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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2010. Original watercolor from Christmas in the Time of Billy Lee. Signed. Framed. (20 1/4 by 24 3/8 in.). More about Ellie's First Snow Commences as She and Her Friends Sleep
2010. Original watercolor from Christmas in the Time of Billy Lee. Signed. (18 by 14 in.). More about Grandma Tucker Explains to Ellie about Secrets within Snow
2003. Original watercolor from The Three Silly Billies. Signed. Framed. (20 1/4 by 16 1/8 in.). More about Big Mama Not Too Happy About This Troll's Toll
2001. Original watercolor from The Three Silly Billies. Signed. Framed. (20 by 16 5/8 in.). More about So They All Ran
(c. 2003). Original watercolor from The Three Silly Billies. Framed. (20 1/4 by 17 1/8 in.). More about The Three Silly Billies, Cover Art
NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005. First edition. Signed by Moser. An updated take on the familiar tale of billy goats crossing the troll's bridge, written by Margie Palatini and lushly illustrated with Moser's watercolors. Very fine in pictorial boards, with matching fine dust wrapper. More about The Three Silly Billies
London: Basilisk Press, 1979. Quarto. 180 pp.+(10) ff. From an edition of 500 copies, this is one of twenty-five with ten original wood engravings bound-in subsequent to the text, five of which are signed by the book's illustrator, Edward Gordon Craig. For decades, Edward Gordon Craig nurtured an interest in... More about The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York
Nevada City, CA: Berliner, Harold, 1988. Quarto. 105pp. One of 150 copies. This copy inscribed by the printer to wood engraver John DePol, with his bookplate and signature to front paste-down. Design and frontispiece illustration by Lederer. Translated by C. F. MacIntyre and printed in French and English, on opposing... More about Poems
St. Paul: Bieler Press, 1981. Octavo. 67pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the author and the illustrator. A series of nine amusing essays on reincarnation by animals who had been persons in their past lives. Each selection is begun by a wood engraving of the animal by Michael McCurdy... More about Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again
Minneapolis: Bieler Press, 1985. Octavo. 67pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the author. Trace rubbing to corners, else near fine in patterned blue paper backed in navy cloth. Prospectus laid in. More about The Compleat Melancholick. Being a Sequence fo Found, Composite, and Composed Poems, Based...
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 about Five Fine Printers posters, with exhibition catalogue
(Athens, OH), Labyrinth Editions, 1982. Folio. (21)ff. From an edition of 130 copies, this is one of 50 with a separate portfolio of signed prints, and an additional, signed, unbound print, measuring 17 by 22 inches. Signed by the printer, Richard Bigus, and by Goldstein and Morrow. Rexroth's collection of... More about Between Two Wars. Selected Poems Written Prior to the Second World War. With an Introduction by...
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 about Valentine's Day at Johns Hopkins Hospital
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1982. Octavo. 40pp. One of 250 copies. A comprehensive guide to bookbinding techniques and terminology for the layperson collector. Backed in cloth with red paper over boards. Fine. More about A Collector's Guide to Bookbinding
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 about Nagashizuki, The Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1995. Octavo. (106) pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with plates depicting Middleton and other artists and book historians, as well as images of Middleton's bindery. With a Foreword by Marianne Tidcombe. Spine toned, else fine in quarter morocco and decorated boards, housed in cloth... More about Recollections. My Life in Bookbinding
(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 about Omnibus
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 about Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan, "The Parkes...
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 about The Passionate Pirate
Dallas: Bird and Bull Press, 1983. Octavo. 31pp. One of 275 copies. Previously unpublished letters dealing with the row between T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. With a Foreword by Michael Hornby. Quarter brown cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titling to upper cover. Spine somewhat toned, else fine. More about The Start of a Worry
(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, (1979). Ocatvo. 8ff. One of 200 copies. A controversial discussion of the traditional versus the experimental directions in modern fine printing. This book was only offered to standing order customers of the Press. Fine in printed wrappers. (Bird & Bull Bibliography C20). More about Assault on the Book. A Critique of Fine Printing at Private Presses in the United States Today
(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 about ABC
(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 about Songs
(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 about Atti della Solenne Coronazione fatta in Campidoglio della Insigne Poetessa D.na Maria Maddalena...
(Hadley, MA): American Indian Mystery Press, 1997. Folio. (64)ff. One of 60 copies, signed by the author and the artist. Twenty-three etchings done in black, white, and shades of red, inspired by iconography of Plains peoples, specifically the Oglala Lakota. While the etchings give credence to the history of the... More about The Great Mystery
