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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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 about Musik: Atem der Statuen
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2016. Quarto. (12)ff., + 4 full-page illustrations from watercolors by Gunnar Kaldewey. One of only ten copies comprising the deluxe edition, which is specially bound and adds three original watercolors. The 84th publication of the Kaldewey Press presents a poem by the 12th-century troubadour, Jaufre Rudel... More about Lanquan li jorn son lonc en Mai
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 about Elephant Lullaby
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 about Why Stamps?
Bainbridge, PA: Katydid Press, 1956-1960. A selection of eleven titles from the Katydid Press. Titles include: George Washington, by Thomas Jefferson. 1956. 16mo. (14)pp. From an edition of sixty copies, this is one of forty-eight on Basingwerk parchment. Frontispiece woodcut of Washington. Bound in printed paper over boards. Tanned, with light... More about Group of Katydid Press books
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. Octavo. (iv), 82pp. One of 350 copies. Frontispiece cut after designs by Edward Burne-Jones. Borders and initials by William Morris. This is the second of three medieval romances printed by Morris. Bound in holland-backed blue boards, with faint soiling to boards and some foxing to the... More about The Romance of Sire Degrevaunt
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1893). Octavo. xiv, 282pp. One of 300 copies. Printed in Chaucer and Troy type in red and black. With woodcut initials and opening grapevine border. Edited by F. S. Ellis and with a Foreword by William Morris. Text is mostly unopened and very clean and crisp. Original... More about Utopia. Written by Sir Thomas More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895). Quarto. (iv) 355pp. One of 200 copies. Printed in red and black, with two full-page illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones and initials and decorations by Morris. A beautiful and highly prized volume, originally intended to be part of The Earthly Paradise. Overall, a fine copy in original... More about The Life and Death of Jason
Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 16mo. 68pp. One of 500 copies. Woodcut title page, and facing page with full woodcut border. Printed in Chaucer type in black, with shoulder notes and colophon page in red. Three-, seven- and thirteen-line initials. Exterior expectedly toned, some rubbing to spine and edges, else near... More about Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile
(N.p.): Kerberos Press, 2011. Octavo. 28ff. One of twenty copies. Signed by both artists on colophon. Presented as an unbound collection of twelve detail illustrations of twelve different species of solitary bees, each with an accompanying description of its physical and social characteristics, its habitats, and its recorded locations around... More about Hymenoptera, Twelve Specimens
(Utah): Rainmaker Editions, 2003. Small quarto. (21)pp. One of 399 copies. Signed by Soyinka, Kleinschmidt, and Victoria Hindley, the book's designer and the creative director of the Red Butte Press. Kleinschmidt's woodcuts adorn the two-page title page and three pages interspersed with the text. Soyinka's poems evoke the humanity of... More about Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known
NY: Ursus Books, 2007. 15pp. From an edition of 74 copies, this is one of 50 numbered copies, signed by the artist, Joseph Goldyne, and the designer, Peter Rutledge Koch. Illustrated with a signed etching by Goldyne titled "As the Blind Remember," printed on seventeenth-century paper and tipped in as... More about The Invisible Collection
(Philadelphia): Philadelpia College of Art, 1972. Quarto. (18)pp. One of eleven copies. Inscribed by the artist, Susan Kronfeld, to Stuart Schimmel, who served on the Grolier Club council and whose personal collections and public curatorial positions allowed him to continually present exhibits to the New York community. Kronfeld's eight color... More about A Tragedy
Berkeley: Peter Koch, (1991). Square 16mo. (34)pp., frenchfold. One of 126 copies. Each letter of this alphabet was printed by Peter Koch from a photo-engraving of the original papercut. Bound by the artist in black cloth-covered stab-sewn boards with title label to front cover, and alphabetic paste-paper paste-downs. Very fine. More about Alphabet Book
Kentfield, CA: L-D Allen Press, 1954. Octavo. 146pp. One of 175 copies. Wood engravings by Dean herald the beginnings of each journal section. Edited, selected, and translated by Francis Carmody. Minor general wear to extremities, else a fine copy bound in pictorial cloth. With the bookplate of James David Zellerbach... More about The Private Journals of Stendhal 1811-1817
(Torrance, CA): Labyrinth Editions, 1980. Folio. 28ff., frenchfold. One of 250 copies, signed by the poet and the artist. Designed and printed in two colors by Richard Bigus. Killion's beautifully executed, white-line linocuts are printed in dark blue. The title illustration is a triptych of the crucifixion, on a two-page... More about Eastward the Armies. Selected Poems 1935-1942 that Present the Poet's Pacifist Position through...
