Search Results: Authors starting with W from Bromer Booksellers

(Cranberry Isles, Maine: Tidal Press, 1975. Wadsworth, Charles. Broadside. Signed by the author. A poem and an illustration of a chickadee, both by Charles Wadsworth, who along with his wife, Jean Howard, was proprietor of Tidal Press. Fine.

Portland, OR: Relay Replay Press, 2011. Wang, Shu-Ju. Oblong 32mo. (16)pp., accordion-fold, with each recto panel expanding in a foldout. One of twenty-six copies, signed by the artist. Wang's book unfolds through layers of memory in a most literal way, containing within its small self a multitude of images and textures to mimic the scrapbook recollections of a human mind. This particular mind is that of Arnie Metz, one of five seniors suffering from memory loss with whom Wang worked after receiving a 2008 Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant. Wang's attention to detail in her artwork here highlights her clear attention to Arnie while she interacted with him. Throughout the pages are Arnie's handwritten notes, drawings, letters, and wedding vows, and photographs supplied by family and friends in the forms of silkscreen prints and Solarplate etchings. The etchings appear on custom papers made by Helen Heibert containing soil from Arnie's farms in South Dakota and on Sauvie Island and water from the… Read More

NY: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. Ward, Lynd. Octavo. First edition. This is Ward's second woodcut novel, with the story told exclusively via woodcut illustrations. Through this dramatic and expressive non-verbal style, Ward communicated situations and emotions using nothing more than the woodcut's stark contrast of black and white. Bit of light rubbing along bottom edge, else a fine, bright copy in decorated boards backed with black cloth, and with increasingly uncommon dust jacket, which, but for a touch of toning, is equally fine.

NY: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1930. Ward, Lynd. First edition, second printing. This is Ward's second woodcut novel, with the story told exclusively via woodcut illustrations. Through this dramatic and expressive non-verbal style, Ward communicated situations and emotions using nothing more than the woodcut's stark contrast of black and white. A fine copy in a variant binding of black cloth over boards and paper label to spine, in a very good dust wrapper showing few chips. Signature of former owner on front flyleaf.

Cleveland and NY: World Publishing Company, 1967. Octavo. (viii), (194)pp. Inscribed on the half-title by Lynd Ward to Dan Burne Jones, who worked, albeit without public fruition, on a bibliography of Ward's works. Without text, this "story" tells with pictures the tale of a young man trapped in a drab industrial world. Ward's expressive woodcuts are printed in two colors, black to signify the real world, and orange to signify the world of the mind. Mild rubbing corners, else near fine in full clay-colored cloth over boards. In a near fine dust wrapper, scantly abraded.

Echo Bay, ON; Cresskill, NJ; McLean, VA, 1971. Five handwritten ALs sent by Lynd Ward to an unknown Mr. Fletcher. The first three letters describe a prolonged purchase of the print "Cup of Sky." The last two provide Ward's measured replies to Fletcher's apparent inquiry regarding the possibility of working with him on a bibliography of his work. The correspondence provides an intriguing look at the later years of Ward's career, hinting at his later preference for producing solo prints over books, the overlap between the two media, and the enormity of the task to catalogue the oeuvre. Ward refers specifically to Dan Burne Jones, who would publish a bibliography of Rockwell Kent and had at the time laid claim to cataloguing Ward's work, to the seeming detriment of Fletcher. All letters fine.

New Britain, CT: Robert E. Massmann, 1985. (33)pp. One of 300 copies. Frontispiece color photograph of a young deer. Warner, a neighbor, friend, and colleague of Mark Twain, here expounds upon the sport of hunting with keen brutality, signature wit, and understated conservationism. Bound in brown leather with illustration of frolicking stag to upper cover. Very fine, housed in pale yellow slipcover. (2 by 1 7/8; 49x46mm).

New Britain, CT: J. L. Kapica, 1964. 30pp. Frontispiece portrait of Kennedy. A collection of transcripts of eulogies for former President John F. Kennedy, delivered in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, November 24, 1963. The eulogies were given by Mike Mansfield, Earl Warren, and John McCormack. Fine in black gilt-stamped leather with marbled endpapers. A.e.g. (2 9/16 by 2; 66x50mm).

