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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Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Bernard Rosenthal and Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1971. Folio. 13pp. One of 193 copies printed for Bernard Rosenthal and Zeitlin & Ver Brugge at the Plantin Press, with an original leaf printed on vellum by Peter Schoeffer at Mainz in 1472. It is one of... 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
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1958. Octavo. 30pp. One of 200 copies printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press. This original leaf from a Book of Hours was likely written and illuminated in Paris during the first portion of the fifteenth century. It bears four initials accented... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1950. Tall quarto. 62pp. One of 300 copies printed by the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. The leaf is from the portion of the Chronicle on the sixth age of the world. It bears two woodcuts on the recto and six... More
(Fullerton, CA): Stone & Lorson, 1985. Folio. 23pp. From an edition of 115 copies, this is one of 89 copies quarter-bound in vellum, together with an original bifolium leaf from the edition of 1619. This copy contains a full hand-colored map of Palatinatus Bavariae in southwestern Germany, complete with text... 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
Bainbridge, PA: Katydid Press, 1956-1960. A selection of eleven titles from the Katydid Press. Titles include: George Washington, by Thomas Jefferson. 1956. 16mo. (14)pp. From an edition of sixty copies, this is one of forty-eight on Basingwerk parchment. Frontispiece woodcut of Washington. Bound in printed paper over boards. Tanned, with light... 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
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Art Laboratory, 1945-1966. A group of nine publications produced by the Wesleyan Art Laboratory. The Art Lab was Wesleyan's first studio art space, begun by Russell T. "Butch" Limbach, who arrived at the university in 1941 as an artist-in-residence. Limbach, whose work had been exhibited throughout the... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Quarto. (219)pp. One of 550 copies. Beginning with the Club's genesis, the letters, presented in facsimile, announce new publications produced under the Club's auspices. These include Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo with woodcuts by Frans Masereel (October 1930), The Chimes by Charles Dickens with... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Square octavo. xxxii, 306pp. One of 1500 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with 22 geometric black-and-white drawings by Lewitt, whose art, according to critic Robert Rosenblum, offers "a world of endlessly expanding mazes." Spine somewhat toned, else near fine in full black cowhide and matching black slipcase. More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1987. Folio. xiv, 104pp. One of 750 copies signed by the illustrator, Roberto Juarez, and the author of the Introduction, John Hersey. Illustrated with seven etchings by Juarez that were printed "chine collé" on handmade Japanese tissue and adhered to handmade Richard de Bas paper. Translated... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1989. Folio. xv, 41pp. One of 650 copies signed by the author and the photographer. Illustrated with two black & white photogravures of Greek ruins by Marie Cosindas. The first English-language edition of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's version of the Oedipus story, with translation by Leila Vennewitz and... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1988. Quarto. xiii, 93pp. One of 850 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with two full-page colored etchings by Welliver whose work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many other museums. With an introduction by Cleanth Brooks. Fine in morocco-backed linen... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Quarto. (112)pp. One of 1500 copies Signed by Hersey, Lawrence, and Robert Penn Warren who wrote a new poem to accompany the text. Eight leaves of full-color plates by Lawrence. Hersey's account of his 1946 visit to Hiroshima first appeared in The New Yorker. The... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (2000). Folio. (38)ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Illustrated with six collages by Betye Saar, transformed into serigraphs via the silk-screen method and printed by the Drexel Press. Text printed at Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari's Golgonooza Letter Foundry and Press in brown... More
(NY: Limited Editions Club, 1986). Small quarto. xviii, 289pp. One of 1000 copies signed by the Irish photographer, Robert Ballagh, and Thomas Flanagan who wrote the Introduction. Ballagh's images, reproduced in photogravure by Jon Goodman, capture the familiarity and isolation of the stories. With only minimal foxing to endpapers, a.... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, 1990. Small quarto. 183pp. One of 375 copies. Signed by the illustrator at colophon. Eight lithographs by 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 by... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, (1988). Large folio. (70)pp. One of 550 copies with an authorized facsimile of the artist's signature. Illustrated with seventeen lithographs by 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, "Ode... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, (1994). Folio. 12ff. One of 300 numbered 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, Massachusetts, this trilingual edition of Octavio Paz's poem is illustrated with... More
(New York): Limited Editions Club, (1987). Large square 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... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, 1992. Small quarto. 34pp + 7 inserted plates. Signed by the artist. With seven color woodcuts by Clemente set sharply against the soft Japanese Ogawashi paper and black Monotype Lutetia type. Pound's take on the Chinese of Rihaku - Li T'ai Po relies, as is noted... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1983. Small quarto. xix, 210pp. One of 2000 copies. Signed by the artist and the author at colophon. Eight lithographs in swirling colors capture the magic and vibrancy of the Caribbean islands, and bring tangibility to Walcott's effusive verses. Also included is a lithograph laid in... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1990). Folio. (18)ff. One of 550 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with six photographs by Aaron Siskind, recreated as gravure prints by Paul Taylor of Hinsdale, NH and impressed by Clary Nelson on mould-made paper. Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Dan Carr. The text... 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
