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, 1983. Octavo. x, 291pp., + (44)ff. One of 400 copies. This edition of Hammet's classic murder mystery, first published in 1938, is illustrated with 46 photographs of Sam Spade's San Francisco. Photographer Edmund Shea searched the photo-archives of the twenties for specific locations. Where none were... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2006. Small quarto. 169pp. One of 400 copies. Fourteen plates of Ulriksen's illustrations, which depict pivotal scenes from the first game of the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians. All in black and white except for the quadruple fold-out of... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Folio. 102, (3)pp. One of 360 copies. Signed by the illustrator. Sixteen lithographs by Walker, which 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 Gershwin, is... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. Octavo. 32pp. One of 500 copies. A talk by Hoyem, delivered March 13, 2000 to the Club, a group of a dozen gentlemen, established in 1950, that meets ten times each year for the reading of a paper by a member at a dinner hosted... More
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. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Octavo. 121pp. Introduction by Thomas Pinney. One of 250 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with 32 drawings by Vincent Perez, one facing each page of the story. A fine copy in sailcloth, housed in a very good mailing envelope with string-and-button tie. Prospectus laid... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Oblong quarto. 56pp. One of 250 copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with twelve drawings by Carroll Dunham. Translated and with an afterword by Alfred Mac Adam. Printed on cream paper with the illustrations on green paper. A fine copy in green cloth with paper... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2005. Oblong 12mo. 18pp. One of 350 copies. Illustrated throughout with 10 prints made by scratching ink printed from a block on frosted mylar, which was used as a negative to produce a photopolymer plate. "The Tulipomania" is a chapter from Memories of Extraordinary Popular Delusions... More
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. A fine copy in blue-green cloth with a ring of silver foil surrounding an actual buffalo-head nickel. Prospectus laid... More
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 author tipped in, along with reproduction of a Carl R. Martin drawing on final page. A fine rendition of the author's first book. Prospectus laid in. More
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
(San Francisco): Arion Press, 2009. Small quarto. 163pp. One of 300 copies. Illustrated with nine tipped-in publicity photos 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... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1989. Quarto. 57pp. One of 275 copies printed under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem. This copy signed by Czeslaw Milosz and Jim Dine, whose dry-point portrait of Milosz is the book's sole illustration. In this work, published nine years after receiving the Nobel Prize, Milosz resurrects... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. Octavo. One of 400 numbered copies. This edition is based on the second edition of Paradise Lost—issued in 1674 with the text divided into twelve books rather than ten as in the first edition—and also on the Baskerville edition of 1759. Edited by the eminent... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1994. Quarto. 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
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2013. Small quarto. 150, (3)pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator. 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. With an introduction by Peter Stansky... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1995. Quarto. 430pp. One of 300 numbered 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. A very fine copy in patternedcloth with morocco spine... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2014. Octavo. 15pp. One of 300 copies printed as a keepsake for distribution to members attending the Joint Meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano clubs in San Francisco in November 2014, to subscribers of the Arion Press, and to the Roth family. In green paper wrappers... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2016. Quarto. 147pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist at the colophon. Ten two-sided prints and two roundels by Chagoya, printed from polymer plats on Japanses kozo washi. Handmade in the Kochi province, this is the final batch of Arakaji, due to the retirement... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Octavo. 12pp. One of 500 copies. A talk presented by Shawcross at the Arion Press on January 29, 2003, during its celebration of the publication of a new edition of Paradise Lost by John Milton. Bound in gray paper wrappers. Fine. More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Large quarto. 143 pp. One of 300 copies signed by the author and illustrator. Illustrated throughout by Stan Washburn. A very fine copy in pictorial boards and goatskin spine; mylar wrapper. Lacks accompanying CD "The Music of Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind" by... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Octavo. xvi, 108pp. One of 250 copies, each signed by the artist. Illustrated with 16 photographs of western landscapes by Kenna. A fine copy in cork covered boards and cloth spine with cork label. Prospectus laid in. (Bibliography of the Arion Press 48). More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2001. Oblong quarto. xvi, 115 pp. One of 400 copies signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated with four reproductions of watercolor landscape views by William Matthews. Foreword by the author. A fine copy in green cloth with paper labels and matching slipcase. Prospectus laid... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2002. Quarto. 52pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the author and the artist. Six photogravures by Conner, printed on yellow paper. A fine copy in patterned cloth backed in black cloth with paper label and card slipcase. Prospectus laid in. More
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... More
