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
Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1979. Octavo. 102pp. One of 250 copies. Translated by Charles Martin, Catullus' ribald and passionate poems have been set in Joanna and Romulus types and printed on Rives paper by Harry Duncan and Mark Watson. Bound in cloth-backed boards covered in marbled papers, with a paper spine..... More
(Boston): Boston Public Library/Society of Printers, 2001. Octavo. First edition. One of 500 copies. Thirty-two pages of color and black & white illustrations from photographs. The story of Dorothy Abbe's contributions to printing, book design, typography, photography, writing, and teaching is gathered from her archives at the Boston Public Library..... 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
Philadelphia: Taylor & Hessey, 1981. Octavo. 28pp. One of 400 copies. A humorous analysis of the travel agency industry, rendered even more amusing when read by those of us in the twenty-first century. Fine in plain wrappers. More
Marcham, Oxford: Alembic Press, 1995. (20)pp. One of 110 copies. Six woodcuts by Brett, printed in burgundy and black. These punctuate the Te Deum hymn, which is tidily presented using type from St. Mary's Press, the private press of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin). The music rests on..... More
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1953. Octavo. lxpp. One of 160 copies. Printed in blue and black, with title and four wood engraved illustrations by Mallette Dean, each beautifully handcolored by Dorothy Allen. Spine faded, else a fine copy in French marbled paper boards. Prospectus laid-in. More
Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1956. Small quarto. 90pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated throughout 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, 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
San Francisco: Allen Press, 1947. Octavo. (98)pp. One of 350 copies. Designed and printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Illustrated with five halftones. An early Allen Press title, this marks their third consecutive commission from the Book Club of California. Minor rubbing to extremities, else near fine copy in cloth-backed..... 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
Barcelona: Nowhereman Press, 2007. Quarto. (12)pp. accordion fold. One of twenty-five copies. Signed by the artist. The book presents the alphabet and single integers as an expanding concertina, so that the letters and numbers grow and shift as the reader opens the volume. The set is inspired by children's alphabet..... 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
Bronxville, NY: Valenti Angelo, (1963). Small quarto. (18)pp. One of fifty copies. Signed by Angelo. Title roundel printed in blue and illuminated. Five-line gold initial, six-line blue initial, eight-line red initial hand-drawn. A dignified edition of a significant Biblical passage. Bound in half-vellum with brown paper boards. Spine moderately toned..... 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, 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
Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, 2005. Folio. (45)ff. One of 80 copies. Contains thirty-seven illustrations depicting American inventions ranging from the profound (Morse code, cloning, etc.) to the underappreciated (American cheese singles, flyswatter, etc.). Printed using "metal foundry type, wood type, linoleum blocks, laser-cut masonite, and digital polymer plates." Occasionally mixed..... More
San Francisco & Berkeley: Pacific Editions & Arif Press, 1986. Quarto. 36pp. One of 165 copies, signed by the author and artist. "A collaboration among artists," this work contains four essays by Dr. Lewis Thomas, each accompanied by a specially commissioned color etching by Joseph Goldyne, plus one additional etching..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017. Small quarto. 214pp. One of 300 copies, signed by the author. Illustrated with twenty photo-collages by John Baldessari, based on stills from B-movies. These images were then set before Bentley, who authored twenty scenes to accompany them. The volume has been crafted as a mock..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Quarto. xxi, 101pp. From an edition of 400 copies, this is one of 200 with a photographic portrait of the author by Edmund Shea and a signed chromolithograph by Wayne Thiebaud. The portrait is printed here for the first time. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn, who..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2009. Large octavo. 274pp., + 68 pages of color and black & white photographs. One of 300 copies, signed by the author and the artist. The fiftieth anniversary edition of Connell's novel, which has been regarded as "probably the great feminist novel written by a man,"..... More
