Search Results: Titles starting with H from Bromer Booksellers

San Francisco, CA: UFO Posters, 1967. Dulley, John. Four-color offset lithograph poster, incorporating figures stylized after the Kama Sutra and an early modern engraving partitioned as letters. The engraving uses, by rearrangement, what appears to be the printer's mark of Sigismund Feyerabend, with the motto: "Si cupis ut celebri stet tua fama loco, pervigiles habeas oculos animumque sagacem." UFO Gallery, located at 1608 Haight Street, was a regular and central venue for grassroots and countercultural art shows and performances. Slight toning to edges, else near fine. (22 3/8 by 16 3/8 in.).

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).

Tarzana, CA: Barbara J. Raheb, 1980. Raheb, Barbara J.. (32)pp. Though not noted in the book, this is one of 300 copies. A miniature facsimile of an 1890 almanac, produced by E. T. Hazeltine of Warren, PA, advertising Piso's medicines for consumption, croup, catarrh, and other ailments. Near fine in gilt-stamped brown cloth. (Bradbury, p. 205). (15/16 by 3/4; 24x19mm).

Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, 1980. Raheb, Barbara J.. 24pp. One of 249 copies, printed by the Schori Press, bound by Bela Blau, and illustrated by Barbara Raheb. Designed by Norman Forgue, the Black Cat Press's proprietor. Mild exterior rubbing else near fine in cream pyroxylin with a gilt teddy bear on the front cover. The smallest Black Cat edition. (Bradbury, p. 23). (3/4 by 5/8; 20x17mm).

Frankfort, KY: Whippoorwill Press, 1982. (v), 14pp. One of 100 copies. Frontispiece portrait of Beethoven. A printing of Beethoven's 1802 letter to his brothers, Karl and Johann, in which he attempted to communicate his feelings of rage, grief, and despair at the onset of his hearing loss. Beethoven was twenty-eight years old at the time. He never posted the letter, and it was not found until after his death in 1827. Bound in full brown paper with paper label. Fine. (2 7/16 by 1 15/16; 61x50mm).

NY: Sociedade de Tratadas Americana, 1870. 24mo. 63pp. Engraved frontispiece and two further engravings in the text, all showing the white Henriquinho, born in Dinapore, India, in the company of non-white caretakers, who nurture him in his orphanhood. The tale and its imagery provide a rare window into the Portuguese juvenalia representing, and justifying, the colonial effort. Printed in Portuguese, likely for the diaspora in the United States, but with "Port. Little Henry." on frontispiece recto, presumably to aid the bookseller categorize the book. A rare American Tract Society translation known in only two institutional holdings. Bound in publisher's red cloth over boards, blind-tooled and with gilt spine titling. Binding shows staining, bumps, and overall rubbing, but interior quite crisp and neat. Very good overall.

Winterport, ME: Borrower's Press, 1980. Conneen, Jane. 80pp. One of 350 copies signed by Jane Bernier. With hand-colored illustrations by Jane Conneen. Fine in gilt-decorated black leather. (Bradbury, p. 33). (7/8 by 5/8; 22x16mm).

Manteno, IL: Bronte Press, 1991. Wilkey, Elmira Smith. (32)pp. One of 70 copies, signed by editor and illustrator Elmira Smith Wilkey. Full-page handcolored illustrations throughout vibrantly illuminate the fantasy of the fable. Errata slip bound in. Fine in blue paper over boards with paper label and ribbon. (2 1/8 by 2 7/8; 55x72mm).

(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).