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, 1992. Large quarto. 63pp. One of 200 numbered copies, each signed by the author, Allen Ginsberg, and the artist, Ronald Brooks Kitaj. Illustrated with lithographic portraits of the poet and his mother by Kitaj. Two other poems, "White Shroud" and "Black Shroud" are also included, as... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Octavo. 356pp. One of 400 copies. Now first published, with etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts from Mythologia Ethica of Arnold Freitag (1579), the source in Latin for this translation. Transcribed and edited from the autograph manuscript (1586) in the Columbia University Library with an introduction, notes... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2010. Octavo. 296pp. One of 300 copies. Hamilton's humorous and off-hand drawings have been reproduced here by polymer plates on letterpress, with the protagonist's vacuum front and center. Bound in blue cloth over boards, depicting the cuban flag on upper and lower covers. Some foxing to... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1983. Octavo. x, 291pp., + (44)ff. One of 400 copies. This edition of Hammet's classic murder mystery, first published in 1938, is illustrated with 46 photographs of Sam Spade's San Francisco. Photographer Edmund Shea searched the photo-archives of the twenties for specific locations. Where none were... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Folio. 102, (3)pp. One of 360 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Sixteen lithographs by Walker, which appear as silhouettes viewed from behind a screen. Porgy & Bess, with its libretto written by Heyward, lyrics by Heyward and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin, is... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Octavo. 121pp. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. One of 250 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with 32 drawings by Vincent Perez, one facing each page of the story. A fine copy in sailcloth, housed in a very good mailing envelope with string-and-button tie. Prospectus laid in. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Quarto. 117pp. One of 400 copies signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated with five wood engravings, four of them full page, by Michael McCurdy. A fine copy in blue-green cloth with a ring of silver foil surrounding an actual buffalo-head nickel. Prospectus laid in. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999. Octavo. 111pp. One of 300 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Illustrated with eight line drawings by Stan Washburn. Very fine in cloth with illustration set into a recessed panel on upper cover, and paper spine label. Housed in a cloth and paper... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. Octavo. One of 400 numbered copies. This edition is based on the second edition of Paradise Lost—issued in 1674 with the text divided into twelve books rather than ten as in the first edition—and also on the Baskerville edition of 1759. Edited by the eminent... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1994. Quarto. 284pp. One of 200 copies. Nabokov's novel, presented as a poem with commentary and an index, pushes the form of fiction and "metafiction", and has been widely praised as the best demonstration of his genius. Bound in purple silk with gold circular onlay and... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Small quarto. 150, (3)pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Hammer's twenty-four images are suitably crude, often blending rough animal imagery with "civilized" items, such as a pig's feet with glasses and a tripe with a bow-tie. With an introduction by Peter Stansky... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Quarto. 430pp. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Illustrated with forty-eight vintage photographs gathered from the Museum of the City of New York, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, and the George Eastman House. A very fine copy in patternedcloth with morocco spine... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. Octavo. (xxx), 154, (11) pp. One of 200 copies. Edited and with an introduction by Helen Vendler. Except for some toning to spine, a fine copy in brocade cloth and pigskin spine and matching near fine slipcase. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. Three octavo volumes. 624; 44; (82)pp. One of 400 copies. The text volume is printed in Caslon Old Style, the typeface of the original edition, and bound in gilt-titled green half leather with hand-marbled boards. The illustrations are photo-collages by John Baldassari, contained in a.... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Octavo. xvi, 108pp. One of 250 copies, each signed by the artist. Illustrated with 16 photographs of western landscapes by Kenna. A fine copy in cork covered boards and cloth spine with cork label. Prospectus laid in. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2004. Octavo. 309pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator, photographer Stephen Shore. Shore's photographs depict scenes from modern New York City: walkways, monuments, stoops, and balconies. These images bring the novel's Gilded Age characters into the present, suggesting that their whims and worries exist... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Square quarto. 63pp. One of 300 numbered copies, each signed by the artist. Illustrated with twenty-one woodblock prints by Mel Kendrick. A very fine copy in black cloth with laser cut wood veneer mounted to the two boards, backed in black morocco. Prospectus laid 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
Mission, BC, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2015. 16mo. (74)pp. From an edition of 140 copies, this is one of 90 copies in the Regular state. Each ode begins with a woodcut by English. The volume contains all five of Keats' "Great Odes" and three others: "Ode: Bards of Passion", "Ode on... More
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Quarto. xlv, 193pp. From a total edition of 1,100 copies, this is one of 100 deluxe copies bound in full vellum, with an extra, enlarged set of the five pictorial initials tipped-in. Out of the 24 drawings planned, Beardsley lived only long enough to complete five... More
Davis, CA: Library Associates, University Library, University of California, Davis, 1979. Two copies of a poster designed by Richard Bigus announcing the "Five Fine Printers" exhibit and related events at the Memorial Union Art Gallery at the University of California, Davis. The exhibit ran from February 22 to April 10... More
Richard Bigus, 1978. Broadside measuring 21 3/8 by 14 3/4 inches. From an edition of 200 copies, this is a proof copy signed by Richard Bigus. Designed and printed by Bigus in two colors. Fine. More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. Small quarto. 120pp. One of 300 copies printed on handmade Bird & Bull "Nagashuzuki" paper. Illustrated with twenty-four drawings by Richard Flavin and fourteen 4" x 5" samples of paper. Fine in quarter-morocco and floral decorated Japanese paper. (Bird & Bull Bibliography A22). More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1986. Octavo. 124pp. One of 325 copies. With a Preface by Elaine Koretsky. Contains 40 paper samples of great variety and interest, collected by McClure, a botanist who lived in China from 1919 to 1941. These include brilliant dyed papers for ceremonial use, rough... More
(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1967. Octavo. 121pp. From an edition of 500 copies, this is an out-of-series copy in a 1968 trial binding by Jean Millard. According to a penciled note on the front endpaper, there were two copies bound thus, and the note mentioned that "L. Schlosser... More
