Depression Dog. (Chapter Four & Chapter Ten from the as yet unpublished novel, The Bitter Half.) First edition.

4to 26 x 18.5 cm (10¼ x 7¼") pictorial tan cloth. No. 36 of 109 copies. 48 page surfaces (31 printed). Ten images by four illustrators printed in different sizes, some repeated from eleven point dies made in Wisconsin. Handset type in five faces. Printed on/into five different mould-made papers, four German, one French, in several colors. Press numbered. Cased by Scott Kellar in Chicago. Printed cloth over thin museum board. Illustrations by Jim Lee, Henrik Drescher, Peter Sis, & David McLimans. Colophon: "Depression Dog is the 128th thin volume from The Perishable Press Limited the eleventh collaboration of author and printer. Ten here in the countryside and one at the once-great university via a seminar which produced READING in 1992. Makeshift it to say that the author's 'segmented loopin' shown in that book became the aegis-engine and raison d'etre of this one."Inadvertently, the project went fallow while the publisher luxuriously read books all day, every day, for the first six months of 2002, then shamelessly segued to a mad assemblaging of objets trouves for the next five! We finish in time for the author's arrival on Thursday the 93rd day of this year."Toby Olson is an American writer based in Pennsylvania. He co-founded and taught at the Aspen Writers' Workshop, and at Long Island University and The New School For Social Research, and since 1975 Temple University.The 128th book of the Perishable Press. Text from an unfinished novel by Toby Olson. Selected as one of "Fifty Books of the Year" 2003 AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Art, New York City).Walter Hamady (born 1940) is an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking exemplified in the productions of The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill, founded by Hamady in the mid-1960s. In 1966 Hamady joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he would teach papermaking, letterpress printing, and bookbinding for more than three decades.Walter Hamady (born 1940) is an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking exemplified in the productions of The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill, founded by Hamady in the mid-1960s. In 1966 Hamady joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he would teach papermaking, letterpress printing, and bookbinding for more than three decades.Walter Hamady (born 1940) is an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking exemplified in the productions of The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill, founded by Hamady in the mid-1960s. In 1966 Hamady joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he would teach papermaking, letterpress printing, and bookbinding for more than three decades.…