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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Sante Fe: Amaranth Press, 1982. Tall octavo. 77pp. One of 110 copies. A beautifully printed book of sacred songs in Latin and English, with opening strapwork initials designed by Mark Livingston and handcolored by the printer, Linnea Gentry. An elegant production from Linnea Gentry's fine press. Slight sunning to upper..... More
(Boston): Boston Public Library/Society of Printers, 2001. Octavo. 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 and told..... 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: Alembic Press, 2000. Octavo. 119pp. From an edition of 180 copies, this is one of twenty bound in leather and with extra samples tipped in. Bolton's oevre is a comprehensive and highly illustrated summation of all the Alembic Press' borders. It is, in its own way, a love letter..... More
Marcham, Oxfordshire: Alembic Press, 1994. (45)pp. One of 100 copies. Illustrated with charming line drawings following the story of a plush alligator who endears himself to a young girl. Entirely printed in green. Bound in quarter green cloth with glazed green paste-paper boards; googly eyes affixed to the upper cover..... More
(Kentfield, CA): Allen Press, 1976. Quarto. (108) pp. One of 140 copies. The frontispiece is a portrait of Cleopatra, hand-painted in the style of ancient Egypt, by artists in Cairo using seven colors and gold on papyrus. In addition, each of the five Acts opens with a woodcut hand-colored by..... More
Cambridge, MA: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College, 1968. Square 16mo. (8)ff. One of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Marie Angel, who also contributed illustrations to A. Colish's 1974 edition of The Velveteen Rabbit, here adorns Dickinson's two poems with a diverse array of butterflies set softly..... More
(N.p.): Angelica Press, 1976. Octavo. xi, 99pp. Illustrations primarily in green with black and white outlining. Running titles in green. Travels to places fictional and real, from Laputa to Lilliput to Japan, as told in the first person. Bound in quarter red cloth and buckram, with green and black illustration..... 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
![Item #30146 Los Fusilamientos [The Shootings]. Ildefonso Manuel Gil](https://bromer.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30146.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667508557)
Aurora, NY: Wells College Press, 2003 (but 2014). Folio. (9)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the author, Ildefonso Manuel Gil, before his passing in 2003. Each lithograph titled, numbered, signed, and dated by the artist as well. A suite of four lithographs, plus an original drawing, by Roberts embrace..... More
(Northampton, MA): Apiary Press, 1961. 16mo. (10)ff. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist. Eight etched portraits of Hemingway, all in different sizes and some in color. Heimburg's hand reflects, as do many such acolytes, the instruction and style of her mentor, Leonard Baskin. As preface to the portraits..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2017. Quarto. 16ff + 10ff. From an edition of forty-five, this is one of ten deluxe copies specially bound, and with an extra suite of the metal cuts. Apollinaire's erotic poem is illustrated with metal cuts after brush drawings by Gunnar Kaldewey, printed in red, blue..... More
Lewisburg, PA: Appletree Alley, 1992. Octavo. 45, (3)pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the illustrator, Linda Plotkin, at the colophon. Four of Plotkin's illustrations punctuate Valentine's poetry. Composed of highly saturated colors abstractly cast over dark backgrounds, the images reflect and enhance the surges of anxiety, love, and nostaglia..... More
La Plata, Argentina: 2015. 16mo. (v), (30)pp. One of seven copies. Apo's poetry, which meditates on loss, impermanence, and despair, appears on the versos, facing on the rectos Cecilia Blu Blau's woodcuts. Blu Blau is a tattoo artist and illustrator, and her images shine with the bold lines and black..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1982. Folio. (64)pp. From an edition of 165, this is one of fifteen hors commerce copies, signed by Jim Dine and by Andrew Hoyem, the printer. This publication marks only the second artist's book from the Press, in addition to being its first collaboration with Dine..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2003. Octavo. 12pp. One of 500 copies. A talk presented by John T. Shawcross at the Arion Press on January 29, 2003, during its celebration of the publication of a new edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Bound in gray paper wrappers. Fine. (Arion Bibliography, p...... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2014. Small folio. (156)pp. One of 275 copies. With an Introduction by Helen Vendler. For the one hundredth publication of the Arion Press, Andrew Hoyem pays homage to his mentors, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn - whose 1930 edition of Whitman's seminal text is echoed in the..... More
San Francisco, CA: Hosfelt Gallery, 1997. One of 100 copies, signed by Wegner in the volume titled "Remarks on Color." The other volumes are titled "Remarks" and "Color," and, as the division of names suggests, these first two volumes' disparate parts are combined in the third volume, to great poetic..... More
Portland, ME: Ascensius Press, 1989. Octavo. (viii), 37, (4)pp. One of fifty copies. Signed by the author, Kenneth Rosen, and the artist, Richard Wilson, at the colophon. Wilson's compelling woodcuts illustrate Rosen's lauded poems, underscoring their wit and emotion with sharp lines and deep blacks. An extra suite of the..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Edition Kaldewey, 1987. Oblong small quarto. (18)pp. One of forty-five regular copies. Signed by John Ashbery and Jonathan Lasker. Three original drawings by Lasker capture his real-time reactions of Ashbery's poem (and, presumably, the act of repetition with variation throughout an entire edition). Printed and executed on handmade..... More
![Item #25424 Original Unbound Sheets [from the Ashendene Press], 1923-1935](https://bromer.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/25424.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667508392)
(Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1961). Small folio portfolio. One of seventeen portfolios distributed by Dawson's Book Shop. Contains Dawson's contents sheet, plus 20 leaves of proof, trial, and discarded sheets, which were purchased from the daughter of C. H. St. John Hornby. These are: an eight-page signature from The..... More
Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, 2017. 24mo. (79)pp., + six loose plates. One of 60 deluxe copies. Engravings by John Lawrence printed largely from wood, with some detailed spots in larger engravings from polymer plates, all in the Press' customary assortment of bright colors. Texts from over forty songs and..... More
Brooklyn: David Barthold, 2020. Broadside. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, David Barthold. Screenprint of Barthold’s portrait of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 2020, Barthold’s portraits of Ginsburg, George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police in May accelerated the Black Lives Matter movement, and..... More
London: Basilisk Press, 1979. Quarto. 180pp., + (10)ff. From an edition of 500 copies, this is one of twenty-five with ten original wood engravings bound-in subsequent to the text, five of which are signed by the book's illustrator, Edward Gordon Craig. For decades, Craig nurtured an interest in Daniel Defoe's..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1969. Folio. (70)pp. From an edition of 200 copies, this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner, who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin, nine of which are signed..... More
