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Anne Bromer is the founder and co-owner (with her husband) of Bromer Booksellers Inc. This leading antiquarian bookshop was founded over 40 years ago and specializes in the art of the book, highspots of first edition literature, early children’s books, and miniature books. Bromer authored Strings Attached, a biography of Dorothy Abbe, the printer and muse of William Addison Dwiggins, and co-authored with Julian Edison Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures. Miniature Books was published in conjunction with last summer’s exhibition at the Boston Public Library of miniature books, which Bromer curated. The book also won first place as the best designed gift (coffee table) book at the 2008 NY Book Show.

Anne and David Bromer established an endowed fund at the Boston Public Library in 2006 to inform the public of the hidden treasures of the BPL. Bromer is a former member of the Board of Directors and a current Advisory Board member of Women’s Lunch Place in the Back Bay, a daytime refuge for poor and homeless women. On March 29, 2008 she gave this acceptance speech when she received the Achievement Award as part of the Alumni Day festivities at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bromer Booksellers

Ann and David Bromer's Antiquarian Bookshop

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