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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(Mount Vernon, NY: Artists & Writers Protest Inc. 1967). Folio. (28)pp. One of 100 deluxe copies. A collection of eighteen poems by writers who contributed their work as a form of opposition to the Vietnam War. The collection was edited by the artist Jack Sonenberg and contains works by Denise... More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1934. Small quarto. 79pp. One of 250 copies, signed and numbered by the author. An essay written and printed by hand by Hilary Pepler for the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago. Illustrated with two wood engravings by David Jones and many facsimile examples of Pepler's... More
Fullerton, CA: Lyceum Press, 1998. Octavo. (7)pp. Signed by Gloria Stuart. A keepsake for the attendees of the twenty-fourth Biennial Joint Meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs. Offers some snippets of the lift of Stuart, an honorary Zamorano Club member and perhaps best known as the 103-year-old Rose in... More
(N.p. Stamperia Di Alberto Tallone, 1975). Quarto. Lxxxvii, 251pp. One of 470 copies. A bibliography of works by the Italian printer Alberto Tallone with many sample title pages. Prefaced with an introduction and a biographical essay. At a young age, Tallone became an apprentice in the printing house of Maurice... More
(Cranberry Isles, Maine: Tidal Press, c. 1975). Broadside. Signed by the author. A poem and an illustration of a chickadee, both by Charles Wadsworth, who along with his wife, Jean Howard, was proprietor of Tidal Press. Fine. More
Parisiis: Typis Imperialibus, 1805. Quarto. (vii), 150ff. Correct first edition of this work, distinguished from a contemporary pirated edition by the presence of the coat-of-arms of the French Republic as the title page device. A typographic tour of the world’s languages, this work was printed to honor the visit of... More
(Houston, TX: ImpPress, 1965). Small octavo. (12)ff. One of 150 copies, signed by the artist and printer, Dugald Stermer. A quirky type specimen book printed on various colors of paper, in many colors of ink. With full-page illustrations, including a cartoonish frontispiece of a man with a printing press in... More
NY: Paul A. Bennett for The Typophiles, 1937. 12mo. xxvi, 327pp. One of 190 copies designed by John S. Fass and printed by 22 printers. This extraordinary little book is a collection of 156 proposed Typophile devices contributed to by 113 artists, designers, and printers of the day. Various ink... More
Bangor: Theodore Press, 1986. Quarto. (138)pp. One of 160 copies signed by the illustrator, Claire Van Vliet, and of those, one of ten hors commerce. This edition uses the text of the 1623 First Folio, which is accompanied by Van Vliet's expressive black and white woodcut illustrations, some of them... More
(N.p. John McBride, 2010). Broadside, measuring 18 by 6 inches. The text is printed in a gradient from yellow to green. Printed for the joint Roxburghe/Zamorano meeting in 2010 with the compliments of Kathleen Burch and John McBride. Signed by McBride and the author, Paul Vangelisti. Very fine. More
Buenos Aires: Colombo, 1958. Quarto. 32pp. From an edition of 52 copies, this is one of thirty-two copies printed on Ingres. An elegantly-printed bilingual edition of Keats's Odes, in English and Spanish, each with a full-page lithograph by Raúl Veroni of the poem's subject. The first illustration is signed in... More
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(Buenos Aires: R. Veroni, 1972). Small quarto. (28)pp. From an edition of thirty-two copies, this is one of three copies printed on Japan paper. Signed by the translator, Miguel Alfredo Olivera, on the colophon page. Shelley's famous ode, translated into Spanish, is illustrated with colored engravings by Raúl Veroni. A.... More
(Easthampton, MA): Warwick Press, 1987. Quarto. (4)pp., accordion-fold. One of twenty copies signed by Carol Blinn, who wrote, illustrated, and printed this book. A poem by Blinn is accompanied by a watercolor illustration that extends across the central page spread, depicting three yellow balls floating on a cerulean pool surrounded... More
(Easthampton, MA): Warwick Press, 1983. 12mo. (10)pp. One of 60 copies, signed by the illustrator and printer, Carol J. Blinn. A delightful little book celebrating ten years of printing by the Warwick Press, set in Perpetua and printed in black and gold, with text in English and Italian. The two... More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1981-2012. Thirty-eight volumes, comprising thirty-four original volumes, plus the reprints of Volumes 1 and 2, as well as the index volume (1-21) and the offprint index for volumes 1 through 5. Limitation varies between thirty and eighty copies. A complete set of the deluxe issues of... More
(Lower Marston: Whittington Press, 1992). Quarto. 227 pp. From an edition of 350 copies, this is one of thirty-five bound in full Oasis goatskin, with an extra portfolio of leaves and complete publications of the Stanbrook Abbey Press, and signed by the author and by the Abbess of Stanbrook. A.... More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, (1981). Quarto. (28)pp. One of twenty-five copies bound in vellum. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Signed by the artist, R. George Thomas (writer of the introduction and editor of the author's letters and poems), and Myfanwy Thomas (the author's daughter). First appearing circa... More
Gloucestershire, UK: Whittington Press & Acorn Press, (1983). Folio. xvi, 68pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with a large photographic frontispiece depicting the artist at work, and with an autobiographical introduction. The book consists primarily of examples of Weissenborn's engravings, followed by a catalogue. Bound in tan buckram with an... More
(Andoversford, Gloucestershire / London): Whittington Press / Acorn Press, 1977. Oblong folio. (43)pp. One of 60 copies. Illustrated with twenty-one hand-colored linocuts on the rectos of each page, and quotations about the ruins on the facing versos. The ruins depicted are both ancient and modern, including the Great Wall of... More
Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, (1977). Large quarto. (26)ff. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the author-illustrator. A collection of ten poems and ten etchings by Judy Ling Wong, beautifully printed on heavy Fabriano Roma handmade paper. Wong printed the etchings, which are in black, in her own studio; each one... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Folio. 160pp. One of 325 copies printed by the book designer, author, and printer Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley. A lavishly illustrated bibliography, printed in two colors, with sample pages bound in. Spine very lightly sunned, else very fine in quarter-morocco and wheat buckram. More
(Shaker Heights, OH): Wind & Harlot Press, (1991). (24)pp., frenchfold. One of 52 copies. A lovely presentation of the classic poem, printed on Japanese paper. With sweetly colored illustrations by Bonnie Baris showing the cat as she is beguiled by the gold (fish) that ultimately leads to her doom. Mint... More
Austin: Book Club of Texas, 1993. Broadside measuring 14 by 20 inches. Printed by the Wind River Press. Includes a quotation from J. Frank Dobie's "Some Part of Myself" (1967), and an illustration by Teresa Avini. The main image, printed in a dark purple, shows cowboys silhouetted against a night... More
(Haarlem: Carlinapers, 1974). Tall, narrow octavo. (20)pp. One of forty copies. A reprint of the original 1943 edition, which was also published in a limited edition of forty copies. In this poignant satirical variation on the "Ten Little Indians" nursery rhyme, originating from a German concentration camp during the Holocaust... More
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press, 2000. Quarto. 87 pp. One of 44 deluxe copies with a print pulled from John Buckland Wright's copper plates entitled "Nymphe Surprise No.II", engraved during his period at the Atelier 17. It was a previously un-editioned copper engraving, printed by the Black Star Press and... More
