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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(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2009. Square octavo. 40pp. One of thirty-five copies, this being one of the first eight and thus including an original trial piece, bound in before the title page, and an additional booklet. The second volume of this collaborative exploration of color, Hodgson and Cohen tackle..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2011. Octavo. (57)pp. One of thirty copies, signed by the authors at the colophon. As playful as it is studious, Hodgson and Cohen's modern take on wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosity, is an elegant collection on collecting. Through a variety of media - engravings, drawings..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Quarto. (20)pp., + 6 plates. The printer's copy, outside an edition of twenty-six lettered copies. A bibliography of works published from 2000-2010 by Rollin Milroy's two printing ventures, Heavenly Monkey and A Lone Press. Sample sheet from six Heavenly Monkey books append the volume. Printed..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2008. 20ff.,+ 4 tipped-in paper samples. Second edition. One of 50 copies. Printed to mark the tenth anniversary of its original publication, El Autobus Azul was the first book printed by Rollin Milroy, and this new edition adds a Foreword by him. Four samples of papers collected..... More
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2009. Quarto. 40pp., + 4ff. samples of paper made by Reg Lissel and 4ff. of specimens of the metal types held at Heavenly Monkey. One of forty copies. Five leaves from works influential to the press are bound in, dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Also..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2000. 48mo. (14)pp. One of "a few dozen copies run through the office copier," this designation an acknowledgement of "the anachronistic nature" of the private press enterprise. A year's wrap-up from Milroy, with hand-colored illustrations throughout. Bound in handmade paper wrappers, fine. More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2008). Quarto. 13pp. One of five hors de commerce copies, with a piece of Doves Press ephemera printed on paper in place of the vellum leaf described on the title page. Hand-set and printed on dampened paper by Rollin Milroy. Bound and tooled by Claudia Cohen in..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2023. Quarto. 25pp. One of forty copies, this being one of the first fifteen and thus having a second color linocut tipped-in. Signed by William Rueter, who contributed the Introduction, which provides useful, and at times elegiac, biographical information on Rimmer's career and typographic designs. Subsequent..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Broadside measuring 22 by 15 inches. One of thirty copies—this copy marked "Position proof." Unsigned. With full-page illustration of a hermaphroditic figure, titled "The Botanist," and two smaller text figures of mushrooms, all from drawings by Atsushi Fukui. Sylvian was the former frontman for the..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2011. Quarto. 96pp. From an edition of thirty copies, this is one of two optioned for a test binding. Signed by the author/illustrator, Jim Westergard. Illustrated with forty wood engravings immortalizing infamous people, ranging from well-known oddballs such as Lizzie Borden and Hunter Thompson, to more..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2010. Quarto. (13)ff. One of sixty copies. Signed by the artist at colophon, as well as on verso of each pigment print. The prints have been hand-touched with watercolor and are individually enclosed in over-beaten abaca paper folios on which twelve poems written by..... More
(Santa Barbara, CA): Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. Octavo volume and strand of ten paper prayer flags. (22)ff. + 20ff. One of twenty copies. Signed by Heebner. Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether. Written in..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2000. One of fifty copies. Twelve prints from Heebner's Isla Negra series of paintings appear in the center of trifolded sheets, with twelve of Neruda's poems of the sea tipped in on either side: the original Spanish at the right, and Alastair Reid's English..... More
(N.p. Golden Cockerel Press, 1981). One of three known copies of Josef Herman's lithographs, gathered as a suite and intended to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press's final book. The book was never published and the lithographs languished until their discovery some twenty years later. Printed in blue and black, the..... 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
Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 2000. Folio. (20)pp. One of seven deluxe copies, specially bound and with an extra suite of etchings on yellow Chinese paper. Signed by composer, Bun-Ching Lam. Lam had been commissioned to compose a piece for the Cross Sound Festival in Alaska, and took inspiration from three..... 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, 1981; 1983. Two folio volumes. 198; (131)pp. One of 150 copies signed by the author. Volume I contains numerous specimen woodcuts, title pages, advertisements, letterheads, and color photographs tipped or bound in, all showing various aspects of Hunter's non-papermaking work, including enamel, stained glass, and his..... More
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
(San Francisco & Santa Barbara: Paul Elder & Co., 1909). Quarto. Frenchfold. 22ff. First and only edition. Pictorial title page and colophon, decorated copyright page, and 19 illustrations by Robert Wilson Hyde, all printed in color and gold. Considered one of the highlights of Paul Elder's publications, this is one..... More
NY: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931. Two large octavo vols. lxxii, 235; xxii, 336pp. One of 525 copies, signed by the illustrator and the translator below the limitation statement. Gooden's twenty-six copper engravings punctuate this pleasing pair of volumes with fantastic weight and imagination. Both volumes bound in full vellum with..... 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
Sweden, ME: Ives Street Press, 1991. 16mo. (19)pp. One of 100 copies. Signed the printer and artist, Barbara Cash, at the colophon, and this copy with a signed holiday note from her laid in. Very first leaf sports a delicate array of pressed flowers, set within a double-rule border printed..... 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
