Walter Hamady (73 results)

Published by The Perishable Press Limited, 1984
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.Structure, Verses, Agency Books
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Sterling condition softcover copy of an exhibition catalogue, with very lightly furled front panel tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. An anecdotally annotated check list with articles by and about the press for an exhibition at Galle…ry 210 / University of Missouri / St. Louis, October 3 through November 4, 1984. Printed, illustrated heavy card stock wraps, unpaginated, but about 120 pp. of annotated bibliographic entries and sumptuous reproductions of the fine book arts handled by The Perishable Press Limited. A formidably interesting Pre/Face ("A Foreword in Lieu of a Foreword") by Walter Hamady describing the magic of making a book.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

- Softcover
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 63 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran July 25 through August 23, 2014. Features an essay by gallerist John Corbett. A look at the work of artist and publisher Walter Hamady who was the founder of the Perishable Press. Includes numerous color illustrations. A very near fine copy… in wrappers.
Published by New Directions, New York, 1969
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Anthology Booksellers
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Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 8vo, 250 pp. "Compliments of the Publisher" slip laid in. Light superficial insect damage at spine and extremities, extremities lighlty bumped, page edges tanned and foxed, slight discoloration to endpapers, light foxing to a few pages. Jacket foxed and worn wit…h numerous small chips and tears.

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Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.ANARTIST
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Softcover, 64 pages; very good condition; light rubbing to covers; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Language: English
Published by University of Missouri/St. Louis, St. Louis, 1984
- Softcover
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.Entropy Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stiff printed wrappers, 4to., unpaginated (106 books listed + extensive index and bibliography), illustrated. An anecdotally annotated checklist of Hamady's work through 1983. Very mild edgewear and soiling to covers, a very good copy, in archival mylar.

Published by Granary Books, 1990
- Softcover
Seller: Granary Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Granary Books
Contact seller5-star seller6 1/2 x 11 in., 8 pp., wrappers. Letterpress-printed catalog with two loose color reproductions in tipped-in envelopes from an exhibition at Granary Books (Sept. 6Oct. 27, 1990). Includes an exhibition checklist and essays by Walter Hamady and Steven Clay. Designed and printed letterpress by Walter Tisdale at Tatlin Books. Folde…d and glued sheets. This is from an edition of 200 copies, of which approx. are 75 hors commerce and 125 are for sale. As new.
Published by Elvehjem Museum of Art,, 1983
- Softcover
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.

Language: English
Published by Perishable Press, USA, 1984
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Your Book Soon, Stroud, GLOS, United KingdomYour Book Soon
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Soft cover. Condition: Good-. 1st Edition. Bw illustrated exhibition catalogue . Covers a little grubby otherwise sound.

- Softcover
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Seller: Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, United KingdomMarcus Campbell Art Books
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First Edition. 25 x 20 cm. 63 pp. Coloured illustrations throughout. Wrappers. Fine copy.
Published by The Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, WI, 1984
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Passages Bookshop
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First printing. (121) pp., 4to. Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers. With preface, indexes (to titles, authors, illustrators, and binders), and thirty-two black-and-white plates. A touch of sunning to spine and light shelfwear, essentially as new. "An anecdotally annotated check list for an exhibition at Gallery 210 University… of Missouri / St. Louis - 3 October 1984 to 4 November 1984 entitled: Hamady's Perishable Press: A 20th Anniversary Sampling of Handcrafted Books." A detailed checklist of the first 106 publications of the press.
Published by Corbett Vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, 2011
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.Voyageur Book Shop
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Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 48pp. Slight water damage to the page bottoms, image quality unharmed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall V1.

Published by Children's Community School, Mt. Horeb, WI, 1979
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerbroadside, folded three times. folio. broadside, folded three times. A large broadside designed by Walter Hamady featuring marketing material for the Children's Community School. Illustrated with b&w images. Walter Hamady was the proprietor of the Perishable Press in Mt. Horeb, WI. Hamady, Walter (illustrator).
Published by The Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, WI, 1984
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Passages Bookshop
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First printing. (121) pp., 4to. Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers. With preface, indexes (to titles, authors, illustrators, and binders), and thirty-two black-and-white plates. As new, in original shrink-wrap. "An anecdotally annotated check list for an exhibition at Gallery 210 University of Missouri / St. Louis - 3 October… 1984 to 4 November 1984 entitled: Hamady's Perishable Press: A 20th Anniversary Sampling of Handcrafted Books." A detailed checklist of the first 106 publications of the press.
More imagesPublished by University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 1983
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaGotcha By The Books
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paperback. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of Artists Books, Elvehjem Museum of Art 6 May - 3 July 1983, being a representative selection of American book-arts in the early 1980's; preface by Walter Hamady; b&w photo illustrations throughout; mild knock to foot of text block with minor creases to corners of pages, o….w. Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed, and with one or two small stains. . unpaginated. 4to. Very Good in lightly rubbed wraps Very Good in lightly rubbed wraps. profusely illustrated (illustrator).
More imagesNew Directions 23: New Directions in Prose and Poetry 23 (First Edition)
J. Laughlin (editor); Walter Abish; Robert Bly; Alvaro de Campos; Marvin Cohen; Robert Duncan; Russell Edson; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Walter S. Hamady; Denise Levertov; James Purdy; Carl Rakosi; Yiannis Ritsos; Gary Snyder (contributors)
Published by New Directions, New York, 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($6.75) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Anthologies.
More imagesPublished by The Perishable Press Limited, Mount Horeb, WI, 1979
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Type Punch Matrix
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Fine. Limited ed. A "chap-pamphlet," from an edition of 225 copies. A single poem by Rothenberg, "from memory for Matthew Rothenberg's thirteenth birthday celebrated as a 'bar mitzvah event' one month after the date three decades three years past my own." From Walter Hamady's Wisconsin fine press. Wraps. 8vo. Beige wr…aps. Fine. SIGNED by Rothenberg at leaf following copyright page. Overall bright and clean. Good and sound. [8] pp., (two of which fold out, creating a triptych of panels containing a single poem). Signed.
More imagesPublished by The Perishable Press Limited, Mount Horeb, WI, 1979
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Fine. Limited ed. A "chap-pamphlet," from an edition of 225 copies. A single poem by Rothenberg, "from memory for Matthew Rothenberg's thirteenth birthday celebrated as a 'bar mitzvah event' one month after the date three decades three years past my own." From Walter Hamady's Wisconsin fine press. Wraps. 8vo. Beige wr…aps. Fine. SIGNED by Rothenberg at leaf following copyright page. Overall bright and clean. Good and sound. [8] pp., (two of which fold out, creating a triptych of panels containing a single poem). Signed.

