Here’s another of Anton Romatka’s curious publications. This one is A History of Versification, 16 pages of a meticulously lettered, rather eccentrically written, history of poetry. I’ll give you the front cover, first page, and back cover, the last of these an ad for Romatka’s other publications. The “Merit” at the top of the cover […]

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Instrumentarium is now available from Black Scat Books! This delightful volume collects the drawings of imaginary musical instruments I contributed monthly to Le Scat Noir, plus many previously unpublished. Among the 180 selected here are such inventions as the Painpipes, the Sprinkler Trombone, the Flugelflute, and the Cavalry Harmonium. As our culture grows ever more […]

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And here follow the last four pages of Calligraphs, a small hand-lettered poetry magazine published by Anton Romatka in 1935. The last two pages advertise Romatka’s services as publisher, editor, teacher, and calligrapher. Googling reveals little about Max Berman or Gussie Perlman, but turned up the interesting fact that Harvey W. Flink contributed his poems […]

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