New Britain, CT: J. L. Kapica, 1964. 30pp. Frontispiece portrait of Kennedy. A collection of transcripts of eulogies for former President John F. Kennedy, delivered in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, November 24, 1963. The eulogies were given by Mike Mansfield, Earl Warren, and John McCormack. Some rubbing to covers, else near fine in black gilt-stamped leather. A.e.g. (2 9/16 by 2; 66x50mm).

Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1983. McCurdy, Michael. (64)pp. Signed by the printer, Miriam Irwin. Frontispiece portrait of Sherlock Holmes. What follows is a brief but no less scintillating Sherlockian mystery. Fine in gilt-stamped brown leatherette. This the later edition, of shorter stature and not blind-stamped. (15/16 by 3/4; 24x19mm).

Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1983. McCurdy, Michael. (64)pp. Signed by the printer, Miriam Irwin. Frontispiece portrait of Sherlock Holmes. What follows is a brief but no less scintillating Sherlockian mystery. Fine in gilt-stamped brown leatherette. This the later edition, of shorter stature and not blind-stamped. (15/16 by 3/4; 24x19mm).

NY: McLoughlin Bros, 1873. (12)pp. A chapbook of moral songs by Isaac Watts, illustrated with four color engravings. Part of a series of "Illuminated texts for Sunday school rewards" published by McLoughlin Brothers. Minor internal soiling, previous owner's stamp to inside rear wrapper, which has offset onto last page, small dampstain to spine of rear wrapper, else near fine in lavender printed wrappers.

Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1982. Higgins, Patrick H.. (64)pp. Signed by the printer, Miriam Irwin. An account of a mid-nineteenth century domestic architectural movement, illustrated with line drawings. Bound in gray cloth with titling and octagonal ornaments in white. Fine. (15/16 by 3/4; 24x19mm).

Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1975. 65pp. One of 1,500 copies. With the 1969 U.S. postage stamp honoring California's Bicentennial tipped-in as a frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous black & white reproductions of postage stamps. Extremely fine in gilt-stamped blue leather. A.e.g. (3 5/16 by 2 1/4; 84x58mm).

Monterey, CA: Hilleary & Petko, 1985. 10 pp. One of 200 copies. A brief history of the Monterey, California, monument to eighteenth century Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra. With an illustration of Serra tipped in as a frontispiece as well as the official logo of the Serra Bicentennial celebration, also tipped in. Very fine in decorated boards with cloth backing and title stamped on spine. (1 9/16 by 1 7/16; 40x37mm.).

Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1975. 65pp. One of 1,500 copies. With the 1969 U.S. postage stamp honoring California's Bicentennial tipped-in as a frontispiece. Illustrated with numerous black & white reproductions of postage stamps. Extremely fine in gilt-stamped blue leather. A.e.g. (3 5/16 by 2 1/4 in.; 84x58mm).

Evanston, IL: Press of Ward Schori, 1985. 42pp. A once-in-a-lifetime astrological celebration, given its due in miniature form. Fine in blue leather, with a gilt comet streaking upwards on the front cover. (2 7/16 by 1 15/16; 62x49mm).

Bradenton, FL: Opuscala Press, 1991. Octavo. xiii, (i), 143pp. A curated and careful selection of essays about miniature books, along with a bibliography of them compiled by Robert F. Hanson. In variant binding "D": black paper over boards with gilt titling. Fine.

Evanston, IL: Press of Ward Schori, 1990. (14), 13, (16)pp. A tribute to the Queen Mother, published on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday and illustrated with captioned photolithographs and a tipped-in commemorative postage stamp as frontispiece. Bound in maroon velvet over boards, stamped in gilt. Fine. (2 5/8 by 2 1/8; 66x54mm).

San Fernando, CA: Junípero Serra Press, 1991. 14pp. One of 200 copies. Frontispiece postage stamp advocating for freedom of the press. Bound in green leatherette over boards, gilt-stamped. Fine. A.e.g. (2 5/8 by 1 7/8; 67x47mm).