Boston: Heron Press, 1969. Octavo. (47)pp. One of 150 copies. Five illustrations in wood and metal by Chandler, printed on near-translucent tan paper. Introduction by Thomas Heffernan. Bound in cloth-backed marbled boards. Very fine. More about A Ballad of the Cinema Kid
Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, 1981. Quarto. 28pp. One of 164 copies. Scriptores Astronomici Veteres is a collection of Greek and Roman astrological texts, of which the most important is Maternus's Mathesis, the most extenstive astrological book from antiquity. Here, the original leaf is from Liber Octavus, printed by Aldus... More about Julius Firmicus Maternus and the Aldine Edition of the Scriptores Astronomici Veteres
NY: Society of Foliophiles, (1925). Quarto. One of 200 copies printed for the Society of Foliophiles, containing 20 original leaves from notable books of English literature from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Unbound, as issued, with each leaf in its respective, annotated folder measuring 12 1/2 by 9 1/2... More about Printed Pages from English Literature
(McMinnville, OR): Bird & Bull Press for Philip J. Pirages, 1991. Octavo. 132pp. One of 275 copies. The leaf is from a copy of Volume I of the Sweynheym and Pannartz first edition of Nicholas of Lyra's Postilla super totam bibliam, completed on 18 November 1471 in the Palazzo Massimo... More about Sweynheym & Pannartz and the Origins of printing in Italy: German Technology and Italian...
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1938. Quarto. (2)ff.,15pp. One of 260 copies. The original leaf is from folio ccxiii of the Pynson 1509 edition. The essay by James D. Hart is decorated on each page with charming color-printed facsimiles of woodcut fools. Leaf lightly stained, else fine. Bound in linen-backed printed... More about An Original Leaf from the First Edition of Alexander Barclay's English Translation of Sebastian...
San Francisco: (Grabhorn Press), 1939. 12mo. (9)pp. One of 55 copies. Tipped in after the title page, the leaf features a large woodcut of John Heywood at his desk. On the window behind him, several spiders observe a fly trapped in a web. On the verso of the page are... More about The Spider and the Flie, with an original leaf from the edition of 1556
(Southbury, CT): Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. Folio. 75pp. One of 285 copies printed at A. Colish, Inc., with typography by Jerry Kelly. A handsome and exhaustive account of the publication of what is considered by many to be D. B. Updike's magnum opus, together with a vellum leaf from the... More about The Making of the Book of Common Prayer of 1928. Accompanied by an Original Leaf Printed on...
San Francisco: Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop, 1962. Quarto. 20pp. One of 76 copies printed and illustrated by Henry Evans at the Peregrine Press for the Porpoise Bookshop. With illustrations throughout in pale terracotta. This leaf book explores the contents of a journal recording the business transactions of a.... More about Champagne and Shoes. An Essay on John T. Little's Coloma Emporium with an Original Double Leaf...
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Bernard Rosenthal and Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1971. Folio. 13pp. One of 193 copies printed for Bernard Rosenthal and Zeitlin & Ver Brugge at the Plantin Press, with an original leaf printed on vellum by Peter Schoeffer at Mainz in 1472. It is one of... More about Two Essays on the Decretum of Gratian
