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, 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
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1964. Octavo. 91pp. One of 200 copies. A biography on the life and work of Thomas Bird Mosher, the remarkable New England publisher and literary pirate. The Passionate Pirate is one of Henry Morris's earlier titles. In making it, he was plagued with both..... 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
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1994). Folio. (14)ff. One of 400 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Angelou requested that, for this first edition, her poem be illustrated by her favorite artist, John T. Biggers. Biggers' images are totemic, enshrining ancestral traditions in iconographic and dynamic drawings. Like Angelou's poetry..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1996). Folio. (24)ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Illustrated with five paintings by Lois Mailou Jones, including a frontispiece portrait of Senghor. Born in then-French West Africa, Léopold Senghor devoted his life to activism and poetry; in 1960 he was elected..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, (2001). Oblong folio. 73pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with four aquatints by Wilson, printed at the Center Street Studio in Milton, Massachusetts by Jim Stroud. Typography and letterpress printing by David Wolfe of Portland, Maine. The restrained color palettes of John..... More
(Hamburg: Gunnar A. Kaldewey, 1976). Small quarto. (16)pp. One of thirty copies, this example printed on white Sheufelen paper. Signed by Gunnar Kaldewey on the colophon. The sole illustration is a relief-printed etching on the front cover showing the "Bibliothèque d'un Gourmand," taken from de la Reynière's almanacs. Franz Blei's..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1995; 1994; 1991. Three volumes: 32mo., 24mo., and small 8vo. (7); (4); (12)pp. Caesarean is one of 120 copies, featuring the titular poem by Peter Fallon, who founded Ireland's Gallery Press. Signed by Blinn and Fallon. Bound in wrappers with paper label to upper cover. Night..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1989; 1991; 1994; 1998. Four small 8vo volumes. 26; 35; 59; (14)pp. The War Zone is one of 50 copies, signed by Barr and the printer, Carol Blinn, and with an additional inscription from Blinn at the colophon. Bound in Japanese Chiri paper over boards. Natural..... More
(Easthampton, MA): Warwick Press, 1987. Quarto. (4)pp., accordion-fold. One of twenty copies signed by Carol Blinn, who wrote, illustrated, and printed this book. A poem by Blinn is accompanied by a watercolor illustration that extends across the central page spread, depicting three yellow balls floating on a cerulean pool surrounded..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1989; 1978. One12mo. volume and one small 8vo volume. (68); 12pp. A Fowl Letter Book is one of 225 copies signed by the author/artist/printer, Carol J. Blinn. A Poultry Piece is one of 250 copies, likewise signed by Blinn, with four hand-watercolored line illustrations. The pair..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1986; 1976. Two small octavo vols. 30; (13)pp. From Stripper to Publisher is one of 125 copies, signed by Blinn and the photographer, Robert Lyons, and with a special multi-colored colophon inscription stating, "A little extra color for Hugh's copy with lots of love from Carol."..... More
Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press, 1984-2003. Eight volumes. Variously paginated. All of different limitations, but the possibility of this full run is one of 45, designated by the edition for Book Eight. All books signed by Fitzenmeyer and Blinn. The continued collaboration between the two artists resulted in this happy series..... 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
Boston: Bromer, Anne & David, 1984. Quarto. 38pp. 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 printed paper..... More
Islip: Strawberry Press, 1994. Octavo. (19)pp. One of 100 copies. Printed in black and red inks is an Introduction by Paul Nash, a prefatory letter sent by Bowden in 1902 to the then-Printer to the University of Oxford, Horace Hart, and its accompanying memorandum in which Bowden concisely and clearly..... More
(NY: Center for the Book Arts, 2015). 16mo. Unpaginated. One of twenty-one copies, signed by the artist. Illustrated in Cordeiro's characteristic atmospheric and multimedia style with woodcuts, photopolymer plates, linocuts, and tipped-in photographs. A keen and skillful meditation on the oft overlooked limp vellum binding and on the historic standards..... More
San Francisco: Herbert and Peter Fahey, 1940. Octavo. (21)pp. One of 50 copies, signed by Herbert and Peter Fahey below the colophon. Frontispiece illustration by George C. Pearce. With six vellum and two parchment samples tipped-in. Beautifully printed within a border of blue lines and with opening initials of blue..... More
Slanted Publishers, 2014. Folio. (27)ff. One of twenty-six copies. Signed by both artists. A highly stylized, almost-mechanical alphabet, originating from designer Raban Ruddigkeit's "Elements" type. Developed in 2013 for the "We Create Berlin" exhibition, "Elements" consisted of only five characters conceived to be freely combined into letters, numbers, and images..... More
Ogdensburg, NY: Caliban Press, 2020. Octavo. Unpaginated. One of 100 copies, signed by press proprietor Mark McMurray. A delightful and inquisitive survey of typography and typographic potential, making use of a wide variety of types, inks, papers, and paper sizes, the result of which is a fanciful review of the..... More
Wellesley, MA: Annis Press, 1980. An archive of materials relating to the production of Four Fables from Aesop, the limited edition from Wellesley College's Annis Press for the year 1980. Included are two pieces of correspondence and many proof sheets in a variety of states with comments in pen, pencil..... More
Thaxted Essex, UK: Workshop Press, 1984. Octavo. vi, 45pp. One of 85 copies, signed by the author. A compendium, with preceding exposition, of typographic experiments, evincing a number of colors, layouts, and techniques. Bound in cloth-backed marbled papers. Split at hinge before page 15, some rubbing to extremities, else very..... More
Tübingen: Jäckle-Sönmez, (1987). Square octavo. 107pp. One of 230 copies signed by the artists, Nedim Sonmez and Yvonne Jackle-Sonmez, with an additional sheet of ebru paper, signed and dated by Sonmez, bound in. A catalog with thirty-eight color reproductions of marbled pictures, nine photos in black and white on the..... More
(San Francisco): Book Club of California, 1981. 16mo. 64pp. One of 650 copies. The transcript of a discussion that took place at the Bruce Rogers Centennial Conference in May 1970. Bound in full brown cloth with gilt illustration stamped to upper cover. Fine in original dust wrapper. More
Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2021. Square small quarto. (29)pp. One of forty copies. An abecedarium constructed entirely of 12-point metal type and ornaments in an elaborate range of colors. The letterforms are artful and contemporary, drawing on a variety of sources both original and revised. Stab-bound in beige wrappers with a...... More
