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, 2004. Octavo. 309pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator, photographer Stephen Shore. Shore's photographs depict scenes from modern New York City: walkways, monuments, stoops, and balconies. These images bring the novel's Gilded Age characters into the present, suggesting that their whims and worries exist... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1998. Square quarto. 63pp. One of 300 numbered copies, each signed by the artist. Illustrated with twenty-one woodblock prints by Mel Kendrick. A very fine copy in black cloth with laser cut wood veneer mounted to the two boards, backed in black morocco. Prospectus laid in. More
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(Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1961). Small folio portfolio. One of seventeen portfolios distributed by Dawson's Book Shop. Contains Dawson's contents sheet, plus 20 leaves of proof, trial, and discarded sheets, which were purchased from the daughter of C. H. St. John Hornby. These are: an eight-page signature from The... More
Mission, BC, Canada: Barbarian Press, 2015. 16mo. (74)pp. From an edition of 140 copies, this is one of 90 copies in the Regular state. Each ode begins with a woodcut by English. The volume contains all five of Keats' "Great Odes" and three others: "Ode: Bards of Passion", "Ode on... More
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. Quarto. xlv, 193pp. From a total edition of 1,100 copies, this is one of 100 deluxe copies bound in full vellum, with an extra, enlarged set of the five pictorial initials tipped-in. Out of the 24 drawings planned, Beardsley lived only long enough to complete five... More
Davis, CA: Library Associates, University Library, University of California, Davis, 1979. Two copies of a poster designed by Richard Bigus announcing the "Five Fine Printers" exhibit and related events at the Memorial Union Art Gallery at the University of California, Davis. The exhibit ran from February 22 to April 10... More
Richard Bigus, 1978. Broadside measuring 21 3/8 by 14 3/4 inches. From an edition of 200 copies, this is a proof copy signed by Richard Bigus. Designed and printed by Bigus in two colors. Fine. More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. Small quarto. 120pp. One of 300 copies printed on handmade Bird & Bull "Nagashuzuki" paper. Illustrated with twenty-four drawings by Richard Flavin and fourteen 4" x 5" samples of paper. Fine in quarter-morocco and floral decorated Japanese paper. (Bird & Bull Bibliography A22). More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1986. Octavo. 124pp. One of 325 copies. With a Preface by Elaine Koretsky. Contains 40 paper samples of great variety and interest, collected by McClure, a botanist who lived in China from 1919 to 1941. These include brilliant dyed papers for ceremonial use, rough... More
(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1967. Octavo. 121pp. From an edition of 500 copies, this is an out-of-series copy in a 1968 trial binding by Jean Millard. According to a penciled note on the front endpaper, there were two copies bound thus, and the note mentioned that "L. Schlosser... More
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1966. Quarto. 83pp. One of 200 copies. A variety of ancient writings, from the epic of Gilgamesh to the law-code of Hammurabi to business documents. The color illustrations, which are contemporary renderings of ancient Mesopotamian art, are by Harold Kimmelman. Some sunning and... More
(San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1980). Oblong 24mo. (30)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by author Kate Pond and printer Shelley Hoyt-Koch. Each letter, printed in red, is accompanied by an illustration in black. Rhymes by Kate Pond, clever and at times unexpected, run across each page spread (e.g. "HORSE... More
(NY): Center for the Book Arts, (2007). Octavo. 18ff. One of thirty-nine copies. A collection of thirteen poems from Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, beautifully printed by nine compositor-printers at the Center for the Book Arts. Each printer’s work occupies a single bifolium sheet, forming nine loose signatures. All... 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
San Francisco: Lantern Press, 1929. Octavo. 32pp. One of 500 copies. Inscribed by the author to the binder, Caroline Weir Ely. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, with a woodcut frontispiece by Ray Boynton. A collection of poems by Wood, celebrating the spiritual and rustic beauty of the wilderness. Wood is... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1929. Quarto. 88pp. From an edition of 530 copies, this is one of 250 printed on handmade paper for Random House. The title and eight two-color initials were designed by Anna Simons. A fine copy in quarter-vellum with marbled paper-covered boards. Housed in red paper slipcase. Spine... More
(Munich): Bremer Presse, (1923-1924). Two folio volumes. 486; 372pp. One of 615 copies printed in Greek with titles by Anna Simons. These beautiful volumes are printed on Zanders handmade paper in a 16-point Greek type designed for the Press. Colin Franklin describes these books as “magnificent examples of controlled printing.”... More
Boston: Bromer, Anne & David, 1984. Quarto. 38pp. First edition. 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. Handbound by Claudia Cohen in quarter-vellum and... More
Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1930. Small quarto. (70)pp. One of 376 copies, this printed on Dutch Pannekoek laid paper with the watermark of the Halcyon Press. Buckland Wright's characteristically rich woodcuts throughout. This is the first published book of John Buckland Wright, who had exhibited his early work in Belgium and... More
The Hague: J.B.W. Editions, 1935 (i.e. 1956). Small quarto. (14)pp. Although the colophon indicates a limitation of 50 copies, only 25 were actually bound and issued. This is the French version of the poem, printed for the artist in Holland before the war. Copies were available from Golden Cockerel at... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1984. Small octavo. (24)ff. One of 150 copies signed by Chamberlain. The text, translated by Boris Artzybasheff, is ornamented with ten full-page wood engravings by Chamberlain, each printed in black and three colors. Text pages are ornamented with leafy vines, printed in green. Extremely fine in... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1903. Folio. 265pp. One of 200 copies. With frontispiece after the portrait of More by Hans Holbein, along with Holbein's renowned "memento mori" image of the island of Utopia fashioned after a skull. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Translated by Ralph Robynson, and appended with... More
NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1988. Small octavo. 9, (2)pp. One of 200 copies. Signed by the illustrator. A fine printing of Winston Churchill's letter of February 18, 1898 to Sir Algernon West, the twice-secretary to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone. Churchill's relationship with West began after Churchill's father's death and West's... More
London: 1929; 1975. Bifolium. 4pp. Offprint from a children's annual containing original text and illustrations by Cox printed in two colors. Above the final illustration, Cox's name appears as "Mauris Cox." A story about a lazy boy who is cast out of his house by his mother; then, with the... More
NY: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972. Folio. 202, (5)pp. Publisher's facsimile of the famed edition of Hamlet issued by the Cranach Press in 1929. With reprints of Edward Johnston's typography, Edward Gordon Craig's 74 woodcuts, and Eric Gill's contributions of two initials, the title over the first woodcut, and spine titling... More
