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
(Bad Friedrichshall]: Black-Letter-Press, 1990. Quarto. (11)pp. One of twenty copies. A typographically reverent edition of Goethe's poetic cycle. Bound in blue marbled and textured paper, with title to upper cover in orange. With plain blue dust wrapper, exhibiting faint sunning. Mild bumps to corners. Near fine. More
Connecticut River Valley, MA: SAW Press, 2018. 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 been lynched and denied their last rites. Whitaker then worked with printer Michael..... 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
Ogdensburg, NY: Caliban Press, 2020. 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 Caliban Press' collection of wood type. Octavo. Unpaginated. One of 100 copies..... 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
(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
Newark, VT: Janus Press, 2002. Quarto text volume, plus sixteen 32mo. samples. 142pp.; samples variously paginated. One of 200 copies, signed by Claire Van Vliet. A trade copy of Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner's how-to manual on creating non-adhesive book structures is accompanied by miniature models of each of the..... More
Loughborough: Plough Press, 1981. Quarto. (62)ff. One of 120 copies. Contains nineteen fascicles with actual samples of eighteen different printing methods, from woodcut to photomechanical printing, and ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Explanatory text is printed on the wrappers, and the samples are loose so as to..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1948. Octavo. 26pp. One of 300 copies, printed in red and black. This copy was formerly owned by David McKibbin, a major collector of John Singer Sargent. Bound in vellum-backed blue paper over boards, with the Club of Odd Volumes seal gilt-stamped to upper cover. Edges of..... 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
(Manteno, IL): Brontë Press, 1993. (24)pp. One of 55 copies, signed and numbered by Prutchnicki. The hand-colored line drawings follow the travels and impressions of a young Alexander as he follows a journey similar to that of Alexander the Great. Bound in teal paper over boards with paper label to..... More
Manteno, IL: Brontë Press, 1995. (17)pp. One of 55 copies, signed and numbered by Prutchnicki, who, in addition to authoring and illustrating the book, printed it and hand-colored it in conjunction with Paul Prutchnicki. A loving and lovely perspective of the San Xavier Mission, the gardens and architectural details of..... More
Paris: Officina Bodoni for the Pegasus Press, 1929. Quarto. 30pp., (51)ff. One of 175 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni. With an Introduction by Henry Thomas and descriptive notes by Stanley Morison. Following these are forty-nine facsimile leaves in collotype reproducing the surviving text and plates of Brun's two writing..... More
Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1931. Octavo. (256)pp. From an edition of 140, this is one of 125 copies on Pannekoek paper. All plates are signed by the illustrator, John Buckland Wright, and the publisher, A. A. M. Stols has signed on the colophon page. This is the third book bearing Buckland..... 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
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 1995. 16mo. (vi)pp., + (17)ff. One of 90 copies. Signed by Eckmair at the colophon. A collection of sixteen of Eckmair's woodcut illustrations, all evincing his keen ability to capture the nuances of light and dark. With a Foreword by Fred Norton and an Introduction by..... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2007. Square 24mo. (8)pp., accordionfold. One of 200 copies. The jumblies in their famous seive, with holes in the appropriate places, on a colored etching, which is printed on a movable piece of paper affixed to the fifth panel. With red paper covered and housed in..... More
NY: Knopf, 1933. Octavo. (12)pp. First edition thus. Signed by von Schmidt at the colophon. von Schmidt executed twelve ink drawings for the publication, each bridging his own iconic visions of the American West with the pre-Raphaelite style the book's mise-en-page presents. Printed in black and orange. Bound in tan..... 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
