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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(Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1912). Octavo. 60pp. One of 200 copies on paper, from an edition of 215. With three initials printed in red. The text is taken from the edition of 1593, with corrections laid out in a page of errata opposite the colophon. Announced for publication in October, 1912..... 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
(N.p.): Paul Hayden Duensing, (1969). One of 300 copies. Broadside measuring 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (800x317mm), printed by offset. A selection of typefaces offered by the Typefoundry, including borders, ornaments, Hieroglyphics, and Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, and Cherokee alphabets. One faint spot, else fine. More
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. Octavo. 256pp. One of fifty deluxe copies, printed on handmade paper and signed by Dulac. Dulac's initials, headers, and tail-pieces carry the reader along this most-famous pirate's journey, sweeping through each of his additional twelve full-page color illustrations. The result is a wonderous adventure of..... More
(N.p. William Addison Dwiggins, n.d.). A single bifold sheet, with a pochoir-printed border in gray and Christmas greeting in red. Held in a paper envelope with matching border, and with the inscription to the addressee in pencil "from WAD." John W. Borden was a San Francisco-based book collector and amateur..... More
Colorado Springs: Press at Colorado College, 2019. The images found in Curb are rubbings taken from sidewalks and curbs, created by hammering damp sheets onto the surfaces with brushes, then rolling them with screen-printing ink. The text, printed letterpress in two colors, attempts to contextualize the murders of three South-Asian..... More
(NY: New Directions, 1969). Oblong quarto. 33pp. One of 100 copies printed at the Thistle Press and signed by the illustrator, Fritz Eichenberg. Illustrated with five full-page wood engravings in black & white. With an extra suite of the plates, each one signed by the artist. Suite is housed in..... More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1883. Octavo. An elaborate birthday card, with two color illustrations of flowers in vases on the interior panels. The left-hand panel bears a short poem, and the right-hand panel offers the recipient best wishes for their next year. Both are printed on pillowed silk. Bound..... More
(Darmstadt: Ernst Ludwig Presse, 1911). Quarto. (120)pp. From an edition of 500 copies, this is one of fifty printed on Japon. Title-page calligraphy and 150 decorated initials designed by Friedrich Wilhem Kleukens. The text of the Press's fifteenth book is Martin Luther's translation from the last edition of the German..... More
London: Guild & School of Handcraft, Essex House, 1896. Quarto. 36pp. First edition. Illustrated with thirteen plates, several of which are fold-outs. The book was created in an attempt to prevent the demolition of the seventeenth-century Trinity Hospital; in the end, the campaign was successful, and the building was saved..... More
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2017. Oblong small quarto. (68)pp. From an edition of forty copies, this is one of five deluxe copies. Signed by artist at colophon. Thirty-six woodcut and linocut images together with separate blueprint for a pizza oven. Together, the illustrations create a visual narrative of how Esslemont..... More
(Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, 1989). Folio. (6)ff. One of seventeen copies. Illustrated throughout with linoleum block prints altered so that the images in each book are slightly different. One two-page spread depicts the foolish villagers peeking over the edge of the soup pot with surprised expressions on their faces. Printed, illustrated..... More
(N.p. Ferguson, William, n.d.). Print measuring 10 1/4 by 13 inches. One of 76 copies. A windmill design in green and brown, with the words "arena," "monte," "cielo," and "nieve" on the four blades. SIgned by the artist. Fine. More
St-Zotique, Quebec: Cat's Head Press, 2008. Quarto. (48)pp. One of 114 copies. Illustrated throughout with a signed pochoir print by Jef Aerosol, a relief print by Melissa Schulenberg, a stencil by Guy Berard, and an abundance of found images and stencils by the staff at the Cat's Head Press. Printed..... More
Vancouver, BC: Muddy Foot Press, (1990). Oblong quarto. (64)pp. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with tipped-in color photographs by Kendall Townend. The photographs were taken between 1984-87 at different seasons in Toronto in the area south of Finch and east of Bayview along the Don River valley. Title page, colophon..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980. Tall quarto. Unpaginated. One of 275 copies, signed by Andrew Hoyem, the printer, and by Ray Bradbury, who wrote the Introduction. A strikingly visual presentation of this science fiction classic. Illustrated with die cutouts of geometric shapes, all of which have been hand-colored. Bound concertina-style..... More
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. v, (i), 94, 1pp. A collection of Aesop's much-celebrated and much-cited fables, some illustrated with bold wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes. In keeping with the Golden Cockerel Press's tradition of creating limited editions of classic masterworks, this representation was reprinted from Sir..... More
(London): Doves Press, (1908). Two large octavo volumes. 192; 200pp. One of 250 copies. Printed in red and black by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. This collection of Browning's poems explores the many aspects of love between men and women. The colophon is beautifully inscribed in red "Flourished by..... More
(Columbus, OH): Logan Elm Press, 1990. Quarto. (38)pp. One of 115 copies, printed on handmade paper and signed by the poet, David Citino, the artist, Anthony Rice, and the designer of the book, Robert Tauber. A stunning production crafted in advance of the quincentennial celebration of Columbus’s voyage. Illustrated throughout..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1916. Octavo. 96pp. One of 150 copies. This is Cobden-Sanderson's third, and final catalogue raisonné, which not only describes the entire printed oeuvre from the Doves Press, but also reprints all the minor pieces—known as Parerga—in their entirety. Those minor pieces include "Salve Aeternum Aeternumque Vale," which..... More
(Los Angeles): Turkey Press, 1988. Small quarto. (60)pp. One of 125 copies, signed by the poet and the illustrator. William T. Wiley's drawings, which face each of Hannon's poems, encapsulate chaos through discordant lines and endow their paired verses with a sense of foreboding. Bound in black cloth with brown..... More
Frankfurt: Raamin-Presse, 1978. Quarto. (28)pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by the artist at the colophon. Five full-page color initials by Quadflieg. The page opposite each initial features decorative rules and at two smaller decorated initials. The volume feature's Holderlin's poem in its 1803 and later versions. Bound in blue..... More
London: Florence Press, 1915. Two octavo volumes. xviii, 338; viii, 371pp. One of 250 copies. Keats' entire corpus, including an appendix for "Verses jocular or trivial" extracted from letters and notes. All are lovingly printed on hand-made paper, with sharp black ink and two-line initials to start each poem. With..... More
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1931. Octavo. (10), 25, (3)pp. From an edition of 250 copies, this is one of twenty-five printed on Japanese vellum and bound after a design by Blair Hughes-Stanton himself. It marks Hughes-Stanton's first contribution to the Press' run of special bindings, and the advent of a shift..... More
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
