Books @ Bromer

Dear friends, Every now and then I reminisce about the books and people David and I met on our 50-year odyssey as Bromer Booksellers. Below is the story of the remotest place we ever visited an...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2021/03/easter-island-and-its-books.html

Left: Cristina Kahlo, Miguel Covarrubias, Frida Kahlo, and Rosa Covarrubias; Right: Covarrubias and Nickolas Murray On June 19th, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts concluded its exhibit “...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2019/06/covarrubias-kahlo-and-popular-pride.html

From 1941 to 1943, Lorain Roswell Snyder, Seaman First Class, traveled throughout the Pacific, winding his way north from the Galapagos Islands, towards the South Pacific, and up to Alaska ab...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2019/06/some-safe-harbor-wwii-logbooks-from.html

Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Poems from the Ranges. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929. In 1920, the Book Club of California, then still a nascent entity, having published its first letter...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-landscape-of-binding-caro-weir-elys.html

To mark its fiftieth year as a leading specialist in rare and beautiful books, Bromer Booksellers is pleased to announce the launch of Bromer Gallery, which will open its first exhibition on ...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/09/announcing-bromer-gallery.html

If the modern typographic revolution can be said to have been born in London, the it ought to also be said that it came of age in Germany. The turn of the twentieth century saw the arrival of E...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/08/simons-dwiggins-and-modern-letter.html

In speaking of Geoffroy Tory, one most often does so in reference to his Champfleury, which established a distinctly French artistic style while it simultaneously declaimed the use and order of ...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/08/geoffroy-tory-common-language.html

Fröbel-Album. Emmy Boldt (cover title) and Weaving (cover title) In the early nineteenth century, Friedrich Fröbel proposed the radical notion that education, and early education in p...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/07/unfolding-early-education-and-practice.html

Polyorama Panoptique. (c. 1830). The Polyorama Panoptique is not so much an optical toy as an illusory experience. With the wooden box in one hand and the wooden lens in the other, the vie...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-world-on-display.html

Denshin, Alexei. Vyatskaya glinyanaya igrushka v risunkakh: raskraska risunkov ruchnaya, yachnymi kraskami, tochno skopirovannymi s podlinnikov. Moscow, 1917. Folk art, and artistic styl...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/06/tradition-by-hand-book-of-russian-folk.html

Typically, references to “ghost” editions indicate the absence of a physical book. The volume appears in letters, auction catalogs, library checklists, or the footnotes of other works, b...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/05/finding-something-never-lost-ghost.html

Last week, Anne Bromer gave a thorough and informative lecture before the Ticknor Society on the twentieth-century resurgence of the art of jeweled bookbinding and the twisted saga of The Gre...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-great-omar-and-modern-renaissance.html

Clockwise from top left: Traditional Saxon garb, traveling outfit, woman's thick cape, Lutheran priest's outfit, gardener's hat and gloves, woman's hood, apron, and fan, and (center) the Holy ...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/04/androgynous-overlays-celebrate-or.html

Church Windows: A Series of Designs, Original or Selected from Ancient Examples By Sebastian Evans. Birmingham, England, Chance Brothers Co., 1862. The great period of English stained g...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-sample-of-british-revival-of-stained.html

Das Buch vom Zirkus, by Hans-Friedrich Geist. Halle, 1930. One of the greatest influences of the Bauhaus artists extended not from their own designs, but through the ambitions of their st...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2018/04/children-take-on-bauhaus.html

Bromer Booksellers and Heavenly Monkey are pleased to announce the publication of XI LXIVMOS: Memoirs of a Bibliomidget, a descriptive bibliography of the eleven miniature books published ...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2016/03/announcing-new-miniature-publication.html

Mary Flannery, David and Anne Bromer, and Kit Jenkins As part of their ongoing philanthropic mission relating to art and the printed word, Anne and David Bromer have donated a working letter...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2015/11/bromer-donation-makes-big-impression.html

Printing in the Footsteps of Giants by Philip C. Salmon Last October, I traveled to Rochester, New York, for the official unveiling of the newly-restored Kelmscott-Goudy Albion printing...

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Bromer Booksellers will be exhibiting in the vendor showcase at the Library History Seminar XIII , taking place this year on August 1st at Simmons College in Boston. Registration is required...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2015/07/visit-us-at-library-history-seminar.html

We have been hard at work collaborating with the fine folks at Bibliopolis to upgrade our website, bromer.com . The new site launched today for your book-viewing pleasure and has a responsiv...

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Jack Whirler's Alphabet; or, The St. Paul's Primer . Adorned with Cuts by the Newberys, is a celebration of the engaging eighteenth-century children's books produced by three generations of t...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2014/11/jack-whirlers-alphabet.html

Bromer Booksellers cordially invites you to our annual reception on the eve of the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair , Thursday, November 13th from noon to 5pm. Please join us on the s...

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Via After a short hiatus, we're back on the occasion of typographical scholar Beatrice Warde's birthday. Born on September 20th, 1900, Warde lived during a renaissance in American and Briti...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2014/09/celebrating-beatrice-warde.html

The Miniature Book Society is an organization interested in all aspects of miniature books, or books measuring three inches or less, including the design, production, and distribution of these t...

https://bromerbooksellers.blogspot.com/2014/07/miniature-book-society-conclave-in.html

Welcome to our 40th e-catalogue , comprised of a varied, interesting selection of recent acquisitions priced under $2,000. When putting this selection together, we aimed to include books that...

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