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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(Wakefield): Fleece Press, 1984. 16mo. 8ff. One of 250 copies. With seven wood engravings by Peter Forster, including cover label. Reprints a passage from Marvell's "The Rehearsal Transpros'd," published in 1672. Fine in marbled wrappers by Mark Whittaker. (Rogerson 6). More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Small quarto. 127pp. Of an edition of 550, this is one of 105 specially bound in white alum-tanned sheepskin and accompanied by eight extra plates. Signed by the illustrator at colophon. Richly illustrated with color-collotype reproductions of Flint's watercolor paintings and crayon drawings of women..... 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
Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1911. Octavo. (40)pp. One of 440 copies. A noble edition of one of the United States’ most revered documents, with borders on every page and a stylized eagle as the header to the Preamble, all designed by Bruce Rogers. The Constitution, at its genesis, enacted a...... More
Santa Cruz, CA: William James Association, 1976. Elephant folio. 15ff., loose. One of 200 copies. To commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of the United States, seventeen printers contributed broadsides in their own styles, illustrating in image and type statements from various founding fathers. The participating printers included William Everson..... More
(Dallas: Ondine Press, 1977). Octavo. 19pp. One of 145 copies. Highlights an address given by Franklin at Perkins Chapel to mark the acquisition of the Sir Emery Walker copy of the Doves Press Bible printed on vellum by the Bridwell Library. Few marks to rear board, else fine in cream..... More
London: R. Alistair McAlpine Publishing Limited, 1968. Oblong octavo. (110)pp. One of 250 copies, signed by the artist, Elizabeth Frink, on the front flyleaf, and with the stated four additional original lithographs bound in at the rear. Throughout, Frink's lithographed illustrations bring lightness to what appears at first to be..... More
NY: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition. One of 751 copies signed by Frost. Title page decoration by Loren MacIver. In a review in the June 1, 1947 issue of the New York Times, Randall Jarrell singles out “Directive,” an early poem in Frost’s penultimate collection, for possessing “so much longing..... More
NY: Henry Holt, 1947. First edition. One of 751 copies signed by Frost. Title page decoration by Loren MacIver. In a review in the June 1, 1947 issue of the New York Times, Randall Jarrell singles out “Directive,” an early poem in Frost’s penultimate collection, for possessing “so much longing..... More
Dublin, Ireland/Deerfield, MA: Gallery Press/Deerfield Press, 1977-1983. Eighteen octavo volumes. Variously paginated. Volumes printed from 1977-1978 are one of 250 copies; later editions are one of 300. Each signed by the author at colophon and illustrated with woodcuts or drawings from Engelland, who also acted as designer. Printed by Harold..... More
(Northampton): Gehenna Press, 1965. 16mo. (14)ff. One of 100 copies, signed by Leonard Baskin. After acquiring several Jan van Krimpen fonts in three sizes, modeled on chancery script, Baskin designed this book. It contains eleven mottos, each decoratively printed with different sizes of type in subtle variations of color. One..... More
(Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1967). Quarto. (31)ff. One of 250 copies, this one inscribed in pencil from Leonard Baskin to Ben Tighe, a well-known bookseller in the Northampton area. The inscription is curiously dated "1947" in Baskin's hand. Using the collection of type ornaments owned by Bruce Rogers, Baskin has..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1959. 12mo. (12)ff. One of 200 copies. With original woodcuts to title and colophon by Leonard Baskin. Printed in green, black, and orange. Some rubbing, else a near fine copy in stiff floral-patterned wrappers with printed label. More
(Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1969). Octavo. 25ff., housed in paper wrapper. One of 250 copies. With 21 woodblock illustrations of creatures fantastic and familiar printed in a variety of colors on nine different oriental papers, each print signed by the artist, Wang Hui-Ming. Box shows some rubbing, but sheets all pristine..... More
(Northampton, MA): Gehenna Press, 1958. Small quarto. (12)pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by George Lockwood, who contributed the wood-engraved frontispiece. Leyda's poem about Emily Dickinson's Amherst, Massachusetts home is interspersed with the words from the deed, which are printed in red. An uncommon Gehenna title, this copy shows some..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1972. Quarto. (14)ff. One of thirty-five copies. Signed by Baskin at the colophon. Eight etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil, all depicting figures formed after the fashion of Roman boundary markers. These stele, with the exception of the bird marker, preserve perhaps the most human..... More
(Leeds, MA): Gehenna Press, 1989. Quarto. (13)pp, (25)ff. One of thirty-eight copies. A collection of etchings of cats by the Italian artist Anna Maria Bartolini, some of which are printed on pink mulberry paper and tipped in. All are signed by the artist in graphite. Some of the cats are..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1964. Quarto. 84pp + 21 inserted plates. One of 300 copies. Signed by Cornell twice at the colophon and under each illustration, and by Leonard Baskin, who designed the book. The plates, printed on blue paper, bear twenty-one different portraits of the major players in Babeuf's..... More
(Chicago): Starshaped Press, 2017. Square quarto. (6)ff. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Jennifer Farrell. Letterpress-printed illustrations of girls formed from type ornaments accompany lyrics from songs by The Bodysnatchers, The Jam, Alex Chilton, and MC Lyte to present empowered, confident figures from subcultures that reappropriated the term..... More
(Worcester, VT): Dragon Dance Theatre, 1997. Folio. (18)ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist, Sam Kerson. A tribute to the actor and activist Murray Levy in a series of fifteen bold, full-page black & white linocuts by his friend, Sam Kerson, an artist and the co-founder and director..... More
Oakland, CA: Liquid Impressions, 2014. Oblong 24mo. (8)pp. One of fifteen copies, initialled by the artist, Nora McKinnon. A list of names and locations of some of the transgender individuals reported murdered between November 2013 and November 2014. The names were compiled from databases found on the Trans Violence Tracker..... More
Nassau, The Bahamas: Sonia Farmer, 2019. One of twenty copies, signed by the poet, Shivanee Ramlochan, and the artist, Sonia Farmer. A profound and painful witness to the trauma of sexual assault in the Caribbean region (and more broadly), the work is presented as a series of seven poems by..... More
Prague, Czechoslovakia and Vestal, NY: Robert Marx and Ivan Ruzicka, 1966. Octavo. (28)ff. One of twenty-five copies, signed by the artist, Robert Marx, and the translator and binder, Ivan Ruzicka, below the colophon, and initialled by Marx on the title page. Marx’s etched portraits of old women, all numbered and..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Octavo. 6ff. One of two artist's proof copies out of a total edition of fifty. Includes frontispiece and colophon illustrations, each reproducing one of the artist's original photograms as a photogravure; in the regular edition, each copy received only one of these. The second in..... More
Victoria, Australia: 2010. Square 32mo. (14)pp., accordion-fold, decorated on both sides of the page. An original artist's book by Jennifer Gibney, with hand-drawn text and pen illustrations in black, sepia, and sanguine ink, housed within a hand-painted and decorated wooden box. The story concerns a jester-like character who is overwhelmed..... More
