Facing Ka'ena Point: On Turning 80

Np: Privately Printed, 2021. 100 copies signed and numbered, with an additional 26 signed and lettered copies reserved for the author. 8vo. Tipped-in frontispiece after photograph by Theroux, title-page, initial line and colophon printed in color. 19, [1] pp. Sewn stiff wrappers, plain dust-jacket with printed title label. A letterpress printed, signed and limited edition of Paul Theroux's autobiographical essay, in the tradition of Henry Miller's On Turning Eighty and V.S. Pritchett's The Turn of the Years. Written on the North Shore of Oahu with Ka'ena Point in the distance, Theroux's essay explores "the foliage of my life that I have not elaborated in my books."One of 100 copies, each numbered and signed by Theroux. An additional 26 lettered copies were produced for the author's use. Designed, letterpress printed and bound by Jesse Marsolais at The Marsolais Press in Harwich, Massachusetts, in July 2021.