The Brown Wasps; A Collection of Three Essays in Autobiography by Eiseley, Loren - 1969

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, Wisc.: The Perishable Press Limited, 1969. First Edition . Limited Edition Fine in marbled paper covered boards with the text block printed on handmade, watermarked, Charter Oak, deckled paper. An 8vo measuring 8 3/8 by 5 1/4 inches containing 39 numbered pages followed by a page explaining the text and three blank pages. There are gift inscriptions on the first and second blank free end pages. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 256 limited edition copies printed. An extremely uncommon item by Eiseley. It is a collection of three essays by the author. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Jack Beal.

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.

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."

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.

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This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "In this book I have gathered together a number of lectures, sermons and addresses given during the thirteen and a half years in which I was Archbishop of York, and during my opening months as Archbishop of Canterbury...." - Preface from Convictions

This book is in good condition. There is significant wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover. The corners are worn. The previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front cover. The pages are tanned but clear of any marking."Why a new edition of the documents of Vatican II? For eighteen years I have been involved in the translation and publication of official Church documents, including those of Vatican II and its aftermath, and I have long felt that there is need for a volume containing not only the sixteen Council documents, but also as useful a selection as possible of the relevant subsequent official documents, those which dot the i's and cross the t's, as it were, of the sixteen...." - Introduction from Vatican Council II The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents

Nicolas -Hays Inc, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Schaup, Susanne : Sophia: Aspects of the Divine Feminine Past & Present. York Beach (ME) : Nicolas -Hays Inc, 1997. First edition. Translated from the German by the author. Size is demy octavo (8vo), 8.25"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's glossy color wrappers glued to text block, reprod of Andy Warhol's detail take on Botticelli's Venus to front. xxvi pp prelim material, 235 numbered pp, three unnumbered following. Notes, bibliography, index. Condition notes: Not ex library. No notes or highlighting. Pages clean and binding tight/not creased. Light wear to cover. An wide-ranging study of the ancient notion of sophia - no mention of Hagia Sophia, but you will find George MacDonald, Pachamama, and Jakob Boehme. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with pencil marking to front fly, light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends, mild soiling to front cover else still bright, intact and whole. JEX 1/21

Binding is square, tight and clean save for a stray mark on reverse. Red top stain. Internals clean except for faint marginal spotting/staining on pp.136-37. Old Weiser booklabel on front pastedown. Unclipped wrapper has minor wrinkling/ small creases (it is a very thin gold foil paper jacket) plus some edgewear; else Fine. Fifty-seven illustrations on b/w plates interspersed throughout text; again, as mentioned elsewhere on this space; images perhaps those not commonly seen re-printed ad nauseum.
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First Edition Thus; this volume re-issues two of Steiner's works: The Way of Initiation and Initiation and Its Results. Some shelfwear and soiling to edges, but the binding is generally clean & straight; internals are also in good order.
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This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards and there is no wear on the edges of the cover boards.There is some bumping on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page. The pages are white, crisp and claen of any markings. "William Thomson, famous nineteenth century missionary, traveler, and author, described twenty-five years of surface study of Palestine as it relates to the Bible in his two-volume work, The Land and the Book. When he comes to describe Jerusalem he makes this remarkable statement; Do not set out...resolved to make discoveries. There is not a foot of ground that has not been already scrutinized by a thousand eyes as keen as yours, and the old adage, "If new not true," may be applied to Jerusalem and her monuments with more propriety than to any other place on earth...." - Introduction from Poet and Peasant: A… Read More

Paraclete Press. Hardcover. 1557256349 Excellent, unmarked copy Paraclete Press. New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp pages w/no markings! You will be pleased. Excellent book

London: Everett & Co, 1908. Paperback in good condition; Head and foot of spine very worn.. 240 pages.