Illustrated Books from Bromer Booksellers

(NY, 1924. Octavo. (11)pp. Four color linocut plates, one of which serves as titling. Four pages of text instruct the nascent illustrator-printer in how to "design, cut and print linoleum blocks," from preparation to particular substrates. A rear folio, not fully opened, contains seven loose exemplar plates. Bound in marbled paper-covered boards with block-printed title to upper cover. Some… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Buren: Frits Knuf, 1988. Frigge, Karli. Oblong quarto. (11)pp., (12)ff. One of 99 copies, signed by the artist. This copy with a second inscription, appearing at the final page of the English foreword: "Sorry, the label is not gold stamped! / Karli." Illustrated with twelve examples of Frigge's marbled papers which are evocative of landscapes. Bound in vellum-backed marbled… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1939. Thurber, James. Oblong small quarto. First edition. Inscribed by Thurber at the front flyleaf. When Thurber published the book in 1939, just a few months after the beginning of World War II, all hopes that civilization might break the cycle of war had been dashed. Illustrated with Thurber's simple and expressive cartoons, the story… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Japan, 1930. Three volumes. (7); (5); (5)ff. Two volumes, of smaller stature, show various potted flowers, and the third offers various playful depictions of bicycles and their riders. All printed on paper that has been lacquered to preserve the brightly colored images. All bound in full decorative cloth over boards. Fine. (Smaller volumes measure 9/16 by 7/16 in.; 16x13mm.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Ernest Nister, 1895. Square octavo. (12)pp. Four chromolithographed volvelles encourage the young reader to align the pictures with their appropriate letters. The first apparatus, for example, situates a drum with "D," a train engine with "E," and sacks of flour with "F." Accompanying these are verses, the first of which matches the mnemonic movables. This work is known… Saber más sobre este artículo

Santa Monica: Graphic Communications Consultants, 1970. Octavo. (28)pp. Of considerable visual impact photographically and typographically, the calendar begins in July 1970 and ends with June 1971. Each month organizes its days according to significant events in feminist history, added to which are numerous portraits of relevant figures emblematic of the movement, even anachronistically (Queen Elizabeth I, for example). The… Saber más sobre este artículo

Moscow: Detizdat, 1938. Konashevich, Vladimir. (10)pp. A miniature, lyrical children's book, with color lithographs illustrating scenes of a child's fond relationship with a toy horse. Kvitko was a Ukranian-born Yiddish-language poet and author; his literary and ethnic status made him a target of the Stalinist government, and he was executed in 1952 during what has now become known as… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, New York: The Thistle Press, 1955. Eichenberg, Fritz. Two folio-sized portfolios. (8); (8)ff. A total of sixteen prints each measuring 12 1/2 by 17 inches. Known to book collectors as a master wood engraver, Eichenberg also executed a series of drawings that appeared in Dorothy Day's "The Catholic Worker" newspaper, a lay publication concerned with the intersection… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., 2018. Kennedy, Jr., Amos Paul. Letterpress poster, from Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s series honoring Rosa Parks. Signed by the artist. Each installment in this series highlights Parks's determination, humanity, and honesty, upholding her persistent activism and uplifting her famous, yet sanitized, moment of refusal to bow to segregation. The masterful technique of layering colorful wood… Saber más sobre este artículo

(Frankfurt am Main): Edition Kölling, 1968. Schmolck, H. C.. Calendar comprising 24ff. prints, plus an introduction written by the artist, Hans Christoph Schmolck, and an illustrated cover page. One of 200 copies signed by the artist, with a hand-written statement of limitation; the prints are also signed and numbered by Schmolck. Each month is illustrated with two pages of… Saber más sobre este artículo

San Francisco: Ministry of Information, Black Panther Party, 1970. Douglas, Emory. Twelve 16mo. Christmas cards, each (4)pp. from single sheet. All feature a seasonal festive border, within which are bold statements calling for protest, freedom, solidarity, and revolutionary action. Some show the signature motif of a pig, standing for the neoliberal police state; others show photoreproduced portraits of Black… Saber más sobre este artículo