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, 2006. Octavo. 187pp. One of 400 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Franklin, taken from his image on the one-hundred dollar bill, to reflect his advocacy of paper currency. Published in celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of Franklin's birth. Printed in Aitken type, a digital recreation of the... More about The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Quarto. 114pp. One of 276 copies, signed by the artist, Jim Dine, who has provided five etchings and six woodcuts. Dine's illustrations, with their dark and crude style, give life and real psychological impact to one of Freud's most influential and disconcerting case studies. With... More about The Case of the Wolf-Man. From the History of Infantile Neurosis
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Quarto. 63pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the author, Allen Ginsberg, and the artist, Ronald Brooks Kitaj. Illustrated with lithographic portraits of the poet and his mother. Two other poems, "White Shroud" and "Black Shroud," are also included, as further remembrances of Ginsberg's mother... More about Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg, 1894-1956
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... More about Squarings: A Sequence of Forty-Eight Poems
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.... More about The Apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon
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 52). More about The Madonna of the Future
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... More about Le Désert de Retz
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... More about The Tulipomania
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... More about American Buffalo
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... More about Go Your Stations, Girl
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... More about The Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston. Related by Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier,...
(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... More about The Nachman Stories
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... More about Pale Fire
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... More about Biotherm (for Bill Berkson
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... More about Animal Farm
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... More about Call It Sleep
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). More about Harmonious Numbers Though in Shadiest Covert Hid
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... More about A Lie of the Mind. A Play in Three Acts
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... More about The Silverado Squatters
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.... More about Arcadia, a Play
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 assembled from a collection of 19th-century wood engravings that had previously been used in books... More about The Ballad of Lemon and Crow
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... More about Williwaw
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... More about The Lulu Plays
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... More about Tono-Bungay
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Octavo. 178, (ii)pp., + 20pp. of illustrations. One of 400 copies, signed by Lucy Gray, whose twenty photographs were printed by offset lithography in two colors and overlaid with varnish. Gray is married to film historian and critic David Thomson, who contributed the Introduction to... More about The Day of the Locust
