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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San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015. Quarto, plus archival box containing leaves. 307pp. From an edition of 550 copies, this is one of 100 accompanied by a portfolio of original leaves from each of the 100 books recorded in the bibliography. With contributions by Kevin Starr, Glenn Todd, Peter Kraus, and...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Octavo. 63pp. One of 500 copies. With a preface by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and an Introduction by the Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin. Printed in the very readable Deepdene type designed by Frederic Goudy, handset on handmade Twinrocker paper. The initial letters...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011. Octavo. 169pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the author, Edward Albee, and the artist, Tom Holland. With three watercolor illustrations reproduced here by inkjet. Albee's play centers on the anxieties and dysfunction of a group of upper-middle-class suburbanites. The play won the Pulitzer Prize...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Folio. (50)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the translator and the artist. Michael Mazur has supplied a single etching as the frontispiece. Translated by Robert Alter from Hebrew into English, with facing text from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1967). Fine with minimal edgewear in purple...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017. Small quarto. 214pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the author. Illustrated with twenty photo-collages by John Baldessari, based on stills from B-movies. These images were then set before Bentley, who authored twenty scenes to accompany them. The volume has been crafted as a mock...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2016. Small quarto. 96pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the artist, John Newman, who has provided twenty-four three-color relief prints. Each illustration recreates a drawing made between 1988 and 2016 of a small sculpture. The volume contains thirty-nine of Bishop's poems, selected by Helen Vendler...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Quarto. xxi, 101pp. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 200 with a photographic portrait of the author by Edmund Shea and a signed chromolithograph by Wayne Thiebaud. The portrait is printed here for the first time. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn, who...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999. Folio. (164)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated with twelve images by Wayne Thiebaud reproduced on transparent mylar sheets using different ink colors. The colors are matched to the sheet underneath so that the images are revealed only when the transparent sheet...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1991. Folio. (88)pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated with an etching hand-colored by Joseph Goldyne. The sonnets by Cavalcanti, Dante's mentor and friend, are here translated from the original Italian by Ezra Pound. Introductory essays by Hugh Kenner, on Pound, and Lowry...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2009-2010. Two octavo volumes. 574; 627pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the artist in both volumes. Illustrated throughout with etchings by William T. Wiley, whose style captures the romance, and tinge of humor, that runs throughout the narrative. Wiley created the prints by scratching the...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2009. Large octavo. 274pp., + 68 pages of color and black & white photographs. One of 300 copies, signed by the author and the artist. The fiftieth anniversary edition of Connell's novel, which has been regarded as "probably the great feminist novel written by a man,"...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017. Scroll, with accompanying tall quarto booklet. One of 300 copies, signed by the artist, Joel Shapiro, and the publisher, Andrew Hoyem. Illustrated with seven woodblock prints by Shapiro and two photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge by Michael Kenna. Crane's masterwork is a massive, participatory poem...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Octavo. 149pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the artist on the last plate. The thirty-two interspersed illustrations by Ross Anderson are low-resolution cell phone photos of a room and its furnishings, printed on semi-translucent paper. They provide the perfect accompaniment through which to view...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Small quarto. 217pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the artist, Kiki Smith. Each of Dickinson's poems is illustrated with an etching styled after a sewing sampler. The images and text, both as quiet and solitary activities, work together to grant a certain nobility and...
Dallas: Arion Press, 1980. Quarto. xiv, 270pp. One of 300 copies, printed by the Arion Press for Neiman Marcus. Maps and diagrams throughout, including one fold-out, by David Fuller, and a portrait of Dobie by Andrew Hoyem. Printed in black and red with gold initials drawn by Sumner Stone. An...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2008. Quarto. (96)pp. One of 275 copies. Illustrated with two photographs, two etchings by Frank Lobdell, and an etching with aquatint by Lobdell in a separate folder that accompanies the book. In the prospectus for this edition, Andrew Hoyem notes that this is the first time...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Octavo. (xii), 31pp. One of 250 copies, being a faithful reprint of the 1775 edition, which was the the third treatise in English on the subject of hunting birds. A very fine copy bound in marbled boards with leather spine. Housed in a matching slipcase. (Arion Bibliography 40).
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Square quarto. 66pp. One of 300 copies. A deluxe edition of T. S. Eliot's poem, illustrated throughout with fragments of the painting "If Not, Not" by R. B. Kitaj. At the end of the poem, all of the pieces of the painting come together to...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. Folio. One of 300 copies, signed by the author, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the illustrator, R. B. Kitaj. The volume opens with a frontispiece portrait of Ferlinghetti in profile, reproduced from a charcoal drawing on handmade paper. First published in 1958, this collection of poems contains...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2016. Folio. 225, (2)pp. One of 300 copies. Introduction and translation by Mark Polizzotti. In this, Flaubert's comedic final novel, two mid-nineteenth century copyists begin to conduct improbable experiments based on misinformation gathered from random readings. Reflecting the occupations of the heroes, all pages of the...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2006. Octavo. 187pp. One of 400 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Franklin, taken from his image on the one-hundred dollar bill, to reflect his advocacy of paper currency. Published in celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of Franklin's birth. Printed in Aitken type, a digital recreation of the...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Quarto. 114pp. One of 276 copies, signed by the artist, Jim Dine, who has provided five etchings and six woodcuts. Dine's illustrations, with their dark and crude style, give life and real psychological impact to one of Freud's most influential and disconcerting case studies. With...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Quarto. 63pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the author, Allen Ginsberg, and the artist, Ronald Brooks Kitaj. Illustrated with lithographic portraits of the poet and his mother. Two other poems, "White Shroud" and "Black Shroud," are also included, as further remembrances of Ginsberg's mother...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1977. Two quarto volumes. 192; 44pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with beautiful six-line illuminated initials in gold and colors by Thomas Ingmire. Issued together with a companion volume containing Arthur Golding's epistle dedicatory from Calvin's Commentaries (1571), together with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2006. Small quarto. 169pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the author and the artist. Fourteen plates of Mark Ulriksen's illustrations, which depict pivotal scenes from the first game of the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians. All in black...
