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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Flansham Bognor: Pear Tree Press, 1919. Quarto. 14ff. One of thirty copies signed by James Guthrie on the colophon. With sixteen illustrations by Guthrie printed in single, two, or three colors directly from the plates. Six plates feature calligraphic text and illustration; seven plates contain calligraphic text only; three plates..... More
(Flansham, Bognor: Pear Tree Press, 1937). Quarto. 32, (ii)pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated with a colored wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Edward Thomas by Robin Guthrie, and with several engravings, colored vignettes, and two intaglio plates by James Guthrie. One of these intaglio plates reproduces an advertisement for Thomas's first..... More
(Flansham): Pear Tree Press, (1920). Octavo. 25pp. This collection of short children's poems is heavily illustrated with wood engravings by Stuart Guthrie, son of Pear Tree Press founder James Guthrie. The six full-page illustrations and fourteen smaller images used as head- and tailpieces are printed in four colors: blue, green..... More
Newark, NJ: Barton Press, 1969. Octavo. Seven folders, printed on three sides, + 5 silkscreen sheets. One of 200 copies, signed by the illustrator, Henry Pearson. Five colorful silkscreens, in a design form that is much like "op art," each signed on the back by Pearson, are laid-into folders on..... More
Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. Small octavo. 39pp. One of 200 copies. Symbolic frontispiece, which is explained at the colophon. Eiseley's essays, entitled "The Brown Wasps," "Big Eyes and Little Eyes," and "Endure the Night", explore the complications of self-reflection, with semi-fictional digressions evocative of feeling more than fact..... More
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1976. 12 1/2 by 20 inches. One of an edition of 50 copies. A black & white drawing by Sarah Freckelton of a sock thrown over the back of a chair on the seat of which sits a flowerpot of crocuses illustrates a journal entry..... More
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972. Oblong octavo. 22ff. One of 125 copies. Inscribed by Hamady to Ed Gulesserian, and with a TLS laid in from Hamady to John Scheffler, explaining his connection to Gulesserian and remarking upon Scheffler's long career as a typesetter. The unbound leaves of the book..... More
(Mount Horeb, WI): Perishable Press, 2003. Small quarto. (20)ff. One of 109 copies. The four artists contributed a total of ten illustrations, hand-printed from unmounted eleven-point dies, in a variety of colors. The book also employs five typefaces hand-set in five different sizes and imprinted on five different mould-made papers..... More
Goshen, NH: Phineas Press, 1973. Small broadside measuring 12 7/8 by 6 3/8 inches. One of 100 copies. Illustrated and designed by Caldecott Award-winner Nonny Hogrogian, with a line drawing of two sleeping cats. A dreamy poem about the anticipation of starting a new garden after moving to New Hamphire..... More
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1964. Small quarto. (xvi), 62pp. One of 150 copies. Eight plates, most recreating title pages. A perusal of the spread and impact of American drinking habits, from rum to wine. Bound in buckram with pictorial paper over boards. Fine. More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1983. Quarto. 190pp. One of 850 numbered copies printed by the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. Signed and dated by the author, Phoebe Jane Easton. Illustrated with six tipped-in specimens of marbled paper, mounted color frontispiece, and color plates. Some foxing to upper cover and..... 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
Basel: Franklin Éditeur, 1997. Oblong 24mo. (22)ff., unbound, printed rectos only. One of 50 copies, signed by the artist, Richard Franklin, below the colophon and inscribed as an hors d'commerce copy. Franklin's haunting woodcuts of wasted and deformed figures—often skeletal, and as horrified as they are horrifying—bookend the text and..... More
Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, 1972. Broadside. About 300 copies. A striking presentation of this fanciful poem, silkscreened in turquoise, purple and orange by Karyl Klopp. Very fine. (Measures 25 inches wide by 19 inches tall). More
Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press, 1973. Folio broadside. One of fifty copies. Signed by Karyl Klopp, proprietor of the press. A twenty-five-line poem by Mark Van Doren, beautifully printed on cream-colored paper and featuring an illustration by Karyl Klopp beside the text. Van Doren's long career as a poet and writer..... More
Pittsburgh: Press of the Nightowl, 1967. 24mo. 18pp. One of forty-nine copies. Several poems by Emmons, who was friends with Frederic Goudy. Commentary by Howard W. Coggeshall. Decorations printed in brown. Faint edgewear, else near fine in paper covers backed in orange cloth. More
Saint Paul, MN: Blinc Publishing, 2008. Broadside measuring 19 by 12 1/2 inches. One of 150 numbered copies, signed by the printer, Bill Moran. Printed on the occasion of APHA's 33rd Annual Conference, October 10-12, 2008, this broadside is decorated with wood type printed in various fonts, sizes, and colors..... More
Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940-1949. Eleven 48mo. volumes. Variously paginated. Each volume was produced as a limited edition keepsake for the area's club members. Most of the clubs represented are on the West Coast. The titles include: Pioneer Printers of the Far West (San Francisco, 1940), The Spirit of..... More
Los Angeles: Rounce & Coffin Club, 1960. Octavo. xii, 62pp. Inscribed by Cheney and by the author of the preface, H. Richard Archer. A candid recounting of the joys and pitfalls of presswork in southern California. Cheney revels in the identity of the "typesticker": a printer who fits "easily and..... More
Los Angeles: Bieler Press, 1992. Small quarto. (16)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the poet and the illustrator. Title-page engraving by Gaylor Schanilec. A selection of Gallo's poems. Bound by Robin Price into covers of Larroque Black and endpapers of Moriki Black. Light shelf-toning, else fine. More
Athens, GA: Press of the Nightowl, 1990. Octavo. 34pp. One of thirty-three copies. Signed by the author, Alexander Lawson, and the printer, Dwight E. Agner. Four wood engravings by Joseph Sanders, one of which is the frontispiece. A brief history of the function and techniques of type compositors. Fine in..... More
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(Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1961). Small folio portfolio. One of seventeen portfolios distributed by Dawson's Book Shop. Contains Dawson's contents sheet, plus 20 leaves of proof, trial, and discarded sheets, which were purchased from the daughter of C. H. St. John Hornby. These are: an eight-page signature from The..... More
Austin: Taylor, W. Thomas, 1983. Folio. 67pp. Limited to 325 copies printed at the Wind River Press. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club, New York, December 19, 1978-February 3, 1979, with a Selection of Books and Press Histories by Ruth E. Fine and William Matheson and Bibliographical..... More
