the clamor of Sydney’s Central Station, showing all manner of bodies, movements, and faces turned away. In presenting a stream of figures all in a state of transience, all moving from..... More
Sitka, Alaska: Orca Press, 1983. Dauenhauer, though himself not indigenous, was married to Tlingit poet, scholar, and advocate Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and he subsequently joined his wife’s efforts to translate and preserve Tlingit oral literature and advocate for the preservation of Tlingit culture through awareness and linguistic study. His poetry..... More
Tallahassee, FL: Small Craft Advisory Press, 2012. Square small quarto. From an edition of 50, this is one of 10 deluxe copies, signed by the artist, Allison Leialoha Milham. A multimedia compilation of a twelve-inch vinyl record, bifold lyric sheet, stencil, 24pp. booklet on handmade paper, set of four postcards..... More
(Hadley, MA): American Indian Mystery Press, 1997. Folio. (64)ff. One of 60 copies, signed by the author, Russell Means, and the artist, Peter Bogardus. Illustrated with twenty-three etchings in black, white, and shades of red, inspired by the iconography of the Plains peoples, specifically the Oglala Lakota. While the etchings..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1993. Oblong folio. One of 250 copies of the deluxe edition, containing an original print by Peter Milton, who has signed both the print itself and the edition statement. Milton also provides an Afterword, in which he describes his inspiration for his illustrations, each of which..... More
Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna: Propyläen, 1973. Folio. (30)ff., + 26 plates laid in. One of sixty copies. Each plate is signed and numbered by the artist. The twenty-six color etchings each depict a letter of the alphabet in a bizarre, fantastic, and sometimes grotesque manner fitting the excerpt from Joyce's..... More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, (1996). 26ff. One of 200 copies signed by Claire Van Vliet, the designer, and Audrey Holden, the assembler. A miniature cut-out alphabet in an alternating accordionfold, made of overlapping and interlocked pieces of multicolored, figured, and textured papers, using the offcuts from one of Van Vliet's..... More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2011. Twenty-four 16mo. chapbooks, housed in quarto trifold portfolio. Each chapbook (8)ff. One of 120 copies, signed by Peter Schumann, whose charcoal-and-ink drawings illustrate the interiors and whose crayon drawings grace the covers. Here, Schumann explores the format of Latin American cordells, chapbooks traditionally sold by..... More
(N.p. Janus Press, 1955; 1980. Small octavo. (vi), 45, (2)pp. Inscribed twice by the author. The first book of the Janus Press, with a frontispiece woodcut and two additional cuts by Claire Van Vliet, whose imagery adopts a classical motif to echo the highbrow sentiments of Theobald's verses. A promising..... More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 1982. Octavo. 33pp. One of 220 copies, signed by the author and the illustrator. Relief print illustration by Van Vliet, showing a moonlit desertscape. Thorne's short story of travel and self-actualization, set in southern Asia, is here printed letterpress in black with page numbers in yellow..... More
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2002. Quarto text volume, plus sixteen 32mo. samples. 142pp.; samples variously paginated. One of 200 copies, signed by Claire Van Vliet. A trade copy of Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner's how-to manual on creating non-adhesive book structures is accompanied by miniature models of each of the..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
London: Clover Hill Editions, 1977. Quarto. 30, (5)pp. One of 80 copies, printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on Barcham Green handmade paper, watermarked "Clover Hill." Illustrated with ten wood engravings by David Jones, this title is considered by many to be the artist's most important work..... More
Poestenskill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1983. From an edition of forty-two copies, this is one of seven printed on pink paper. This marks the very first book printed in Poestenkill, an event commemorated with a loose transparency of the tower of Poestenkill, the site of the press, before the title page..... More
Hamburg: Kaldewey Press, 1977-1978. Folio. One of fifty copies of Kaldewey's second artist's book and the first book of the Press. Illustrated with color Xerox copies, color mylar overlays, and found art to document Kaldewey's first trip to New York. While there, Kaldewey shot an 8mm movie, stills of which..... More
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..... More
