Illustrated Books from Bromer Booksellers

(Tannersville, NY): Tideline Press, 1976. Three oblong 16mo volumes. (12); (12); (12)ff. One of twenty-six deluxe, lettered copies. Signed by the author, as well as by the illustrator, Elaine Scull, and the printer and designer, Leonard Seastone. The trilogy consists of Pioneers, The Cavalryman, and The Island Hunter. Each begins with a two-page spread as a title page, incorporating… Read more about this item

(Boston, MA): Laura Davidson, 1996. Davidson, Laura. Linocut on paper. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist. (6 1/4 by 7 1/2 in.; 162x191 mm).

Izmir, 2009. Oblong quarto. (6)pp., + 10 plates. One of nineteen copies, signed by the artist. Following brief statement examining the points of intersection between paper marbling and the animal kingdom, Sönmez includes ten tipped-in original samples of her own work, each one signed and depicting aquatic fauna in motion across a watery page. Bound in full blue leather… Read more about this item

London, Czechoslovakia: Bancroft & Co, (n.d.). Kubasta, Vojtech. Small quarto. (16)pp. Illustrated with eight landscape-oriented pop-up images, in full color and some with movable elements. Manipulating particular tabs causes the evil queen's image in the mirror to change from her face to Snow White's, the dwarves to appear while Snow White sleeps in their beds, and the queen, disguised… Read more about this item

Cazenovia, NY: Gleaner Press, 1966. Marx, Robert. Octavo. 12pp + 9 inserted plates etched and hand-printed by Marx and signed by him. Of an edition fo eighty copies, this is one of fifteen specially bound. The artist, the translator, and the binder have all signed the colophon. These punctuate Eva Thoby-Marcelin's translation of Maupassant's short story, which narrates the… Read more about this item

Eugene, OR: Lone Goose Press, 1997. Eschner, Robin. Square small quarto. (22)pp., accordionfold. One of fifty copies, signed by both the author and by the artist, Robin Eschner. Deeply printed with Eschner's woodcuts, the whole unfolds into a nearly 22-foot-long panorama up to the task of Lopez's melancholy celebration of the American landscape, as seen from his Toyota 4-Runner.… Read more about this item

Italy: Novelties of Purpose, Angela Lorenz Artists Books, 2002. Lorenz, Angela. Square 16mo. Third edition. A pop-up museum, housed in a magic lantern box, which guides the viewer through a history of museums themselves, from Ancient Greece through the 18th century. Accompanying verse matches the conceit, describing cabinets of curiosities and other collecting fashions of Europe. Fine. Laid in… Read more about this item

Boston: Heron Press, 1979. Davis, Steve. 16mo. (33)pp. One of 100 copies, signed at the colophon by the author. Frontispiece and four additional woodcuts executed by Davis in a range of colors, with images suitably esoteric to go along with Metz's somewhat mystagogic verses. Bound in quarter red morocco with black cloth over boards. Faint rubbing overall to covers,… Read more about this item

Munich: Braun und Schneider, 1888. Quarto. (17)pp. Eight hand-colored plates, each one operated by a pull-tab, which when manipulated reveals an animal emerging from the scenery. Facing each is a nursery rhyme reveling in the quirks of the hedgehog, frog, weasel, snail, hare, beetle, squirrel, or starling. Bound in paper-covered boards backed in purple cloth. Spine toned, general exterior… Read more about this item

(N.p., 1970. Moser, Barry. Wood engraving on paper. Signed by the artist. A proof for Moser's first book under his Pennyroyal Press imprint, Bacchanalia. Some toning at margins of sheet, unobtrusive to image. (Measures 11 by 8 1/2 in.; 280x214 mm).

(Buren, Netherlands): Frits Knuf, 1989. Frigge, Karli. Tall quarto. (15)pp., (6)ff. One of 55 copies, signed by Frigge. With a foreword by the artist in both Dutch and English. These six marbled papers were made by Frigge in 1979 with paints contaminated with dead mayflies. The structure of the paint was so changed that when it was put on… Read more about this item

(NY, 1924. Octavo. (11)pp. Four color linocut plates, one of which serves as titling. Four pages of text instruct the nascent illustrator-printer in how to "design, cut and print linoleum blocks," from preparation to particular substrates. A rear folio, not fully opened, contains seven loose exemplar plates. Bound in marbled paper-covered boards with block-printed title to upper cover. Some… Read more about this item

(Buren: Frits Knuf, 1988. Frigge, Karli. Oblong quarto. (11)pp., (12)ff. One of 99 copies, signed by the artist. This copy with a second inscription, appearing at the final page of the English foreword: "Sorry, the label is not gold stamped! / Karli." Illustrated with twelve examples of Frigge's marbled papers which are evocative of landscapes. Bound in vellum-backed marbled… Read more about this item

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1939. Thurber, James. Oblong small quarto. First edition. Inscribed by Thurber at the front flyleaf. When Thurber published the book in 1939, just a few months after the beginning of World War II, all hopes that civilization might break the cycle of war had been dashed. Illustrated with Thurber's simple and expressive cartoons, the story… Read more about this item

(Japan, 1930. Three volumes. (7); (5); (5)ff. Two volumes, of smaller stature, show various potted flowers, and the third offers various playful depictions of bicycles and their riders. All printed on paper that has been lacquered to preserve the brightly colored images. All bound in full decorative cloth over boards. Fine. (Smaller volumes measure 9/16 by 7/16 in.; 16x13mm.… Read more about this item

Prague: Nakladem Zoologicke zahrady v Praze-Troji, 1937. Octavo. 4pp., + 40 plates, each one printed in red and green for 3-D viewing, enabled by the astonishingly rare survival of four 3-D glasses held in a sleeve inserted into the front board. Each plate shows a different animal, altogether an exciting and almost realistic personal zoo. The history of three-dimensional… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Nister, 1895. Square octavo. (12)pp. Four chromolithographed volvelles encourage the young reader to align the pictures with their appropriate letters. The first apparatus, for example, situates a drum with "D," a train engine with "E," and sacks of flour with "F." Accompanying these are verses, the first of which matches the mnemonic movables. This work is known… Read more about this item

Santa Monica: Graphic Communications Consultants, 1970. Octavo. (28)pp. Of considerable visual impact photographically and typographically, the calendar begins in July 1970 and ends with June 1971. Each month organizes its days according to significant events in feminist history, added to which are numerous portraits of relevant figures emblematic of the movement, even anachronistically (Queen Elizabeth I, for example). The… Read more about this item

Moscow: Detizdat, 1938. Konashevich, Vladimir. (10)pp. A miniature, lyrical children's book, with color lithographs illustrating scenes of a child's fond relationship with a toy horse. Kvitko was a Ukranian-born Yiddish-language poet and author; his literary and ethnic status made him a target of the Stalinist government, and he was executed in 1952 during what has now become known as… Read more about this item

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Read more about this item