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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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..... More
Boston: Heron Press, 1979. Octavo. (28)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Signed by Glotzer, and with an ALS from him to Abe Lerner. The ALS states that, though the colophon claims twenty-five copies, only four were actually printed. Two-color frontispiece of John Cotton, to whom one fo Glotzer's poems is dedicated..... More
Boston: Heron Press, 1969. Octavo. (47)pp. One of 150 copies. Five illustrations in wood and metal by Chandler, printed on near-translucent tan paper. Introduction by Thomas Heffernan. Bound in cloth-backed marbled boards. Very fine. More
Boston: Heron Press, 1989. Folio. 33pp., unbound, as issued. From an edition of 115 copies, this is one of fifteen printed on handmade paper, with an extra etching laid in, and signed by Chandler and Lewis. Illustrated with eight etchings by Chandler, one of which is a double-page fold-out. The..... More
New Haven, CT: Jonathan Edwards College Press, 1974. Small quarto. (x), 13pp. One of 100 copies. Wood-engraved color frontispiece and textual diagram by Lance Hidy, elucidating Edwards' pronounced awe of spiders. Bound in black cloth over boards with paper spine label. Fine. More
(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..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. Octavo. x, 80pp., + (5)ff. of paper specimens. One of 300 copies. Also illustrated with reproductions of photographs of Seymour and company activities, as well as various examples of correspondence. Printed at the Manoutios Press in Athens. Quarter bound by Vassilis Kypreos in..... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1983. Quarto. 190pp. One of 850 numbered copies printed by the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. Signed and dated by the author, Phoebe Jane Easton. Illustrated with six tipped-in specimens of marbled paper, mounted color frontispiece, and color plates. Some foxing to upper cover and..... More
Leicestershire: Plough Press, (1977-80?). Quarto. 27pp., + (27)ff. of marble samples. One of 112 copies. Begins with the onset of paper marbling in England in the seventeenth century, and continues with other sources documenting the practice through the 1950s. Specimens include the work of Douglas Cockerell & Son, nineteenth-century examples..... More
Denby Dale, Huddersfield: Fleece Press, 1996. Octavo. 51pp. One of 300 copies. Introduced by Barry McKay with new marbled samples tipped in by Ann Muir. Extremely fine in quarter cloth and marbled-paper boards. Housed in a cloth-covered dropback box. More
North Hatfield, MA; NY: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999. Two folio volumes. 117, 244pp. One of 400 copies designed and heavily illustrated by Barry Moser, with 262 original "relief engravings" throughout. Signed by Moser. The watermarks were also designed by Moser, based on sixteenth-century French marques du papier, featuring a pomegranate..... More
1998. Relief engraving. Donald Hall, who served as 14th Poet Laureate of the United States from 2006-2007 and to whom this copy is inscribed, was the model for Ecclesiastes. Signed by the artist. AP. Framed. (17 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.). More
Nevada City, CA: Berliner, Harold, 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..... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece..... More
(Chillicothe: Mountain House Press), 1936. Quarto. (36)pp., + 25ff. plates and specimens. One of 115 copies printed on Hunter's handmade paper and signed by the author. Hunter was the first Occidental traveler to visit the Niltongkum family, who had been "making paper by hand along the small canals of Southern..... More
Cincinnati: The Stratford Press, (c. 1938). Small octavo. 34pp. One of 210 copies. Hunter's text was originally printed in the magazine Paper Progress. The biographical sketch was printed in the Chillicothe Gazette on the occasion of Mr. Hunter's leaving that city to establish the Dard Hunter Papermaking Museum at M.I.T...... More
Venezia: Antonio Zatta, 1757-1758. Four quarto volumes: L’Inferno, Il Purgatorio, Il Paradiso, Prose & Rime Liriche. (16), xlviii, ccccviii; ccccxiii, (3); cccclii, (4), 104; xii, 408, (4), 264, lxxxiv, (2)pp. Illustrated throughout with 114 engraved plates, by F. Giampiccoli, J. Magnini, F. Rizzi, and B. Crivelli, after works by Italian..... More
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..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. Small quarto. (55)pp. Eight woodcut illustrations and each page with black floral borders. A fine rendering of John Keats's poem adapted from Boccacio's Decameron. In it, a young woman engaged to marry a nobleman falls in love with a commoner. When her brothers discover..... More
Oldham: Incline Press, 1999. 32mo. 10pp. An extract from a talk given at the Typophiles, illustrated with figures contorted into the shapes of letters. Fine in decorative paper wrappers. 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
Oxford: Jericho Press, 1995. Octavo. v, 29pp. One of 240 copies. Inscribed by Roger Stoddard, former Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library. A history of Harvard University's arms, with examples of each. Fine in suitably crimson cloth. More
Oxford: Jericho Press, 1998. Octavo. iii, 44pp. One of 150 copies. Translated from the Latin by Rodney G. Dennis, printed and edited by J. F. Coakley. Begins with the purported work of Rabbi Neumia ben Haccana expounding on prophetic biblical texts concerning the coming Messiah. De Heredia's own writings detail..... 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
