THE STAR THROWER

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Fiona Macgregor designed dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is a touch faded to the spine. Not price-clipped (£5.95 net to the lower front flap).

A collection of essays, stories and poems, selected by the author himself, more than half of which are published in book form for the first time. The volume spans Eiseley's writing career, from his early poems (1930-1942), through 'The Immense Journey' (1957), to his last essays, showing him at his best, as naturalist, poet, scientist, humanist and auto-biographer. "This book will be read and cherished in the year 2001. It will go to the Moon and Mars with future generations. Loren Eiseley's work changed my life thirty years ago" - Ray Bradbury.