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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Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. Oblong octavo. 77pp.(25) ff. One of 325 copies. The first third of this handsome book consists of correspondence between Hans Schmoller and Morris dealing with the problems of the book itself. The second part by Tanya Schmoller is text about the Chinese tea chest..... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. Quarto. x, 49, 24 pp. + (31)ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates, nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors, and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. Octavo. 161pp. One of 325 copies. Illustrated with eighteen black & white photographs and drawings, fourteen full-color photographs of Kinder's bindings, and thirteen pages of black & white impressions of Kinder's bookbinding stamps. A thorough examination of one of America's finest binders and of..... More
(Dallas, TX): Alisa Banks, 2016. Octavo. (4)pp., unbound. One of four copies. Signed by the artist/author Alisa Banks. Three stark photographs of plants from Banks' own garden, composed so that their subjects seem both foreign and familiar. Banks' meditation on gardening evokes much of the same; her nostalgia for the..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1998. Folio. (i), 23ff. One of 300 copies, signed by Maya Angelou and the artist, Phoebe Beasley. Illustrated with silkscreens of six collages by Beasley. This collection of poems by Langston Hughes was selected by Maya Angelou, who also wrote the Introduction and Afterword. Although Hughes..... More
Worcester, VT: Dragon Dance Theatre, 1993. Folio. (15)ff. One of sixty copies, signed by the artist, Sam Kerson. Illustrated with fifteen linocuts, printed in black & white by the Montreal-based artist Sam Kerson. The linocuts depict scenes related to Vermont’s involvement in the Underground Railroad. Vermont has a long history..... More
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., (2005-2018). Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks’s determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful..... More
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., (2005-2018). Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks’s determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful..... More
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., (2005-2018). Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks’s determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful..... More
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., (2005-2018). Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Each installment in this series highlights Parks’s determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful..... More
Connecticut River Valley, MA: SAW Press, 2018. Octavo. (22)ff. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Shirley Ann Whitaker. Ashes to Ashes was originally a performance piece held in 2016, in which Whitaker organized the first-ever funeral service to commemorate and mourn the thousands of African Americans who have..... More
(Parma: Stamperia Reale, 1779). Octavo. xii, 296pp. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poetess crowned with a laurel wreath, eleven beautifully-engraved vignettes and twelve culs-de-lamp. This elegantly-printed volume was published in commemoration of the coronation of poet Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez with laurels on the Capitol in..... More
NY: Elston Press, 1901. Small quarto. (xv), 68pp. One of 485 copies on Holland hand-made paper, in boards with vellum spine. Unopened. Decorated with initials by H. M. O'Kane, floral devices, and a printer's device on the title page. The text is a 1345 treatise on book collecting written by..... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 158pp. One of 250 copies. A collection of songs by von der Vogelweide, a medieval poet and minstrel, whose songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of the era's German love lyric. He is also responsible for using poetry to political ends, and was the..... More
(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of twelve bound by James Brockman. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings printed on handmade paper from the original blocks that were cut by Underwood in the 1920s and ‘30s. Underwood’s Brook..... More
Boston: Bromer, Anne & David, 1984. Quarto. 38pp. First edition. One of 225 copies printed in three colors by Richard Bigus at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Greg Dearth and a specimen sheet printed in three colors on parchment. Hand-bound by Claudia Cohen in quarter-vellum and..... More
Vancouver, British Columbia: Heavenly Monkey, 2016. Small quarto. 52, (iv)pp., + 12 plates. First edition, deluxe issue. One of fifty copies. Signed by the author, Harold Budd, and the artist, Jane Maru. Introduction by David Sylvian. Maru's silk batik paintings are interleaved throughout the book in twelve plates, which have..... More
San Francisco: Amber House Press, 1964. Small quarto. (42)pp. First edition of Corrington's third published book of poetry. Illustrated with drawings by Ann Parisi, printed in silver, including a stylized skeleton across the covers. With an Introduction and cover blurb by Charles Bukowski. Printed by Frank Westlake at the Bindweed..... More
(Montclair, NJ): Caliban Press, 1992. Small quarto. (25)pp. One of 125 copies. Illustrated with a map, portraits, page facsimiles and two colored double-page spreads. This edition contains the complete text of a handmade notebook that contained germinal ideas for a poem that later became "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea" collected..... More
Northampton, MA: Catawba Press, 1998. Oblong 64mo. (31)ff. One of 126 copies, signed by Wilbur at the colophon. Twenty-six poems face twenty-six diminishing alphabets, each debating how worse off the world would be without every individual letter. Stab-bound in wrappers with volvelle to upper cover; volvelle spins to reveal, alternately..... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1987. Small quarto. (28)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by Sarah Chamberlain. Beautifully illustrated with color linoleum cuts by Chamberlain, many of which cover three-quarters of a page. All are printed with the rhymes within a color decorated border. Very fine in blue cloth-backed boards. More
(Easthampton, MA): Chamberlain Press, 1978. Octavo. (6)ff., frenchfold. One of 100 copies, signed by the artist. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Chamberlain. Lear's poem tells of an old man "who invented a purely original dress"; it was edible. Printed in two colors on beige Japanese paper and illustrated with two..... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1980. 24mo. (10)ff. One of 150 copies, signed by Chamberlain. Illustrated with eleven wood engravings depicting rowdy rats and the hapless inhabitants of Hamlin. Printed on Hosho paper and bound in marbled paper boards with leather spine label. Fine. More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1982. Small octavo. (20)ff. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist, Sarah Chamberlain. Contains eleven whimsical poems by Hilaire Belloc, illustrated with seventeen wood engravings cut and hand-colored by Chamberlain. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal in patterned boards, with a morocco spine stamped in black. Fine..... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1985. (18)ff. One of 150 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated by Sarah Chamberlain with sixteen wood-engravings. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal in marbled boards, with spine label. Fine. More
