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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Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 2003. Quarto. xv, (3), 99pp. One of 215 copies. Van Niekerk's wood engravings throughout, including frontispiece portrait of Herbert and a rendering of the Vitruvian Man on the whole of page 36. Edited, with introduction and notes, by The Earl of Powis. Bound in quarter-leather by Alan..... More
Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1983. Octavo. (20)ff. One of 250 copies. Eleven wood engravings by Sarah Van Niekerk, one of which is double-page. Extracts from Kilvert's writings, selected and introduced by Meic Stephens. Quarter-cloth binding with marbled paper covers and paper spine label. Faint edgewear, else fine. More
Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1951. Octavo, 182pp. One of 152 unnumbered copies printed by Carolyn Reading in black and red American Uncial type on Japanese Hosho paper. Translated from the German by Victor Hammer and Thornton Sinclair with an introduction by Hammer. Autograph note from Hammer to Florentine scholar..... More
Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2019. Single sheet; folded, the recto provides a synopsis of Farrell’s fraught summer of 2018, when her daughter underwent nearly eight weeks of chest radiation treatments to stem the growth of tumors around her lungs. The side effects were devastating, and the following winter was awash with..... More
Brussels: mfc-michèle didier, 2006. Octavo. (96)pp. One of 250 copies. An entrancing yet mildly unsettling illustration of conversation, Joseph Grigely’s book presents one continuous text of 45,000 words transcribed from written conversations that the artist has been collecting for the past ten years. The transcription mimics the words’ original presentations..... More
Gambier, OH: Unit IV Arts, 2021. Sheffield’s visual and poetic meditation on “lostness” stems, particularly, from an article on Lost Person Behavior, which is the science of applying profiles to know how and where to search for someone, and, generally, from the pervasive and at times either abstract or tangible..... More
Portland, OR: Relay Replay Press, 2011. Wang’s book unfolds through layers of memory in a most literal way, containing within its small self a multitude of images and textures to mimic the scrapbook recollections of a human mind. This particular mind is that of Arnie Metz, one of five seniors..... More
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd, 1991. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan, who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2015). Two large quarto volumes. (55); (50)ff. From an edition of thirty-six copies, this is one of thirty, signed by the two authors. Binder Claudia Cohen and book designer Barbara Hodgson, makers of The WunderCabinet, Cutting Paper, and a four-part series on color, come together once again..... More
Vancouver, BC: HM Editions, 2015. Small octavo. 16, (6)pp., + 11 plates, + (4)pp. One of six A. P. copies. Signed by the contributors: Barbara Hodgson (author, illustrator, and designer), Rollin Milroy (printer), and Claudia Cohen (binder). An exploration, in theory and practice, of the intersection of art and science..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2010. Broadside measuring 22 by 15 inches. One of thirty copies—this copy marked "Position proof." Unsigned. With full-page illustration of a hermaphroditic figure, titled "The Botanist," and two smaller text figures of mushrooms, all from drawings by Atsushi Fukui. Sylvian was the former frontman for the..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2011. Quarto. 96pp. From an edition of thirty copies, this is one of two optioned for a test binding. Signed by the author/illustrator, Jim Westergard. Illustrated with forty wood engravings immortalizing infamous people, ranging from well-known oddballs such as Lizzie Borden and Hunter Thompson, to more..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2010. Quarto. (13)ff. One of sixty copies. Signed by the artist at colophon, as well as on verso of each pigment print. The prints have been hand-touched with watercolor and are individually enclosed in over-beaten abaca paper folios on which twelve poems written by..... More
(Santa Barbara, CA): Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. Octavo volume and strand of ten paper prayer flags. (22)ff., + 20ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist. Mary Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether..... More
(Santa Barbara, CA): Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. Octavo volume and strand of ten paper prayer flags. (22)ff. + 20ff. One of twenty copies. Signed by Heebner. Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether. Written in..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Simplemente Maria Press, 2000. One of fifty copies. Twelve prints from Heebner's Isla Negra series of paintings appear in the center of trifolded sheets, with twelve of Neruda's poems of the sea tipped in on either side: the original Spanish at the right, and Alastair Reid's English..... More
(N.p. Golden Cockerel Press, 1981). One of three known copies of Josef Herman's lithographs, gathered as a suite and intended to illustrate the Golden Cockerel Press's final book. The book was never published and the lithographs languished until their discovery some twenty years later. Printed in blue and black, the..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1970. Octavo. (5) pp. One of 100 copies, signed by the artist. An essay by Boreman about the ephemeron, or Mayfly, that first appeared in A Description of Some Curious and Uncommon Creatures in 1739. Illustrated with three delicate colored etchings by Lance Hidy depicting the..... More
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in..... More
San Francisco, CA: Pacific Editions, 2004. Two-part edition: oblong octavo and oblong 48mo. (8); (24)ff. One of 54 copies, signed by the printer/designer/artist, Charles Hobson, on the colophon. Interleaved among the larger volume's pages of Wilbur's poem are sheets of vellum containing hand-painted patterns printed as digital pigments, and into..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, (2015). Two large quarto volumes bound as one. (55); (50)ff. From an edition of thirty-six, this is one of six contributor's copies signed by the two authors. Binder Claudia Cohen and book designer Barbara Hodgson, makers of The WunderCabinet, Cutting Paper, and a four-part series on color..... More
1998. Relief engraving. Donald Hall, who served as 14th Poet Laureate of the United States from 2006-2007 and to whom this copy is inscribed, was the model for Ecclesiastes. Signed by the artist. AP. Framed. (17 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.). More
Somerville, MA: Sarah Hulsey, 2018. Here, Hulsey pursues Galileo's comparison of the study of the cosmos with the study of a book to a literal end, codifying linguistic mathematics through forms offered by translation, Galileo's own astronomical diagrams, and a book's very structure. Where Galileo's metaphor underscored the importance of..... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece..... More
Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1981; 1983. Two folio volumes. 198; (131)pp. One of 150 copies signed by the author. Volume I contains numerous specimen woodcuts, title pages, advertisements, letterheads, and color photographs tipped or bound in, all showing various aspects of Hunter's non-papermaking work, including enamel, stained glass, and his..... More
