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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(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897). Quarto. (xii), 340, (viii)pp. One of 250 copies on paper. With numerous initials and ornaments. Printed in Chaucer type, with chapter titles and marginal notes in red. Each of the six parts begins with a wide border and a fourteen-line initial block containing the entire first..... More
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 16mo. 68pp. One of 500 copies. Decorated with a woodcut title page and facing page with full woodcut border, plus three-, seven- and thirteen-line initials throughout. Printed in Chaucer type in black, with shoulder notes and colophon page in red. Boards slightly toned, some rubbing to..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893). One of 500 copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. This is the second issue, with four cancellans leaves replacing pp. 15-16, 19-20, 25-26, and 69-70. With wide leaf and blossom borders to the opening page and to the title-page, which is printed against..... More
(Pasadena, CA): Kerberos Press, 2011. Octavo. 28ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the printer, Vance Studley, and the designer, Tom Mossman, on the colophon page. An unbound collection of detail illustrations of twelve different species of solitary bees, each with an accompanying description of its physical and social characteristics..... More
NY: Ursus Books, 2007. 15pp. From an edition of 74 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by the artist, Joseph Goldyne, and the designer, Peter Rutledge Koch. Illustrated with a signed etching by Goldyne titled "As the Blind Remember," printed on seventeenth-century paper and tipped in as..... More
Gulfport, FL: Konglomerati Press, 1981. Octavo. (42)pp. One of 1000 copies. Seven illustrations in green, orange, black, and blue, with a two-page spread for the title page. Trace rubbing to corners, else fine in gray cloth with orange cloth over boards and paper label. Prospectus laid in. More
(Philadelphia): Philadelpia College of Art, 1972. Quarto. (18)pp. One of eleven copies. Inscribed by the artist, Susan Kronfeld, to Stuart Schimmel, who served on the Grolier Club council and whose personal collections and public curatorial positions allowed him to continually present exhibits to the New York community. Kronfeld's eight color..... More
(Torrance, CA): Labyrinth Editions, 1980. Folio. 28ff., frenchfold. One of 250 copies, signed by the poet, William Everson, and the artist, Tom Killion. Designed and printed in two colors by Richard Bigus. Killion's beautifully executed, white-line linocuts are printed in dark blue. The title illustration is a triptych of the..... More
(Athens, OH): Labyrinth Editions, 1982. Folio. (21)ff. From an edition of 130 copies, this is one of 50 with a separate portfolio of signed prints, and an additional, signed, unbound print, measuring 17 by 22 inches. Signed by the printer, Richard Bigus, the illustrator, Daniel Goldstein, and Bradford Morrow, who..... More
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, (1970). Octavo. (11) ff. One of 183 copies. With an inscription by James Laughlin. A short collection of poems by the poet and legendary founder of New Directions, which published some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos..... More
NY: Society of Foliophiles, (1925). Quarto. One of 200 copies printed for the Society of Foliophiles, containing 20 original leaves from notable books of English literature from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Unbound, as issued, with each leaf in its respective, annotated folder measuring 12 1/2 by 9 1/2..... More
(Southbury, CT): Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. Folio. 75pp. One of 285 copies printed at A. Colish, Inc., with typography by Jerry Kelly. A handsome and exhaustive account of the publication of what is considered by many to be D. B. Updike's magnum opus, together with a vellum leaf from the..... More
San Francisco: Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop, 1962. Quarto. 20pp. One of 76 copies printed and illustrated by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop. With illustrations throughout in pale terracotta. This leaf book explores the contents of a journal recording the business transactions of a...... More
Vancouver, B.C. Heavenly Monkey, 2019. Tall quarto. 18, (10)pp., + two tipped-in leaves. From an edition of 55 copies, this is one of thirty comprising the "Printed" issue. Reprints Pollard's essay, which first appeared in 1921 as the introduction to the catalogue of William Andrews Clark's Kelmscott and Doves collections..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1995. Quarto. lxxxiv, 242pp., leaf tipped in at rear. One of 100 copies of the special first edition distributed for the Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound in quarter goatskin, with an original leaf from the 1524 Colines edition..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1995. Quarto. lxxxiv, 242pp., leaf tipped in at rear. One of 100 copies of the special first edition distributed for the Friends of the Brigham Young University Library by W. Thomas Taylor. Specially bound in quarter goatskin, with an original leaf from the 1524 Colines edition..... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1956. Folio. 31pp. One of 290 copies printed at the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. Though this title usually only includes one original leaf, this particular copy contains two, one from the Book of Proverbs and another from the Book of..... More
(Rochester, NY): Leopard Studio Editions, 2014. (24)pp., accordion-fold, with two four-page inserts sewn in. One of five copies, signed and numbered by the artist. A miniature artist's book by Sue Huggins Leopard based on the poem by Emily Dickinson, which reads: "Love is anterior to life, / Posterior to death..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Quarto. 23pp., (4)ff. One of 452 copies, signed by the author. Dwiggins facetiously discusses the atrocities of the present design of currency and postage stamps, proposing new ones based on those issued by the fictional country of the Antipodes. Includes plates of Antipodean stamps and..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1995. Folio. 45, (4)pp., + 4 plates. One of 300 copies, signed by the artist, Setsuko, and with her chop mark. Four color woodcuts punctuate the text, which is translated by Charles Shiro Inouye. The images cast the tale in a wonderous setting, depicting peace, courage..... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, 1990. Small quarto. 183pp. One of 375 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated with eight lithographs by John Hejduk, printed at Pondside Press by Melissa and Ted Braggins. With an Afterword by David Shapiro. Mann's text is printed in black, while Shapiro's appears in brown. Bound..... More
New Haven: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Two octavo volumes. xiv, 406; (ii), 392pp., continuously paginated. One of 1,500 copies, signed by the illustrator. With an Introduction by Theodore Dreiser and sixteen etchings by Ashcan School artist John Sloan. Designed by Carl Purington Rollins and printed at the Yale University Press..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1998). Oblong folio. (26)ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by the photographer Edward Ranney. Illustrated with ten superb photographs of Macchu Picchu by Ranney, recreated as gravure plates by Jon Goodman of Hadley, MA. Printed at Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari's Golgonooza Letter Foundry and Press..... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, (1988). Elephant folio. (70)pp. One of 550 copies, with an authorized facsimile of the artist's signature. Illustrated with seventeen lithographs by Willem de Kooning. After Frank O'Hara's untimely death in 1966, a volume of his poetry was published with illustrations from over thirty artists. O'Hara's poem..... 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
