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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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
Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. Folio. 54pp. With a Preface by Strouse and a Note by the Printer, Leonard F. Bahr. From an edition of 329, this is one of seventy-five copies with a Bible leaf on handmade paper and a quarto leaf on vellum. In this copy, the paper..... More
(N.p. 1989). Small quarto. 10ff. A one-of-a-kind manuscript, completely hand-bound, lettered, painted, and signed by the artist Nancy Leavitt. Leavitt's superlative skill as a calligrapher is clear in this illustration of Suzanne Vega's song of loss and urequited love, "Calypso." Vega retells the beginning of the Odyssey from the perspective..... 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, 2010. Folio. 37pp. One of 500 copies, signed by the photographer, Robert Frank, and David Armitage, who contributed the Afterword, with a frontispiece photogravure of Frank's "Jay, New York" (1954). Frank's photograph, on its surface, captures the nostalgia and national pride characteristic of 1950s America. A...... 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
Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1988. Small quarto. 136pp. One of ten copies bound in full vellum by Jenifer Lindsay. Handsomely illustrated with black & white drawings by Michèle Forgeois. Calligraphic variations on the letters "R" and "J" by Mark Livingston are printed in the margins in lush purple, orange, green..... 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
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
London: J.H. Mason, 1935. Quarto. 42pp. One of 130 copies. Translated and privately printed by J.H. Mason, who conceived of this volume shortly after he began working as compositor for the Doves Press around 1900. It marks the only title he published under his own name. Mason commissioned Vivien Gribble..... 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
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
Jay, Vermont: Whitney McDermut, 1934. 48mo. A bookplate designed and printed by Whitney McDermut, featuring a view of the Earth from space above a scientific laborartory, and bordered in red with the names of various eminent scientists, from Copernicus to Edison to Faraday. Pasted into bifold marbled paper. Fine. 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, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Quarto. (20)pp., + 6 plates. The printer's copy, outside an edition of twenty-six lettered copies. A bibliography of works published from 2000-2010 by Rollin Milroy's two printing ventures, Heavenly Monkey and A Lone Press. Sample sheet from six Heavenly Monkey books append the volume. Printed..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Octavo. (12)pp. One of fifty copies. A compilation of several works, poetic and in prose, all with illustrations of varying techniques. The contributors—Harold Budd, Scott Morgan, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Barbara Hodgson, and Hermann Ihlenburg—all would be working with Heavenly Monkey on projects over the coming year..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Small quarto. (18), (8)ff. One of twenty copies comprising the regular edition. This work celebrates the many varieties of metal type "purchased for, adopted by, & abandoned at Heavenly Monkey during the studio's first fifteen years" and is printed on a selection of nine different..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Small quarto. (26), (9)ff. From an edition of thirty-five copies, this is "not Rollin's." This work celebrates the many varieties of metal type "purchased for, adopted by, & abandoned at Heavenly Monkey during the studio's first fifteen years" and is printed on a selection of..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2008). Quarto. 13pp. One of five hors de commerce copies, with a piece of Doves Press ephemera printed on paper in place of the vellum leaf described on the title page. Hand-set and printed on dampened paper by Rollin Milroy. Bound and tooled by Claudia Cohen in..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Quarto. (28)pp. From an edition of fifty copies, this is one of forty that comprise the regular edition. Frontispiece wood engraving by Minegishi depicts "Mr. Milroy's Gate to a Wonder World". An impressive, comprehensive specimen book displaying the nine roman and eleven italic types that..... More
Marcham, Oxford: Alembic Press, 1995. (20)pp. One of 110 copies. Six woodcuts by Brett, printed in burgundy and black. These punctuate the Te Deum hymn, which is tidily presented using type from St. Mary's Press, the private press of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin. The music rests on..... More
Marcham: Alembic Press, 2001. 37pp. One of 100 copies. A small and tender journal of wintertime of garden activities. Illustrated with hand-colored etchings by Lawson-Hall. Stab-bound in gray wrappers with title stamped on upper cover. Fine. (2 7/8 by 2 13/16; 73x71mm). More
(Fullerton, CA: Lorson's Books & Prints / Whittington Press, 1986). (16)ff. From an edition of 200 copies printed at the Whittington Press for Lorson's Books & Prints, this is one of fifty deluxe copies with an extra set of proofs. Contains thirteen beautiful hand-colored wood engravings of wine-related activities. Very..... More
