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, 2003. Square quarto. (126)pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the poet and the artist. Sol Lewitt has supplied forty-eight drawings, one for each poem. Introduction by Helen Vendler. A very fine copy in gray cloth, with a dark gray cloth slipcase, both printed in black...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Quarto. 102, (3)pp. One of 360 copies, signed by the illustrator, Kara Walker, who provided sixteen lithographs that 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...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. Octavo. 32pp. One of 500 copies. A talk delivered by Andrew Hoyem on March 13, 2000 to the Club, a group of a dozen gentlemen, established in 1950, that meets ten times a year for the reading of a paper by a member at a....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1997. Quarto. 68pp. One of 200 copies, signed by Jim Dine. Illustrated with a photogravure by Dine from the portfolio of the "Ape & Cat" series. A very fine copy in cloth. Prospectus laid in. (Arion Bibliography 63).
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. Oblong quarto. 113pp. One of 400 copies. With twenty-six engravings in facsimile, which detail the historical views of the Désert, originally printed in Jardins Anglo-Chinois à la Mode by Le Rouge in 1785, and thirty-two modern photographs of the same gardens by Michael Kenna. Through...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Octavo. 121pp. One of 250 copies, signed by the artist. A science fiction story written in 1904 and inspired by the Wright Brothers' flight, which took place the year before, the work is illustrated with thirty-two drawings of flying machines by Vincent Perez, one facing...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Oblong quarto. 56pp. One of 250 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated with twelve drawings by Carroll Dunham. A satirical novella by nineteenth-century Brazilian novelist Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis about science and psychiatrists, who at the time were known as alienists for treating those...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. Oblong octavo. 18pp. One of 350 copies. Illustrated throughout with ten prints made by scratching ink printed from a block onto frosted mylar, which is then used as a negative to produce a photopolymer plate. "The Tulipomania" is a chapter from Memories of Extraordinary Popular...
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. The first play in the Arion Press drama series. A fine copy in blue-green cloth with a ring of...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1991. Octavo. 82pp. One of 750 copies, of which this is one of 250 copies bound in boards. Frontispiece portrait of the author tipped in, along with a reproduction of a Carl R. Martin drawing on the final page. A fine rendition of the author's first...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1987. Folio. 56pp. One of 425 copies, signed by the artist. Dramatic woodcuts by Richard Bosman in black, with touches of blood-red, illustrate this violent episode in New England history. With an Introduction by Glenn Todd. Very fine in coarse brown handmade paper boards backed in...
(San Francisco): Arion Press, 2009. Small quarto. 163pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated with nine tipped-in photographs of Michaels. One of the stories, "Nachman and Meg," is published here for the first time. With essays by Robert Haas and Morton Paley, Robert Pinsky, and Diana Ketcham. Bound in blue cloth...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1994. Octavo. 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...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1990. Elephant folio. 44ff., + 24pp. booklet. From an edition of 180 copies, this is one of only a few that has been hand-colored "at the heart of the book" (leaf 27) by the artist, Jim DIne. Signed by Dine on the colophon page. Illustrated with...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Octavo. 150, (3)pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the illustrator, Jonathan Hammer. 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. Introduction by Peter Stansky. Bound...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Octavo. 430pp. One of 300 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 that were taken during the approximate period in which the...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Octavo. 12pp. One of 500 copies. A talk presented by John T. Shawcross at the Arion Press on January 29, 2003, during its celebration of the publication of a new edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Bound in gray paper wrappers. Fine. (Arion Bibliography, p. 270).
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Large quarto. 143pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated throughout with fifteen drawings by Stan Washburn. The second in Arion's drama series. A very fine copy in pictorial boards and goatskin spine, with a mylar wrapper. Lacks accompanying CD...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Octavo. xvi, 108pp. One of 250 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated with sixteen photographs of majestic Western landscapes by Michael Kenna. A travel narrative written by Stevenson while honeymooning in California. On their journey, he and his new wife, Fanny Osbourne, stayed at an...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001. Oblong folio. xvi, 115pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the author, Tom Stoppard, and the artist, William Matthews. Illustrated with four reproductions of watercolor views showing the manor and landscape as they change over the course of the play. Foreword by the author. A....
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. Quarto. 52pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated with six photogravures by Bruce Conner, printed on yellow paper. The illustrations are based on collages assembed from a collection of 19th-century wood engravings that had previously been used in books...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. Oblong quarto. 143pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the artist, Martin Puryear. A complex combination of genres including fiction, drama, and poetry, Toomer's masterwork is considered perhaps the greatest achievement of Harlem Renaissance literature. Illustrated here with ten woodblock prints, most full-page, that employ...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Octavo. x, 121pp. One of 250 copies, signed by the author. The fiftieth anniversary edition, illustrated with three photographs of Vidal during his time as first mate on an Army supply ship in World War II, when this novel was first composed. Includes a new...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015. Quarto. 169pp. One of 400 copies, signed by the illustrator. The sixty-seven images created by William Kentridge depict figures created by brush and ink over dictionary pages, which could then be spread over a stage scene or rearranged to suggest new positions or gestures. Some...
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2008. Octavo. 330pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated by Stan Washburn utilizing etchings on film which are then transferred to polymer plates. A fine edition of Wells' under-appreciated novel about a fictional patent medicine, loosely based on perhaps one of the most successful such elixirs of...
