Recent Arrivals from Bromer Booksellers
Recent Arrivals from Bromer Booksellers
The Fables of Aesop
by Aesop
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- 1943
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£228.70
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Jamaica, NY: Minia Press, 1943. Wood, Edmund S.. (35)ff. Liberally and lightheartedly illustrated throughout in black & white. Bound in red cloth with a turtle stamped in gold on the front cover. Includes scarce original red cardboard slipcase. A fine copy, slipcase only slightly rubbed. (2 by 1 5/8 in.; 51x42 mm). Item Price
£228.70
Woodwork Patterns
by Turpin, M.
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- Used
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- 1930
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£228.70
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Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co, 1930. Oblong octavo. (12)ff. Each leaf provides a different design, with instructions for removing the stencils - then to be used as guides for the emergent carpenter - and for assembly. The kit includes an arm chair, a soldier, a table, a squirrel-shaped door stop, a Nosey Nellie ring game, a movable elephant, frog-… Read more about this item Item Price
£228.70
Gems for Girls and Boys
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- 1850
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£159.61
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Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1850. 48mo. 16pp. A small compendium of verses for the small reader, accompanied by engravings of plants, animals, and occasional pastoral scenes. Exterior overall lightly foxed, faint dampstain apparent at left margin, else very good in blue wrappers. Item Price
£159.61
God's Gift to Children: A Folktale of the Mensa Bet-Abrehe People
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- 1993
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£228.70
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Oak Park, IL: Jubilee Press, 1993. (8)ff. A linocut of Africa follows the text, a folktale from northern Ethiopia, which explains children come to rule over their parents. Printed by Amos Paul Kennedy with handset Lydian type; and installment in the Press' Ancestors Series. Bound in imported fabric from an unspecified African country. Fine. (2 15/16 by 2 1/2;… Read more about this item Item Price
£228.70
Miniature book case
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- n.d.)
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£68.29
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(N.p., n.d.). Two-door bookcase with single lower drawer. Tassles to door handles. "Made in Japan" sticker underneath. Fine. (5 1/2 by 4 1/2 by 2 1/8 in.; 139x115x53 mm). Item Price
£68.29
Tribal Alphabet
by McCarthy, Mary
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- 1998
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£685.31
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Boston, 1998. McCarthy, Mary. Octavo. (30)ff. One of twenty-six copies, signed and numbered by the artist. An abecedarian study of traditional masks from indigenous African peoples, from the Adauma of Gabon to the Zande of Zaire. A prefatory page organizes the tribes by modern countries, and at the rear is a reference list. Images reproduced by scanning orignal collages.… Read more about this item Item Price
£685.31
A Glance at Private Libraries
by Farnham, Luther
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- 1991
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£867.95
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Weston, MA: M&S Press, 1991. Octavo. 98pp. One of 350 copies. This copy specially bound by Jean de Gonet in revorim covers with exposed red bands and red titling to leather spine. The text is a reprint of the Boston edition of 1855, here with introduction and annotated index contributed by Roger E. Stoddard, at the time the Curator… Read more about this item Item Price
£867.95
The Broken Promise: or, The Cottage on the Heath
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- 1825
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£685.31
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NY: S. King, 1825. 32mo. 23pp. Full-page frontispiece engraving showing a churchyard, and nine further engravings throughout engage this tale of mortality and morality and the perils of growing up. Bound in blue printed wrappers with publishers advertisement to lower cover. Some foxing, scant exterior rubbing, else near fine. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Item Price
£685.31
The Traveling Merriment Troupe!
