Search Results: Authors starting with H from Bromer Booksellers

Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1979. 92pp. One of 300 copies, signed by Jane Bernier. Frontispiece portrait of Hawthorne. Fine in marbled boards backed in teal leather. (13/16 by 10/16; 20x16mm).

New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1987. Octavo. First American edition, one of 250 copies specially bound and signed by the author. The Nobel laureate's tenth regularly published collection contains "From the Republic of Conscience," which Heaney contributed to Amnesty International to commemorate its 25th anniversary. That poem was published separately in 1985. Very fine in dark red cloth and matching paper-covered slipcase. (Brandes & Durkan A41.e).

(British Columbia): Barbarian Press, 2021. English, Andy. Octavo. xvii, (5), 271, cclxxi, (vi)pp. From an edition of 105 copies, this is one of 62 comprising the deluxe state, and thus accompanied by a portfolio of strikes of the engravings, which are supplied by Andy English and appear throughout the volume. Molly Holden (1927-1981) was a British poet, whose prolific poetic career (the present publication only represents approximately a third of her oeuvre) was informed yet unhindered by her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Many of Holden's poems reflect upon her condition, meditating upon feelings of capitivity and liberation, mortality and joy, the demise of the personal body and the richness of relationship. A powerful force of disability advocacy within and enabled by the lyric form, here presented by the Barbarian Press in its usual precise and evocative typography and craftsmanship. Bound, both literally and metaphorically, the reader opens the book to unbind them, to free them as Holden… Read More

(Munich): Bremer Presse, 1924. Simons, Anna. Two small folio volumes. 486; 372pp. One of 615 copies printed in Greek with titles by Anna Simons. These beautiful volumes are printed on Zanders handmade paper in a 16-point Greek type designed for the Press. Colin Franklin describes the Bremer "Homerou poiesis" as "magnificent examples of controlled printing." Touch of sunning to upper boards, else a fine, bright set in original blue boards with paper lettering piece on spine. (Franklin, p. 163; Lehnacker 15 &16).

(East Aurora): Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896. Octavo. 72, (ii)pp. One of twelve copies printed on Japan paper. Each page has a large decorated initial lettering the style of William Morris. Title-page and colophon printed in red and black. This was the first book of the Press and took Hubbard and his partner, Harry Taber, four months to complete. The colophon states that it was printed "with no power save that of human muscle," and expresses a "Thank God!" for its completion. A scarce book and rarely seen in such good condition. Corners rubbed, minor soiling, else a lovely copy in linen-backed antique boards. Inscribed on the colophon "with kindly greetings from Elbert Hubbard." Bookplate. (McKenna 8).

Cambridge, MA, 1953. Single sheet of Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Dard Hunter Museum letterhead. Dated April 16, 1953, and addressed to Louis W. Doll of the Charles E. Tuttle Company in Vermont, to whose prior correspondence Hunter here responds. The crux of Hunter's letter concerns watermark techniques - specifically the manner in which Japanese papermakers "tried to imitate the European type of light-and-shade watermarking." Hunter then explains that "(t)he Japanese method is a hand-rubbing process after the paper has been formed, while the European method is done entirely through the use of an embossed mould." He references a specimen accompanying his letter, presumably the example included here, and closes with a sentiment of anticipation for the arrival of "the copy of the Papermaking book when it arrives from Japan." Given the subject, timeframe, and recipient of this letter, it seems likely that the book in question is The Handmade Papers of Japan by Thomas Tindale, published by… Read More

(New Britain, CT: Art Press, 1971. Massmann, Robert. (16)pp., frenchfold. One of 50 copies. The Foreword by Massmann is signed by him. Hunter's account of the post-Civil War reuse of Egyptian mummies' wrappings by a Maine paper merchant is bound in stiff wrappers in the shape of a sarcophagus with the profile of a mummy at the top. The cover wrapper is made from the last lot of paper made by Dard Hunter at Lime Rock mill. This is a fine copy of one of Massmann's scarcest titles. (Bradbury, p. 240). (1 5/8 by 2 1/16; 41x52mm).

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 3/8 by 2 5/8; 60x70mm).

Hudson, NY: Edward Hutchins, 1992. Hutchins, Edward. 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; 49x49mm).