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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NY: 6x9 Press, 1957. Oblong octavo. 12 ff., frenchfold. One of an unspecified, but undoubtedly small edition. Illustrated with nine hand-colored linocuts by Chwast. With an Introduction by Dachine Rainer, the anarchist writer whose novella, A Room at the Inn, would be published the following year. An early work by... More
(London/Andoversford): Acorn Press/Whittington Press, 1975. Oblong quarto. (28)ff., frenchfold. One of 60 copies signed by the artist, Hellmuth Weissenborn. Illustrated with twenty-seven linocuts printed in two colors. Weissenborn's colorful alphabet is accompanied by quotations about various aspects of printing from philosophical and literary luminaries, such as Byron, Nietschze, and Southey... More
London: Acorn Press, (1982). Octavo. (176)pp. One of 350 copies. Each sonnets is headed by a wood engraving in orange or brown by Weissenborn. Typeset by the Whittington Press and printed by the Rocket Press. Bound in gray cloth with printed paper over boards. Fine in matching slipcase. More
Westminster: Haymarket Press, 1930. Folio. 156pp. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with tipped-in facsimile images of eight folios from the fourteenth-century manuscript known as Queen Mary's Psalter. Printed at the Alcuin Press. Each psalm is headed by a woodcut initial. Bound in full leather with gilt border to upper cover... More
Kentfield, Calif. Allen Press, 1967. Folio. 200 pp. One of 130 copies. Preface by Joseph Haslewood. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of the woodcuts from the edition of 1480. Bound in full tan cloth, with illustrations to the front cover and red lettering to the cover and spine. Barely discernable sunning... More
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1960. Quarto. 110pp. One of 150 copies signed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Preface by Oscar Lewis. Printed in black and red, with title, seven large initials, and eighteen decorations engraved on wood by Mallette Dean, and hand-colored. These stories are selected from thirteen tales written... More
Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1980. Quarto, unbound as issued, in three sections of (17), (13), (18)ff. One of 140 copies. Illustrated with pen & ink drawings by Michele Forgeois. Described by the Allens as "the most colorful and elegant edition we have produced", it is printed in deep blue, orange... More
(Kentfield, CA, Allen Press, 1964). Folio in three parts. 22, 19, 20ff. One of 130 copies. With thirty-three reproductions of the original woodcuts and numerous two-color head-and tail-pieces by Mallette Dean, based on Caxton's border devices. Each section of the book opens with a full-page, handcolored initial. This book celebrated... More
Kentfield, Calif. Allen Press, 1973. Quarto. 155 pp. One of 137 copies. Each story is printed on a different hand-made paper, in a different typeface, with headings in a different color and a frontispiece by a different illustrator. The four illustrators are Blair Hughes-Stanton, Michele Forgeois, Joseph Low, and Paolo... More
Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1982. Octavo. 122pp. One of 140 copies printed in two colors on all-rag paper. The account of a year's travel in 1844-1845, using a villa in Genoa as a base. With decorated title, and headings in various colors. Very fine in hand-blocked Fortuny fabric over boards, glassine wrapper. More
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1956. Small quarto. 90pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated througout with wood engravings by Hughes-Stanton. The images depict the various supernatural forces that hold sway over the journey, such as Chance, the Fates, and the Elements. Printed on Japanese vellum, and bound in marbled papers over... More
(Kentfield, CA): Allen Press, 1959. Small quarto. One of 200 copies with hand-colored marginal decorations by Mallette Dean and a frontispiece daguerreotype of John Charles Duchow and his family. With a foreword by George P. Hammond. Fine in cloth-backed decorated paper boards. More
Kenfield, CA: Allen Press, 1974. Large quarto. (86)pp. One of 140 copies. Illustrated with a woodcut portrait of St. Anthony and numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Flaubert's text, based on a fifteenth-century Persian motif, is translated by Lafcadio Hearn, and edited by Francis Carmody. Minor glue offsetting to endleaf gutters... More
Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1991. Octavo. (108)pp. One of 115 copies printed in two colors. Frontispiece photograph of a sculpted self-portrait. Contains a brief biography and 87 sonnets, printed on ecru laid paper with headings in dark blue. Very fine in boards covered in handblocked Fortuny fabric and a glassine wrapper. More
Hillsborough, CA: Allen Press, 1948. Octavo. 181pp. One of 200 copies printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen, who operated at the time as the L-D Allen Press. With decorative headpieces by Mallette Dean, and illuminated initial capitals by the Allens. Chosen as one of AIGA's Fifty Books of the year... More
Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France: Allen Press, 1952. Octavo. 60pp. One of 300 copies. With pochoir decorations by Ray Bethers. An early publication of the Press, when they were known as the L-D Allen Press. This was the first Book Club of California title to be printed outside the United States. Fine in... More
Paris: Sénac, Jean-Vincent, (2001). Twenty-eight silkscreened cards, and brightly illustrated in four colors by French artist Jean-Vincent Sénac. Each card of this charming alphabet shows a letter in three styles, a word beginning with that letter, and a scene with that word illustrated. Each successive card is connected to the..... More
(N.p. Flagless Editions, 1984). 16mo. (21)pp. One of 167 copies. Cover illustration based on an unfinished series of lithographs by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. The text of this unusual alphabet poem was written by John Lennon in February 1969 for inclusion in the portfolio Bag One. Designed and printed... More
(N.p., n.d.). An original linoleum block print measuring 8 by 10 inches, tastefully matted and framed. Valenti Angelo here employs bold use of line and cross-hatching to show the texture of these trees, which are in the foreground, set against a predominantly black backdrop. Inscribed by the artist to Henry... More
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1978. Small quarto. (16)ff. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with four woodcuts by Thomas. These depict the brutal scenes of the story, including the children's refusal to bow before King Nebuchadnezzar's golden idol and the angel saving the children from burning. Above the story from the... More
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1993. Octavo. x, 107pp. One of 40 copies in bindings hand-painted by Carolyn Hammer and Paul Holbrook, from an edition of 75 copies printed by Hammer, in Victor Hammer's American Uncial typeface, the rest (in marbled boards) of which were given away as gifts. With initialed... More
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1964. Small quarto. (16)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Signed by the author and the printer. This scarce item was printed for the author by his friend Ronald Gordon, now the proprietor of the Oliphant Press in New York. With eight vignettes taken from wood engravings by... More
Northampton, MA: Apiary Press, 1957. Tall quarto. 16ff. One of 100 copies. The second book of the Press. Illustrated with twenty woodcuts, four of which are printed in two colors, engraved by Smith College students Judith Gustafson, Margaretta Kuhlthau, Gillian Lewis, and Mary Alice Taylor. Presentation inscription from Margaretta "Sis"... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011. Octavo. 169pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by Albee and Holland at the colophon. With three watercolor illustrations by Holland reproduced here by inkjet. Albee's play centers on the anxieties and dysfunction of a group of upper-middle-class suburbanites. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1996. Folio. (50)pp. One of 200 copies, signed by the translator and the artist. Michael Mazur has supplied a single etching as the frontispiece. Translated by Robert Alter from the Hebrew into the English language with facing text from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1967). Fine with minimal... More
