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 ...
Read more about Fine Printing
Hamburg: Kaldewey Press, 1977-1978. Folio. One of fifty copies of Kaldewey's second artist's book and the first book of the Press. This copy bears a warm inscription from Kaldewey to "friends of the Kaldewey Press for many years" on the colophon page, and dated "15/6/95." Illustrated with color Xerox copies..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1990. Tall folio. (32)pp. From an edition of 55, this is one of twenty deluxe copies. Illustrated with ten paper pulp images of Jewish symbols, such as the Star of David, the Torah pointer, and the shofar. The text of the Song of Songs is printed..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2007. Octavo. (21)ff. One of twenty-one copies, inscribed by the artist, Gunnar Kaldewey, in addition to a signature at the colophon. A retelling of a Japanese folktale, lustrously illustrated with leaves of watercolors interleaved with uncut sheets of tissue. Stab-bound with rivets in red, blue, and..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1994. Six loose sheets on architect's vellum, plus two printed posters on onion skin paper, plus six original objects by David Ireland, plus several photos and Kodaliths of Ireland's work. One of forty-six copies. Signed by both Ashbery and Ireland. David Ireland had transformed the house..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1987. Oblong small quarto. (18)pp. One of forty-five regular copies. Signed by John Ashbery and Jonathan Lasker. Three original drawings by Lasker capture his real-time reactions of Ashbery's poem (and, presumably, the act of repetition with variation throughout an entire edition). Printed and executed on handmade..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1986. Triangular small quarto. (28)pp. Of an edition of 50 copies, this is one of thirty regular. Signed by Bun-Ching Lam, whose six etchings render into visual art her original set of musical compositions that accompanied Beckett's poems. The etchings are in unusual shapes, and sometimes..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1984. Quarto. (54)pp. One of 50 regular copies. Signed by the artist, Mischa Kuball. Verses of Paul Celan's poem, printed on translucent vellum, alternate with white Fabriano paper on which Kuball has executed sharp cuts, which themselves evoke violence, fragmentation, and, aptly for Celan's titular fugue..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1998. Quarto. 28pp., frenchfold. One of forty copies, signed by the author/artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. This book is inspired by the notion of "nature as art," and was created after Kaldewey spent three months living in a traditional Japanese wooden house in Kyoto, studying the art of..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1994. Three booklets and three hanging scrolls, housed together in a clamshell box. One of forty copies. With silk screened images on translucent paper and text in three languages and several colors. Signed by the publisher/designer/author, Gunnar Kaldewey. In this work, Kaldewey explores three representative buildings..... More
Los Angeles: Kaldewey Press, 1990. Octavo. From an edition of 40, this is one of 20 copies on multi-colored paper, signed by the author. A lecture on the contemporary artist's book, which Kaldewey gave across the country at centers of art like the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and..... More
(Postenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1987). Folio. (36)pp. One of forty-five copies in a plexiglass binding by Christian Zwang of Hamburg. Signed by the author/artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. With numerous monochromatic and two-tone illustrations. Written, illustrated, designed, and printed by Gunnar Kaldewey as Volume 5 of the Kaldewey Press series. In 1977..... More
Postenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1986 (but 1992). One of seven copies, the smallest limitation of the Press. Images pulped into the paper show the outline of a face in red and, in blue, the Chinese name of Bun-Ching Lam. The accompanying text is a short, but poetic, statement about the..... More
(Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1999). Large quarto. 6ff., accordion-fold. One of thirty-eight copies on handmade paper, signed by the artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. In contrast to his previous work, 15 Kyoto Gardens, Kaldewey focuses on the phenomenon of Japan's gambling halls and Pachinko parlors. This was the first book of the..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1988. Folio. (7)ff. One of forty copies, signed by the printer/illustrator, Gunnar Kaldewey. Illustrated with seventeen linecut monoprints, appearing as rubbings or mottled silhouettes of leaves, buds, and tree branches, and printed over hand-colored backgrounds of blue and green on the volume's seven sheets of heavily..... More
(Düsseldorf: Kaldewey Press, 1981-1982). Thin oblong folio. (26)pp. From an edition of 60, this is one of thirty in German. Each leaf is printed on thin aluminum with illustrations of clouds, the letterpress text printed in blue above the clouds. This innovative and effective conjunction of images and words is..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1991. Two extreme oblong 16mos. (14); (16)pp., leporello. Each is one of 40 copies, signed by the artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. Kaldewey offers a poetic, intimate encounter with and a nostalgic history of one of America's most visited and inspiring rivers. The Hudson River was followed a...... More
(Poestenkill, NY): Edition Kaldewey, 1984. Octavo. (16)pp. One of 70 copies. The book retells the story of Brik and Mayakovsky's 1918 film, "Chained by the Film," which was largely destroyed in a fire in the 1930's. Here, Brik's retelling - Mayakovsky died by apparent suicide in 1930 - turns into..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1989. Oblong folio. 106pp. One of twenty deluxe copies printed on papier de Chine and bound in flexible blue textured leather by Christian Zwang. With twenty-five linoleum cuts in several colors by Kim Keever. Signed by the artist. Keever's linocuts draw directly from the theme of..... More
Poestenkill: Editions Kaldewey, 1992. Folio containing three oblong books of varying sizes. One of forty-five copies. The largest book presents the tale of Apollo and Daphne from Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Latin, illustrated with bold stripes, geometric shapes, and abstract swaths of color. The text's orientation on the page becomes increasingly..... More
Postenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2018. Quarto. (12)pp., accordion-fold. One of only fourteen copies. Kaldewey’s interpretation of Rilke’s poem invokes the transformative power of music by showcasing the German text, which is deeply imprinted in yellow ink. The lines are paired with bright watercolors that amplify the atmospheric and affective quality..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2013. Oblong elephant folio. (14)ff., accordion-fold. One of thirty-six copies. Printed in silver ink, with illustrations of elephants, on deep red handmade paper. The text is a poem written in Thai, and an English translation is provided on a separate sheet of paper accompanying the book..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2022. Octavo. (28)pp., + 5 plates. From an edition of thirty-three copies, this is one of eight deluxe copies, with etchings printed in turquoise, an extra suite of five woodcuts bound in at rear, and specially bound by Thomas Zwang. The etchings, which are different than..... More
NY: Kaldewey Press, 2011. Small quarto. (18)ff. One of thirty-five copies, inscribed by the artist and printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. Kaldewey's seventy-fifth publication, lovingly detailing the origins of his press and its evolution over time. Bound as loose sheets on aqua-colored cotton rag paper made by Gangolf Ulbricht, interleaved with thin..... More
Cambridge, MA: Kat Ran Press, 2014. Octavo. (16)pp. One of forty-five copies of the deluxe edition, bound by Sarah Creighton in red and orange paste paper-covered boards, and including two mint stamps designed by the author. Contains fourteen full-color reproductions of collages by Chermayeff -- faces with features crafted from..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. Small quarto. (55)pp. Eight woodcut illustrations and each page with black floral borders. A fine rendering of John Keats's poem adapted from Boccacio's Decameron. In it, a young woman engaged to marry a nobleman falls in love with a commoner. When her brothers discover..... More
