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, 2011. Octavo. 169pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by Albee and Holland at the colophon. With three watercolor illustrations by Holland 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 for... More
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 the Hebrew into the English language with facing text from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1967). Fine with minimal... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017. Small quarto. 214pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated with twenty photo-collages by 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 screenplay, with page format following... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2016. Small quarto. 96pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist at colophon. Twenty-four three-color relief prints by Newman. Each 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, who also... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Quarto. xxi, 101pp. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 200 copies 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... More
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 ink colors are matched to the sheet underneath it so that the images are revealed only when... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001. Quarto. 124pp. One of 350 copies, signed by both artists. Illustrated with six etchings by William T. Wiley and photographs by Karl Bissinger. Translated from the German by J. A. Underwood, with an Afterword by Ferdinand Protzman. A very fine copy in pictorial boards and... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1991. Quarto. (88) pp. Translated by Ezra Pound. Introductory essays by Hugh Kenner and Lowry Nelson, Jr. Illustrated with a color etching by Joseph Goldyne. One of 150 copies signed by the artist. A very fine copy in green cloth and tan goatskin. Prospectus laid in... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2009-2010. Small quarto. Two volumes: 574; 627pp. One of 400 copies. Signed by the artist at colophons of both volumes. Illustrated throughout with etchings by Wiley, whose style captures the romance, and tinge of humor, that runs through the narrative. Wiley created the prints by scratching... More
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,"... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017. Scroll, with accompanying tall quarto booklet. One of 300 copies. Signed by the Shapiro and the publisher, Andrew Hoyem. Seven woodblock prints by Shapiro and two photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge by Michael Kenna. Crane's masterwork is a massive, participatory poem that relies on a.... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Octavo. 149pp. One of 300 copies. The interspersed illustrations by Anderson are low-resolution cell phone photos of a room and its furnishings, printed on semi-translucent paper. De Maistre's text was produced during his forty-two-day confinement to his room in Turin as punishment for dueling. Bound... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2007. Small quarto. 217pp. One of 400 copies. Signed by the artist. 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 grace to... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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 a painting by R. B. Kitaj. At the end of the poem, all of the pieces of the painting come together to reveal the entire... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Quarto. 114pp. One of 276 copies. Five etchings and six woodcuts by Jim Dine. 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 an introduction by Richard Wollheim. Bound... More
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, 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 Introduction, notes, and glossary by R.... More
