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, 2019. Tall quarto. 18, (10)pp., + two tipped-in leaves. From an edition of 55 copies, this is one of five copies hors de commerce. 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
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 twenty-eight copies that includes an opening leaf with one full-page illustration, initials, and border, with plain text on the reverse. The illustration was designed by Edward Burne-Jones..... 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, (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. One of thirty copies. 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..... 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
London: Artists' Choice Editions, 2011. Quarto. 138, (6)pp. From an edition of 420, this is one of ten "Exemplary" copies, bound in full leather and accompanied by a suite of four prints and a copy of Lord's List: A Selection of Publications by John Vernon Lord. Signed by Lord at..... 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
Cambridge, MA: Bow & Arrow Press, 1993. Small quarto. (iv), 16pp. Deluxe edition, one of fifty copies, signed by the author, Melinda Marble, and artist, Michael Mazur, and with two original drypoint etchings. This first book by Marble is the haunting tale of a girl troubled by her origins, and..... 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
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
Collingswood, NJ: Washburn, William Lewis, 1935. (21)ff. From an edition of sixty-four copies, this is one of forty-seven copies bound in paste-paper wrappers. Contains four literal translations of the Rubaiyat passage, plus FitzGerald's longer, more fanciful version, as well as two comparable Biblical extracts. With an introduction by Clarke W...... More
