Bromer Booksellers

Information may not be reliable

» Fore-Edge Paintings
Owned and operated by Anne and David Bromer, who have been in the business of fine books for nearly half a century, Bromer Booksellers specializes in rare and beautiful books.
Search Our Inventory:

We invite our customers and colleagues to a wine and cheese reception at our shop on Thursday, November 11, from 2-5pm, in preparation for the start of the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair on Friday. There will be a sale of selected books at 50% discount all weekend. For more details about the book fair, see our News & Events page. We hope to see you there!

Anne Bromer will be delivering the Annual Thomson Endowed Lecture at the Boston Athenaeum on December 9, 2010 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. She will be discussing her book, Miniature Books: Four Thousand Years of Tiny Treasures and answering questions about miniature books as objects of interest for collectors and fascination for all. To see more information about this lecture, visit the Boston Athenaeum's website.

View an interview of Anne and David Bromer, filmed at the New York Book Fair in 2007, on the ILAB website here. The Bromers discuss how they got into bookselling, their role models, day-to-day operations of the business, and their current projects, including Anne's book on miniature books and David's work on his bibliography of Aldous Huxley.

"Why Miniature Books?", the featured article in the September issue of Southeastern Antiquing and Collecting Magazine was written by Anne Bromer. You can view an online version of the article here.

To view descriptions of the individual books, click one of the links below:
» Devocion a los Santos Quatro Evangelios
» Paul et Virginie
» The Ministration of Publick Baptism of Infants
» Inauguration Speech of President Roosevelt 1933
» Highlights in the History of American Whaling

Our first YouTube video, below, features four sets of Moby Dick China, designed by Rockwell Kent. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here to view future videos produced at Bromer Booksellers.

Check out the AbeBooks Reading Copy Book Blog to see their feature on two of our collections of china designed by Rockwell Kent.

View photos from the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, held April 9-11, 2010:

A Podcast of Anne Bromer's speech at the 2008 Simmons College GSLIS Alumni Day, during which she received an Alumni/ae Achievement Award, is now available for listening or to download here.

Our catalogue, All Our Yesterdays, was chosen as the Pick of the Week by Ibookcollector in February 2010.

View pictures from the California International Antiquarian Book Fair, held in Los Angeles, February 12-14, 2010:

Anne Bromer's "gloriously illustrated" book, Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures, was included with our miniature Emancipation Proclamation in the article "Put it in a Sock: Plenty of ways to stuff a stocking" by Patricia Marx, published in The New Yorker on December 14, 2009.