HOLE IN THE DONUT

Published by Midnight Paper Sales, N.P. (but Stockholm, WI), 2025

About this Item

9 x 11 inches. quarter yellow leather over illustrated paper-covered boards, cloth clamshell box with a paper spine label. wood-engraved frontispiece, 36 pages. One of 75 'possible' numbered copies, but the publisher states it is 'more like 55' on the colophon. Signed by Gaylord Schanilec on the colophon. Fine in fine clamshell box. From the prospectus: "When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862 he was ten years into a practice of recording the natural phenomena of his Concord home, a practice that culminated in a series of charts he reffered to as his 'Kalendar.' Three years ago I began doing the same here in the wilds of western Wisconsin, but instead of turning to books as the source of information regarding species identification, as was the case with Thoreau, I turned to an iPhone 13. In recent travels I've continued this practice. Hole in the Donut is the result of a residency in the Florida Everglades during the summer of 2023. On my first evening there my phone identified a bird in a tree as a penguin." The book contains seven french-folded sections wrapped in a 2-foot-long, 6-color wood engraving of the sun setting over Scrape 22 and various other engravings with poetry, biological conversation & a scurrilous species list all contained in a clamshell box measuring 10 x 12.5 inches. quarter yellow leather over illustrated paper-covered boards, cloth clamshell box with a paper spine label.

Seller Inventory # 141818

Bibliographic Details

• Title: HOLE IN THE DONUT
• Publisher: Midnight Paper Sales, N.P. (but Stockholm, WI)
• Publication Date: 2025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Midnight Paper Sales
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Press Books