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, 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.

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.

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.