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, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Oblong 12mo. 64pp., + (14)ff. One of 350 copies. An interesting, historic account on marbling taken from the Journal of the Franklin Institute of 1829. Minor toning to spine, some edgewear, else near fine in marbled boards, backed with gilt-stamped blue morocco. Prospectus..... 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
Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 2020. Octavo. 122, (3)pp. One of sixty copies. Frontispiece portrait of Frederick Douglass and thirteen additional engravings, all printed on sheer vintage Whatman mould made sheets. Barry Moser’s images bear a harrowing darkness in both content and execution. Their depictions of torture and enslavement grip the..... More
Johannesburg, South Africa: Artists' Press, 2001. Oblong octavo. (52)pp. One of 100 copies, signed by the author, Nadine Gordimer, and the artists, Aletah Masuku, Alsetah Manthosi, and Dorah Ngomane. Gordimer, who in 1991 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her integration of writing and activism, wielded both to protest..... 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
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Octon, France: Verdigris, 2007. 16mo. (14)pp., double accordionfold. One of forty-five copies, signed by the artist, Judith Rothchild. The volume opens to Rothchild’s stark engraving of manacled feet, filling the reader with immediate horror and discomfort as they read Victor Hugo’s letter to the United States criticizing the treatment of..... 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
NY: Limited Editions Club, 2007. Folio. (vii), 54pp. One of 420 copies, signed by the artist. Faith Ringgold’s eight serigraph prints earnestly illustrate the painful complexities of the Civil Rights Movement. In color and line they are whimsical, casting a church, a field, and a fairground with vibrancy that clashes..... More
(Easthampton, MA): Pennyroyal Press, 1977. Small quarto. (28)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is a lettered copy not noted in the Pennyroyal Checklist. Signed by both the author, Arthur MacAlpine, and the printer, Barry Moser. Includes five wood engravings by Moser. Printed in brown and black on light..... More
Aurora, NY: Punky Press, (2013). Octavo. (15)pp. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist, Jessie Reich. Interior leaves act as enclosures for inserted double-sided prints. Simultaneously a tribute to Harriet Tubman and a call to action on her behalf, the book points out the dichotomy between Tubman’s legacy in..... 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
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
NY: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991. First edition. One of 160 copies. George Condo's illustrations—some black-and-white, some color, some printed, and some tipped-in—give additional wonderment to Burroughs' fantastical tale of pirates, bizarre diseases, and endangered lemurs. Condo likewise designed the endpapers, which offer a surreal..... 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
(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
(Northampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press, 1986. 12mo. (34)pp., accordion-fold. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of five unnumbered artist proofs. Calligraphic letters, designed by Suzanne Moore, are blind-stamped one to a page of this lovely panorama, which folds out to over seven feet long. Bound by Claudia Cohen..... More
(N.p.): Cheloniidae Press, 1991. Quarto. (89)pp. One of 210 copies, signed by both Robinson and McGrath at the colophon. Illustrated throughout with head- and tail-pieces by Robinson, as well as an example of calligraphy by Suzanne Moore and one by Elizabeth Curtis. A celebration of McGrath upon the fiftieth anniversary..... More
Los Angeles: W. M. Cheney, 1953. Small octavo. xiv, 18pp. One of 100 copies. A satirically aloof academic text on Pig Latin. Fine in tan wrappers. More
London: 1919. Single 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inch sheet. Dated September 8, 1919. Cobden-Sanderson directs Millard on his desired bindings for three copies of the Doves Bible, one in blue and two in red. For two, the blue and one of the reds, Cobden-Sanderson provides one of his patterns..... More
