Search Results: Authors starting with P from Bromer Booksellers

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.

San Antonio, TX, 1985. (20)pp. accordionfold. An ode to the ubiquitous baseball snack. Held in matchbox with Cracker Jack labels to upper and lower panels. Trace rubbing to box, else near fine. (2 1/8 by 1 1/2; 55x39mm).

Bosham, UK: Circle Press, 2013. King, Ronald. Square small quarto. 7 unbound triptych sheets. One of thirty copies, signed by Richard Price and Ronald 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 succumbed to the catastrophes of climate change: the armadillo, the emperor butterfly, the chimpanzee, the dodo, the elephant, the fox, and the goose. That the alphabetical bestiary format remains unfinished implies the continuing urgency of the matter. Sheets housed loose in embossed paper wrappers, held in chemise and slipcase. Fine.

Lyon: A. Drioux, 1912. Two octavo vols. 170pp., paginated continuously. Illustrations throughout diagram various acts of sleights of hand and visual illusion; these accompany portraits and biographies of some of the leading magicians of the era, each of whom made famous a particular trick during their tours. Prestidigitative luminaries include Ottokar Fischer, Adolphe Blind, Arthur Margery, and Angelo Lewis. First volume in plausibly its original binding of half pebbled green morocco with gilt spine-title and marbled edges. Second volume in a later binding of full green cloth over boards, spine-title in gilt. Both volumes show external rubbing and minor bumps to corners, boards of first volume slightly splayed, else near fine and quite rare.

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 printing owes its lineage to the parallel history of experiments in depth perception, and its incorporation into print culture begins with the stereoscope. But here the specific technique of "anaglyphic" printing arrived in the late 19th century, based on earlier principles but adding to the equation manipulations of light and color. Shortly thereafter, anaglyphic films entered the market. By the time of this compendium's publication, the technological procedure had become more widely diffuse, but nevertheless retained its novelty value (as it still does today, in the grandeur of IMAX cinema). The timing, too, deserves further… Read More