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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Munich/Berlin: Rixdorfer Drucke, 1970. Quarto. 55pp., frenchfold. One of 300 copies signed by the four artist-printers of the press. A wild "adventure" illustrated with eight four-color, full-page woodcuts and 66 smaller black and white woodcuts. The front cover has a compass mounted in the center to "guide" the reader through... More
Boston: Riverside Press, 1904. Octavo. 27pp. One of 325 copies. Printed in red and black in "lettre batarde," with two large initial letters printed in blue and hand-illuminated in gold, as well as several large red initial letters. A BR "30" and one of Rogers' most striking books, with his... More
(London): 1932. Quarto. Unpaginated. One of 530 copies, printed and published by Rogers, Sir Emery Walker, and Wilfred Merton. Illustrated with 26 decorations of Homeric figures printed in black on round backgrounds of gold. It was Rogers who, upon reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom, decided that T.E. Lawrence would be... More
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, (1936). Folio. Six color engravings illustrating Oscar Wilde's text, each signed by the artist and mounted on a 13 by 10-inch off-white matte. This suite of prints, one of only twenty sets, comprises the full set of the engravings that appeared in the edition of the... More
(NY: 1958). 16mo. 20ff. First edition, limited to 60 copies signed by the artist. This copy bears a presentation inscription on the colophon page to Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Illustrated with eighteen compact etchings of babies sleeping, crying, smiling, or being held by their mothers, which... More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First edition. One of twenty-six lettered copies, signed by Beckett and Gorey. The second and final collaboration between the author and the artist. Design and typography by Ronald Gordon and Dean Bornstein, and illustrated throughout with vignettes by Gorey. A fine copy in black boards... More
NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1988. First edition. One of 300 copies, signed by Beckett and Gorey. This title is the second and final collaboration between the author and the artist. Design and typography by Ronald Gordon and Dean Bornstein, and illustrated throughout with vignettes by Gorey. A fine copy in... More
Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Quarto. xl, 189pp. One of 375 copies. American issue. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-upon-Avon on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper. Translated by William Caxton and printed from the manuscript in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. In a handsome binding of... More
Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1904-1906. Ten quarto volumes. This set is one of only twelve printed on pure vellum with a frontispiece illustration in each volume. It represents a monumental undertaking, which took four years to complete and consumed about 250 sheets for each of the twelve copies printed on... More
(Northampton, MA): Apiary Press, 1961. Oblong quarto. (10)ff., + single letterpress sheet laid in. One of twenty-five copies signed by the illustrator, Joyce Sills. This copy bears a presentation inscription from Sills to social-realist artist Ben Shahn and his wife, Bernarda. The colophon notes that the Shahns' son, Ezra, had... More
Sign of the Elephant. First edition. Folio. One of 150 copies. Single folded leaf with unattached blue paper cover. Printed in black and orange, with a 4-line initial of the letter "O", and illustrated with a woodcut of a nun and a monk. The cover exhibits light toning to edges... More
(Mount Vernon, NY: Artists & Writers Protest Inc., 1967). Folio. (28)pp. One of 100 deluxe copies. A collection of eighteen poems by writers who contributed their work as a form of opposition to the Vietnam War. The collection was edited by the artist Jack Sonenberg and contains works by Denise... More
Fullerton, CA: Lyceum Press, 1998. Octavo. (7)pp. Signed by Gloria Stuart. A keepsake for the attendees of the twenty-fourth Biennial Joint Meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs. Offers some snippets of the lift of Stuart, an honorary Zamorano Club member and perhaps best known as the 103-year-old Rose in... More
(N.p. Stamperia Di Alberto Tallone, 1975). Quarto. Lxxxvii, 251pp. One of 470 copies. A bibliography of works by the Italian printer Alberto Tallone with many sample title pages. Prefaced with an introduction and a biographical essay. At a young age, Tallone became an apprentice in the printing house of Maurice... More
(Cranberry Isles, Maine: Tidal Press, c. 1975). Broadside. Signed by the author. A poem and an illustration of a chickadee, both by Charles Wadsworth, who along with his wife, Jean Howard, was proprietor of Tidal Press. Fine. More
Parisiis: Typis Imperialibus, 1805. Quarto. (vii), 150ff. Correct first edition of this work, distinguished from a contemporary pirated edition by the presence of the coat-of-arms of the French Republic as the title page device. A typographic tour of the world’s languages, this work was printed to honor the visit of... More
(Houston, TX: ImpPress, 1965). Small octavo. (12)ff. One of 150 copies, signed by the artist and printer, Dugald Stermer. A quirky type specimen book printed on various colors of paper, in many colors of ink. With full-page illustrations, including a cartoonish frontispiece of a man with a printing press in... More
NY: Paul A. Bennett for The Typophiles, 1937. 12mo. xxvi, 327pp. One of 190 copies designed by John S. Fass and printed by 22 printers. This extraordinary little book is a collection of 156 proposed Typophile devices contributed to by 113 artists, designers, and printers of the day. Various ink... More
Bangor: Theodore Press, 1986. Quarto. (138)pp. One of 160 copies signed by the illustrator, Claire Van Vliet, and of those, one of ten hors commerce. This edition uses the text of the 1623 First Folio, which is accompanied by Van Vliet's expressive black and white woodcut illustrations, some of them... More
(N.p. John McBride, 2010). Broadside, measuring 18 by 6 inches. The text is printed in a gradient from yellow to green. Printed for the joint Roxburghe/Zamorano meeting in 2010 with the compliments of Kathleen Burch and John McBride. Signed by McBride and the author, Paul Vangelisti. Very fine. More
Buenos Aires: Colombo, 1958. Quarto. 32pp. From an edition of 52 copies, this is one of thirty-two copies printed on Ingres. An elegantly-printed bilingual edition of Keats's Odes, in English and Spanish, each with a full-page lithograph by Raúl Veroni of the poem's subject. The first illustration is signed in... More
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(Buenos Aires: R. Veroni, 1972). Small quarto. (28)pp. From an edition of thirty-two copies, this is one of three copies printed on Japan paper. Signed by the translator, Miguel Alfredo Olivera, on the colophon page. Shelley's famous ode, translated into Spanish, is illustrated with colored engravings by Raúl Veroni. A.... More
(Easthampton, MA): Warwick Press, 1987. Quarto. (4)pp., accordion-fold. One of twenty copies signed by Carol Blinn, who wrote, illustrated, and printed this book. A poem by Blinn is accompanied by a watercolor illustration that extends across the central page spread, depicting three yellow balls floating on a cerulean pool surrounded... More
(Easthampton, MA): Warwick Press, 1983. 12mo. (10)pp. One of 60 copies, signed by the illustrator and printer, Carol J. Blinn. A delightful little book celebrating ten years of printing by the Warwick Press, set in Perpetua and printed in black and gold, with text in English and Italian. The two... More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1981-2012. Thirty-eight volumes, comprising thirty-four original volumes, plus the reprints of Volumes 1 and 2, as well as the index volume (1-21) and the offprint index for volumes 1 through 5. Limitation varies between thirty and eighty copies. A complete set of the deluxe issues of... More
