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Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. Beal, Jack. Small octavo. 39pp. One of 200 copies. Symbolic frontispiece, which is explained at the colophon. Eiseley's essays, entitled "The Brown Wasps," "Big Eyes and Little Eyes," and "Endure the Night", explore the complications of self-reflection, with semi-fictional digressions evocative of feeling more than fact. Bound in marbled paper boards. Minor rubbing to corners, else near fine.

Mount Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press Limited, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Cockerell marbled paper-covered boards, small 8vo., (i), 39, (1) pages, frontispiece drawing by Jack Beal. Of 256 copies, this is one of 56 copies printed on Shadwell handmade paper by Walter Hamady at his Perishable Press from Palatino type in browns, red, purples and black. This copy is on grey Shadwell. Bound by Douglas Cockerell & Sons in their marbled paper appropriate to the color of the text paper. One of Hamady's favorites. A fine copy in archival mylar.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: The Perishable Press Limited , 1969. One of 56 copies on Shadwell paper, hand-made by the printer, in this copy the color is pale gray. Frontispiece drawing by Jack Beal. Fine, as Issued, and one of Eiseley's scarcest books.. Limited Edition. Marbled Boards. Fine, as Issued/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. First edition. Limited to 200 copies printed, of which this copy is one of 144 printed on Charter Oak. Hamady 22. Selected as one of the A.I.G.A.'s Fifty Best Books of the Year. A very fine copy of Eiseley's rarest and most beautiful book. 8vo, illustrated by Jack Beal, original marbled boards. A very fine copy of Eiseley's rarest and most beautiful book.

EB: Perishable Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1969. Hardcover. A book that looks almost new; 39 pages; Beautiful paper, printing - a wonderful book, gift quality .

Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press Limited, 1969. First edition. One of 56 copies printed on the press' own handmade Shadwell paper, beige in this instance, out of a total edition of 200 copies. Hamady 22. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Walter Hamady, the printer, to his in-laws: "for mother & father Laird and no. 1 son Tom on this sunny and cold fifth of January 1970 from Walter & Mary.. A fine copy of one of Eiseley's scarcest books. Small 8vo, frontispiece by Jack Beal, original marbled boards. A fine copy of one of Eiseley's scarcest books.

Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, Ltd, 1969. Edition limited to 256 copies, this being one of 56 copies on Shadwell paper handmade by the printer; 8vo, pp. [8], 39, [3]; frontispiece by Jack Beal, handset Palatino type; marbled paper boards by Douglas Cockerell & Son; fine. Essays previously published in Gentry and Atlantic Monthly. Two Decades, 22: "The book is a favorite because of occasion, the people involved (writer, artist, binder), the text, the paper, the binding. The author and artist were in Madison the same time, the former for the entire semester during which time there were many wonderful, crazy, silly, profound & hilarious times shared. It was a very rich and warm time for me."

Perishable Press. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1969. Hardcover. 39 pages; A beautiful, collectible book, bound in three different marbled papers by Douglas Cockerell and Son, illustrated by Jack Beal. Only 200 copies on Charter Oak Paper; 56 copies on Shadwell. This copy is Shadwell, a paper handmade by the printer; the type is handset Palatino .

Mount Horeb: The Perishable Press Limited, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Jack Beal. Bound by Douglas Cockerell and Son using three different marbled papers. Tiny bump to one corner, still easily fine in marbled papercovered boards. Colophon states that there were 200 copies on Charter Oak paper, and fifty-six copies on Shadwell, although a laid in printed statement from the publisher asserts that there were only 185 copies on Charter Oak. This appears to be one of the fifty-six on Shadwell. One of the AIGA's 50 best designed books of the year. Easily Eiseley's scarcest book.