Published by Granary Books, New York, 1990
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Exhibition catalog. Slim small quarto. Two folio leaves tipped-on to one another; through a combination of folds, making [10]pp. A bit of soil and foxing on the cover and one tiny abrasion, thus near fine. Illustrated with two color prints of Hamady's work in tipped-on pockets. With a postcard ad…vertising a 1991 show of Hamady's work at Artspace (at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center) laid in.

Published by Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, 2011
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First edition. Softcover. 48 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 29 through May 2, 2011. Features an essay by Robert Cozzolino. Includes color illustrations of works created by Hamady. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.

Published by The Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, 1984
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star seller4to, unpaginated; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original illustrated printed wrappers. Very good.
Published by Albondocani Press, 1968
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Boojum and Snark Books, Kanab, UT, U.S.A.Boojum and Snark Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Sewn orange wraps, printed/illustrated front cover, 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches, unpaginated (4 pages). This copy SIGNED on the inside (recto) of the rear cover by Walter Hamady. Fine. (1722RO090). Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by The Perishable Press Limited, No Place, 1979
- Softcover
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.Entropy Books
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Sea Green wrappers, Matching printed Roma DW, 12mo., 50 pages, with several fold-out leaves. One of 200 copies printed from Spectrum types on Roma, Eltham, Canterbury, Hayle & Tovil handmade papers. Signed by the printer Walter Hamady. A fine copy. Jack Beal (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Perishable Press, Mount Horeb, Wisc, 1984
- First Edition
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First edition, 4to, unpaginated; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original illustrated printed wrappers; fine. Standard work on the Perishable Press. From the library of Kim Merker.
Language: English
Published by Wisconsin 1984. ca 65 unpag. Bl. OKart 4°., 1984
Seller: Antiquariat im Lenninger Tal, Lenningen, GermanyAntiquariat im Lenninger Tal
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Condition: Gut. Reich bebilderter Katalog der Produktion der Hamady Press. Verzeichnet 106 Bücher der Presse. *Gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510.
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Published by Perishable Press, 1972
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Limited. Brown quarter-morocco over marbled boards, title stamped in black on spine. Number 96 of 120 copies on Shadwell paper. Signed by J.V. Cunningham on leaf following title page. Walter Hamady (1940-2019) was an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is esp…ecially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking. In the mid-1960s, he founded The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill, and soon after joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for more than thirty years. Colophon states that the paper created for this book included bedsheets from the poet himself.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by The Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, WI, 1991
- Softcover
- Signed
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.Panoply Books
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Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Pale gray-blue wraps are mostly clean, with illustration in white ink and red pencil. Corners are a little bumped. See photos. Spine is bright with firm ends. Binding is secure. Handmade paper end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear. Ephemera, a letter confirm…ing the purchase order for this book, is present. Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges.** PS2024.0710** Unpaginated. 5 3/8 x 8 inches** A personal and intimate example of the art and craft which were the output of The Perishable Press under the direction of Walter Hamady (1940-2019). This slim work, two signatures enclosed in wraps of handmade paper, is in essence a valentine to Hamady's wife, here referred to as the Jungle Princess.** Printed on papers of several colors, in a coordinating palette of inks. Fine line decorations illustrate the pages.** The colophon page tells the whole story of this publication.** Edition of 125 copies, 50 of which were available for sale. This is #66, as per the label stapled in at the back cover, signed by the author.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010016"**. Micah Hamady (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Published by Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press Limited, [1974?]., 1974
- Manuscript
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Condition: Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Single Page, Very Good with creasing. Letterpress on fine paper. Illustration.

Published by Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1979
- Hardcover
- Manuscript
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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Condition: Good. Invoice from Hamady with embossed letterhead by Reynolds Stone and letter from Holly regarding the 119th book of the press.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 pape…rmaking 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.
Published by University of Missouri/ St Louis, St. Louis, 1984
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Good Old Books, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.Good Old Books
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Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. Unpaged, illustrated with Hamady's Perishable Press: A twentieth anniversary sampling of hand crafted books. Light dent to cover.

Published by Perishable Press, Mount Horeb WI, 1981
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new copy, with original invoice on Perishable Press letterhead laid-in.