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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NY: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Folio. (i), 23ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by Maya Angelou and the artist, Phoebe Beasley. Illustrated with silkscreens of six collages by Beasley. This collection of poems by Langston Hughes was selected by Angelou, who also wrote the Introduction and Afterword. Although Hughes was..... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, (1994). Folio. 12ff. One of 300 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, MA, on handmade Kozo Uwazen paper, this trilingual edition of Paz's poem..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 2000. Quarto. 64, (2)pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the artist, Eikoh Hosoe, and the calligrapher, Shunkei Yahagi. Illustrated with three photogravures by Hosoe. Tanizaki, one of Japan’s most celebrated writers, sheds light on true human experience through sometimes shocking depictions of sexuality and family..... More
Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1900. Small quarto. 86pp. One of 245 copies. Facsimile photograph and signature of author on frontispiece. A reprinting of John Locke Scripps' biography of Abraham Lincoln. Scripps' work marked the first personal history of Lincoln and is here edited by Scripps' daughter Grace Locke Scripps Dyche. Laid..... 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
Prague, Czechoslovakia and Vestal, NY: Robert Marx and Ivan Ruzicka, 1966. Octavo. (28)ff. One of twenty-five copies, signed by the artist, Robert Marx, and the translator and binder, Ivan Ruzicka, below the colophon, and initialled by Marx on the title page. Marx’s etched portraits of old women, all numbered and..... More
London: British Institute of Industrial Art, 1926. Octavo. 24pp. A treatise on the then-current state of the industry and instruction of printing. Bound in gray wrappers, somewhat toned and shelf-worn. A very good copy. More
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1976. Octavo. xvi, 192pp. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Mason, taken in 1925. Reproductions of typographic and manuscript work scattered throughout the text. A rather authoritative and comprehensive biography of J. H. Mason, printer and instructor eminent during the rise of private presses in England and Europe..... 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
(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 text the story lost..... 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
East Barnard, VT: Hand and Spoon / Diane Meaker, 1971. Oblong 48mo. (9)ff. One of twelve copies. Inscribed by the artist at the front flyleaf, "for Georgia with love/from Diane". Meaker's four glossy prints pair color spectrums and repeated images of stars, flowers, and menorah-like trees with the lines of..... 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
(Stockholm, WI): Midnight Paper Sales, 2004. Quarto. (7)ff., loose. Printed limitation states one of 110 copies, but handwritten limitation to title sheet indicates one of 60, the last 50 perhaps never realized. Signed twice by the artist and printer, and by each of the contributing authors: Li-Young Lee, Richard Ford..... More
(Vancouver, B.C. The 704 Press, 1997). 8ff. One of twelve copies, this one out of series. Printed by Rollin Milroy "under the guidance of Jan and Crispin Elsted at Barbarian Press," this represents Milroy's first printed book—a surreal poetic sequence by the Back to the Future actor, who would issue..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2004. (25)ff. One of fifty copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by Shinsuke Minegishi that explore the alternative possibilities presented by the form of various bits of human anatomy. The engravings of a beetle earring on an ear, two feet holding an apple..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2004. 20ff. One of 55 copies. A near-miniature flipbook printed on the rectos only, produced as a Christmas keepsake for subscribers of Heavenly Monkey, illustrated with a flying dove by Kara Sievewright. The instructions direct the reader to "Flip the bird," which, when followed, cause the dove..... 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
(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
NY: Serigrafia Limited, (1990). Elephant folio. (7)ff. One of 300 copies. A set of six illustrations crafted and signed by six different artists: Barry Moser, Maurice Sendak of Where the Wild Things Are, Chris Van Allsburg of The Polar Express, Seymour Chwast, Daniel Pelavin, and Guy Billout. The range of..... More
(Pasadena): Vance Studley, 2005. One of twenty copies. Six engravings, each signed and numbered by Moser. These images portray dogs and cats (usually separately, but in one instance together and surprisingly at peace) with nobility and familiarity. The prefatory sheets show, on the first, a Dogon Greeting and publication information..... More
