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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Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France: Allen Press, 1952. Octavo. 60pp. One of 300 copies. With pochoir decorations by Ray Bethers. An early publication of the Press, when they were known as the L-D Allen Press. This was the first Book Club of California title to be printed outside the United States. Fine in... More about La Porte de Maletroit
(N.p. Flagless Editions, 1984). 16mo. (21)pp. One of 167 copies. Cover illustration based on an unfinished series of lithographs by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. The text of this unusual alphabet poem was written by John Lennon in February 1969 for inclusion in the portfolio Bag One. Designed and printed... More about Bag Two. The Alphabet According to John Lennon
(N.p., n.d.). An original linoleum block print measuring 8 by 10 inches, tastefully matted and framed. Valenti Angelo here employs bold use of line and cross-hatching to show the texture of these trees, which are in the foreground, set against a predominantly black backdrop. Inscribed by the artist to Henry... More about Linoleum block print of a Western fir tree
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1978. Small quarto. (16)ff. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with four woodcuts by Thomas. These depict the brutal scenes of the story, including the children's refusal to bow before King Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol and the angel saving the children from burning. Above the story from the... More about The Song & Story of the Three Holy Children: Shadrach, Meshach & Abed-Nego
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1993. Octavo. x, 107pp. One of 40 copies in bindings hand-painted by Carolyn Hammer and Paul Holbrook, from an edition of 75 copies printed by Hammer, in Victor Hammer's American Uncial typeface, the rest (in marbled boards) of which were given away as gifts. With initialed... More about The Tempest
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1964. Small quarto. (16)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Signed by the author and the printer. This scarce item was printed for the author by his friend Ronald Gordon, now the proprietor of the Oliphant Press in New York. With eight vignettes taken from wood engravings by... More about In His Way
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1957. Tall quarto. 16ff. One of 100 copies. The second book of the Press. Illustrated with twenty woodcuts, four of which are printed in two colors, engraved by Smith College students Judith Gustafson, Margaretta Kuhlthau, Gillian Lewis, and Mary Alice Taylor. Presentation inscription from Margaretta "Sis"... More about Eighteen Poems
Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, 2005. Folio. (45)ff. One of 80 copies. Contains thirty-seven illustrations depicting American inventions ranging from the profound (Morse code, cloning, etc.) to the underappreciated (American cheese singles, flyswatter, etc.). Printed using "metal foundry type, wood type, linoleum blocks, laser-cut masonite, and digital polymer plates." Occasionally mixed... More about Thingamajigs: 300 Years of American Invention
San Francisco & Berkeley: Pacific Editions & Arif Press, 1986. Quarto. 36pp. One of 165 copies, signed by the author and artist. "A collaboration among artists," this work contains four essays by Dr. Lewis Thomas, each accompanied by a specially commissioned color etching by Joseph Goldyne, plus one additional etching... More about Quartet
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... More about Bibliography of the Arion Press: The First One Hundred Books
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... More about Constitution of the United States. Published for the Bicentennial of its Adoption in 1787
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... More about A Delicate Balance
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... More about Genesis
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... More about Scenes from the Cutting-Room Floor
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... More about Trout Fishing in America
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... More about Invisible Cities
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... More about Thirty-Three Sonnets of Guido Cavalcanti
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... More about Don Quixote
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 about Mrs. Bridge
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... More about The Bridge
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... More about Journey Round My Room
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 about Coronado's Children. Tales of Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of the Southwest
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 about The Structure of Rime
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 about A Coney Island of the Mind
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 about Bouvard & Pecuchet