by Hutchins, Edward
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- 1991
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£159.61
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Chatham, NY: Editions, 1991. Hutchins, Edward. (48)pp. Signed by the artist. Illustrations in orange complement the text, in black, of a tale of acrobatic, artistic, and otherwise entertaining animals; an abstraction, as cited at the colophon, of Isaiah 11:6-9, which is also printed on a fold-out sheet tipped-in to rear. Fine in green paper wrappers and comb binding. (2… Read more about this item Item Price
£159.61
Ruth and Naomi; or, The Affectionate Daught-in-Law
by (Corner, Julia)
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- 1858
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£411.34
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London: Dean & Son, 1858. 24mo. 27, (1)pp. Frontispiece woodcut plus eight further full-page illustrations, all hand-colored. Issued without a title page. Authorship indicated by publisher's advertisment at rear cover, where this and other titles are "Priced Sixpence Each, Edited by Miss Corner." Bound in plain printed wrappers, with upper cover illustration colored. Some exterior soiling, few chips, single… Read more about this item Item Price
£411.34
The Book of Plagues: Indifference Panic Blame
by Lovejoy, Margot
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- 1994
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£159.61
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Purchase, NY: Center for Editions, Visual Arts Division, SUNY Purchase, 1994. Square octavo. 24pp + internal bound-in booklet. Produced in collaboratin with Clifton Meador, and with contributions from Dorothy Levenson and Paula Treichler, Lovejoy here situates the public health catastrophe of the AIDS crisis and its rippling cultural and political polemics within a historical context of other epidemics and… Read more about this item Item Price
£159.61
The Story of Writing
by Merriott, William and William Thayer
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- 1935
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£228.70
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Greenfield, MA: Greenfield High School, 1935. 76pp. No limitation indicated, although this volume is number 127. Printed and bound by William Merriott and William Thayer as their senior project at Greenfield High, under the direction of their teacher, Anthony T. Stavaski. Concludes with the well-trodden anxiety over the state of handwriting in an age of mechanical reproduction. Fine in… Read more about this item Item Price
£228.70
Miniature Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1834
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- 1834
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£182.64
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Boston: Carter, Hendee and Co, 1834. (32)pp. A pocket-sized almanac with great aphoristic value; maxims accompany the tabulations of the months, there is a note providing "Knowledge of Law for Families," on the legal relation between a husband and wife, and the final leaves relay some sayings from Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack. The keen observer will notice the… Read more about this item Item Price
£182.64
Going, Going...Gone!
by Price, Richard
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- 2013
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£1,826.43
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Bosham, UK: Circle Press, 2013. King, Ronald. Square small quarto. 7 unbound triptych sheets. One of thirty copies, signed by Price and King. Price's verses appear alongside King's illustrations, which have been deeply embossed into the papers, mostly in blind but with choice additions of color. Each triptych articulates the case for animals presently threatened by or having already… Read more about this item Item Price
£1,826.43
Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song
by Glaister, Donald
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- 2002
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£7,305.72
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Cleveland, OH: Foolsgold Studio, 2002. Glaister, Donald. Quarto. (28)pp. One of 60 copies, this being number one. The long history of the Brooklyn Bridge as artistic muse here finds a deeply material instantiation at the hand of Glaister, who in his introductory poem extols the ways it "spans," "moves," "defines," and "endures." Certainly the book itself exemplifies these qualities,… Read more about this item Item Price
£7,305.72
The Wonderful History of Blue Beard
by (Perreault, Charles)
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- 1840
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£320.02
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Smithfield: J. L. Marks, 1840. 32mo. 12pp. Frontispiece woodcut showing a rather gothic take on Blue Beard defending himself from animate skeletons. One of several editions issued by Marks, this rather scarce, with no apparent holdings recorded in OCLC. Bound in tan printed wrappers with publisher's advertisements at lower. Some exterior soiling and motes of chipping, else very good.… Read more about this item Item Price
£320.02
The Poetry of Sir Walter Scott
by Scott, Sir Walter
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- 1890
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£1,141.92
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Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1890. Six 64mo volumes. The titles included in this set are: Lord of the Isles, Lay of the Last Minstrel, Rokeby and the Field of Waterloo, The Lady of the Lake, Marmion, and Minor Poems. Each with an engraved frontispiece depicting a Scottish landmark. All identically bound in full blue cloth with a black-stamped… Read more about this item Item Price
£1,141.92
Do Sit Down!
by Hutchins, Edward
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- 1992
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£273.96
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Hudson, NY: Edward Hutchins, 1992. One of thirty copies, signed by the artist. Fourteen double-page spreads, accordion-fold, urging the reader to calm their worried mind. Provides a chair for the purpose, to which the book is affixed. Fine. Held in acrylic box. (1 15/16 by 1 15/16 in.; 49x49mm). Item Price
£273.96
A Spectral Child Appears Before the Big Cat
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- 2003
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£137.38
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(N.p.: Gotham Book Mart, 2003. Gorey, Edward. Etching on paper. One of fifty copies, issued posthumously by the Gotham Book Mart, depicting an atmospheric standoff between a boy and a cat. Fine in mat. (Image measures 1 7/8 by 5 15/16 in.; 47x151mm). Item Price
£137.38
Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
by Burns, Robert
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- 1896
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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£411.34
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Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1896. 240pp. Reduced facsimile of the first edition, which had been printed in Kilmarnock by John Wilson in 1786. Bound in wrappers, and held in a quite monumental covered in red morocco and gilt-tooled and -titled, with matching chemise. Mild soiling, else fine. (Garbett, p. 27; Spielmann 69). (1 3/16 by 7/8; 30x20mm). … Read more about this item Item Price
£411.34