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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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
(NY): Limited Editions Club, (1987). Square elephant folio. (120)pp. One of 750 copies, signed by the poet and the artist. Illustrated with twenty-six full-page lithographs by Robert Motherwell, plus one original lithograph set into the upper cover. Three of the lithographs are printed on colored paper: one on blue, one..... 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
Brisbane: Locks' Press, 1983. Small quarto. 9ff., + 11 plates mounted on stubs, 3 of which are folding. Illustrated with thirteen etchings by Mona Ryder, a sculptor-turned-printmaker, who studied with Margaret Lock. In keeping with the Locks' ambition to rescue "unjustly neglected" texts, this book revives what is likely the..... More
(Columbus, OH): Logan Elm Press, 1990. Quarto. (38)pp. One of 115 copies, printed on handmade paper and signed by the poet, David Citino, the artist, Anthony Rice, and the designer of the book, Robert Tauber. A stunning production crafted in advance of the quincentennial celebration of Columbus’s voyage. Illustrated throughout..... More
NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1986. Two copies. 16mo. 27pp. Each one of 150 copies. Both signed by all authors at colophon, and inscribed by Horowitz at front free endpaper. Printed at the Kelly Winterton Press. A collection of transcripts of speeches given in memory of Bernard Malamud, the novelist and short..... More
Oxford: Plough Press, 1985. Octavo. 79pp., + 39ff. of marbled paper samples. The first edition of this work was printed in 1853; this is a reprint of the larger, more concise second edition of 1881 printed in London at George Bell and Sons. Foreword by Geoffrey Wakeman. The nearly 60..... More
(Boston): Penmaen Press, 1969. Octavo. 26pp. One of 100 copies. Designed and handset by Michael McCurdy, this first book of the Press is beautifully printed in red and black. Introduction by Elmer Howard Brown. Very fine in green boards with lightly sunned slipcase. Prospectus laid-in. More
Great Barrington, MA: Michael McCurdy, 2004. Quarto. One of eight copies. A suite of twenty-five laser prints of drawings by Michael McCurdy, each hand-colored, signed, and numbered by the artist. The drawings were originally done by McCurdy at the request of the University Press of Kansas, which commissioned the artist..... More
(N.p.): Mermaid Press, 1961. 24mo. (8)pp. Inscribed by the printer, Fridolf Johnson, dated 1982. A quaint book of lyrical epitaphs for various printers, including Christopher Barker and John Foster. Some fading to spine, else fine in blue wrappers. More
Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1922. 16mo. 35pp. One of 101 copies, printed for the Club of Odd Volumes by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Lionberger's reflections on sixty years of life, tightly bound in blind-stamped brown cloth. Rubbing to corners and spine, else very good. Note from..... More
(N.p. Michael Mar Press, 1977). Small quarto. (16)ff. One of twelve copies, hand-produced by jewelry designer Michael Dorsa and bookbinder Margaret Rhein. With twelve color illustrations. The text and images were both from an original work written and drawn in 1964 by Mike Dorsa and Tom Warner, age nine. In..... More
Vancouver: A Lone Press, 1999. 32mo. (83)pp. One of twenty-six lettered copies, printed by Rollin Milroy under the A Lone Press imprint, a precursor to his Heavenly Monkey imprint. A studious compilation of quotations and passages having to do with Francesco Griffo, his contributions to typography, and the intrigue surrounding..... More
Nappanee: Press of the Indiana Kid, 1967. (19)ff. One of 100 copies. Double title illustration and three sketches of the first airmail stamp. In addition there is an original airmail stamp commemorating the event and a photograph of an envelope that was on the first flight. Faint rubbing at corners..... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. 29 pp. From an edition of 400, this is one of 100 copies specially bound by Bela Blau. Signed by President Gerald R. Ford. The text of a September 1980 address given to the Visa International Convention in Quebec encouraging world peace for economic..... More
(London: Java Head Bookshop, 1948). 79pp. One of 500 copies. Illustrated with plates reproducing pages from important miniature books in black & white, including the Pickering Diamond Classics Odyssey. A concise history of miniature books from the 16th to 19th centuries, and a tribute to the joys of collecting miniature..... More
(Hyattsville, MD): Rebecca Press, 1989. (30)pp. One of 250 copies, signed by Rebecca Bingham. Illustrated with three full-page wood engravings and engraved endpapers by Sarah Chamberlain. A book of poetic thoughts by the famous playwright. Bound in cherry wood with a leather spine, the front cover being a miniature front..... More
(Minneapolis): Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2005. Tall quarto. (48)pp. From an edition of 226, this is one of twenty-six lettered copies, specially bound and with tipped-in editioned prints by five Minnesota artists. An anthology of original poetry from twelve Minnesota writers, including Robert Bly, Adrian Louis, Susan Steger Welsh..... More
London: Petersburg Press, 1974. One of 150 copies printed and bound as edition (A) for Europe. Henry Moore's lithographs illustrate each of the thirteen poems, as well as the dedication and the frontispiece. They dominate the landscape of the page, setting off Auden's complex verses with introspective and psychological imagery..... More
Rome: Delfino, (1985). Folio. 106pp. According to the colophon, this is one of 1,200 copies. Illustrated with ten color lithographs after drawings by Henry Moore. The editor, Dr. Stanley Wells, notes in the Foreword that this work reveals an "unsuspected spiritual kinship between one of the greatest visual artists of..... 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
Northampton: Pennyroyal Press, 1978. 16mo. (38)ff. One of thirty-five copies, signed by the illustrator, Barry Moser, on both the colophon and on each individual plate. Printed in three colors by Harold McGrath at the Pennyroyal Press, who also signed the book. A tour-de-force of wood engraving, the fourteen tiny cuts..... More
