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A TESTAMENT TO THE WILDERNESS - ONE OF THIRTY DELUXE HAND PRINTED AND BOUND COPIES
(MEIER, CARL ALFRED). Meier, C. A., Mokusen Miyuki, Joseph L. Henderson, Laurens van der Post, Ian Player, M. Vera Buhrmann, Rix Weaver, Jane Hollister Wheelwright, Sam Francis & Robert Hinshaw. Zug, SWITZERLAND & Santa Monica, CA: Daimon Verlag & The Lapis Press, 1985. First Edition 1/30 Deluxe. 8vo. Cloth with Pastedowns. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 144pp, no illustrations. Text in English. This beautiful book of essays in honor of the noted Swiss Jungian psychiatrist and psychotherapist C.M. Meier's eightieth birthday was conceived by a planning committee consisting of Joan Meier, Lela Fischli, Sam Francis, and Robert Hinshaw. It contains Meier's 1983 paper "Wilderness and the Search for the Soul of Modern Man", plus nine essays in response to it appearing here for the first time. The type was composed in Monotype Janson by Patrick Reaugh, with the letterpress printing by Jamie Robles at Sam Francis' Lapis Press in Santa Monica, and the hand binding by Bruce Schnabel. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1985 deluxe first edition limited to thirty copies. 3-85630-502-5 Inventory Number: 017590