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, 1893). Octavo. 72pp. 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..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press for John Windle, Bookseller, 1994. Folio. (4), (2)pp, (1)ff. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of five copies that includes an opening leaf with one full-page illustration and a border on the reverse. The illustration was designed by Edward Burne-Jones and depicts a...... 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
Offenbach am Main: Klingspor, 1921. 16mo. (12)pp. The verses of von Hutten, a Protestant reformer and follower of Martin Luther, here receive Klingspor's precise and evocative typographic treatment. Near fine in mauve wrappers with some bumps to corners. More
Leipzig: F. A. Lattman, 1910. Small quarto. (16)pp. Lettering, title page, and ornaments in black, red, and gold by Rudolf Koch. A bold production of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, printed in Kochschrift, so that the design bridges the flourishes of medieval manuscripts and the sleekness of early twentieth-century type..... 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
Rotterdam: W. L. & J. Brusse, 1903-1910. Octavo. (vi), vii, (v), 159, (3)pp. A deluxe copy of the translation of Morris' work into Dutch, the regular edition of which was printed in 1903. Drawn title page and frontispiece, along with five Morris-like illustrations interspersed throughout. With typography in red and..... 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
Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2005. Octavo. (20)pp., + tipped-in reproduction of the original letter. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece by George Kuthan; the block was borrowed from the University of British Columbia's Special Collections Library. Signed by Jeremy Wilson and Don Stewart, authors of the Preface and..... More
Minneapolis, MN: Mnemonic Press, 2011. Two small quarto vols. (82); (82)ff., loose. One of seven copies, signed by the artist, Harriet Bart. Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, Drawn in Smoke is both meditative and challenging, with each of its 160 sheets pairing a victim’s name, inscribed in..... More
Chicago: Sherwin Beach Press, 1993. Oblong octavo. 21pp. One of 200 copies. Four photographs by Mike Tappin depict people living on insubstantial government funds, the “safety net.” The text by Steve Bogira, originally published in 1983 in the Chicago Reader, details the lives of those hovering at the poverty line..... More
Magog [Quebec]: Guylaine Couture, 2021. Small octavo. (11)pp., accordionfold. Unique, signed by the artist, Guylaine Couture. Based on data collected by the United Nations Refugee Agency and various national surveys taken in India, Australia, France, the United States, and other countries, m2 visualizes global disparities in housing and the rippling..... More
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931. Quarto. (x), (ii)pp., + 14 plates. One of 500 copies, signed by Landacre. Foreword by Arthur Miller. Published during a period that saw a renaissance in woodcuts and wood engravings, this marks Landacre's first original publication. Originally from Ohio, Landacre discovered the beauty of the..... More
Bellamar, Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín, 2014. Octavo. (10)pp. One of fifty copies. An artist’s book of multi-dimensional, tactile design, layering organic materials, transparent sheets, and tipped-in pages to explore the Jewish-Latin identities of its authors. Illustrations include paper collage, calligraphy, and hand-colored printed drawings, which fold out to reveal scenes..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Moving Parts Press, (1991). Quarto. (44)pp. One of 70 copies, signed by the author, Francisco X. Alarcón. Forty pen-and-ink drawings by Ray Rice, in his second collaboration with his daughter, Felicia Rice, printer and proprietor of Moving Parts Press, are at once abstract, fractural, and familiar. Literally..... More
Iowa City: Poinciana Paper Press, 2018. Oblong 16mo. 192pp. One of twenty-five copies, signed by the artist. Printed in black, red, brown, and yellow, Famer's book is a shapeshifter, designed to disrupt the teleological assumptions put forth by colonizers and colonial historians of the Caribbean. She blends her own poetic..... More
Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2013. Octavo. 59pp. One of 200 copies. Nancy Balboa’s illustrations celebrate Cuba’s agriculture, and draw a parallel between its grassroots rural life and its heritage of grassroots revolution. Martí, considered by many the “patron saint” of Cuba, was at the forefront of such organic, popular activism..... 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
Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. Folio. 54pp. With a Preface by Strouse and a Note by the Printer, Leonard F. Bahr. From an edition of 329, this is one of seventy-five copies with a Bible leaf on handmade paper and a quarto leaf on vellum. In this copy, the paper..... 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, 2010. Folio. 37pp. One of 500 copies, signed by the photographer, Robert Frank, and David Armitage, who contributed the Afterword, with a frontispiece photogravure of Frank's "Jay, New York" (1954). Frank's photograph, on its surface, captures the nostalgia and national pride characteristic of 1950s America. A...... 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
(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
Brisbane: Locks' Press, 1979. Folio. (10)ff. One of 60 copies, signed by illustrator and Locks' Press co-founder Margaret Lock. Eight black & white engravings accompany Lear's nonsense poem about a man who has his toes stolen (possibly by mermaids) while swimming across the Bristol Channel. This is the first book..... More
