Perishable Press Walter Hamady (15 results)

Condition: Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Single Page, Very Good with creasing. Letterpress on fine paper. Illustration.

Original wrappers. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Sewn brown wrappers with blind-embossed jacket. One of 167 copies printed, signed by Hamady. Very slight rubbing to corners. Hamady 26.

Perishable Press (illustrator). 8vo. Quarter purple calfskin titled in blind with brown cloth-covered boards. (i), 23, (1) pages. One of 200 limited copies on Medway handmade paper. Line-cut of a self-portrait photograph by the author. Palatino type on Barcham Green Medway handmade paper. Bound by Elizabeth Kner. Spine faded, else a fine copy. Quarter purple calfskin titled in blind with brown cloth-covered boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter purple calfskin titled in blind with brown cloth-covered boards, small square 8vo., (i), 23, (1) pages, line-cut of a self-portrait photograph by the author. One of 200 copies printed by Walter Hamady at his Perishable Press from Palatino type on Barcham Green Medway handmade paper. Bound by Elizabeth Kner. Warm presentation by Hamady. One of Hamady's favorites. Trace of rubbing to the cloth edges, else a fine copy in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Handset in Palatino with display in Michelangelo. One of exactly 200 copies printed in black (display in red and brown) on Medway paper. Quarter bound in purple leather with fawn cloth-covered boards, blind-blocked on the spine. Bookplate. A near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Number 108 of 200 copies of which 170 were for sale. The founder of this press and author of this book, Walter Hamady (1940 - 2019) was an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking. In the mid-1960s, he founded The Perishable Press and the Shadwell Papermill, and soon after joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for more than thirty years. Noted for its fine handmade paper, distinguished typography and unique colophons, Hamady's Perishable Press challenged traditional notions of the book. Over the years, his press produced a body of work highly sought after by collectors -- books prized for their meticulous and complex physical structures, quirkiness and inventive collaborations between typesetter, binder and illustrator. [Wikipedia] Many Perishable Press books are notable for their innovative use of paper - in addition to the Perishable Press, Hamady also operated the Shadwell Paper Mill - and for Hamady's rambling, light-hearted, but highly informative colophons. Hamady's role as a teacher made the Perishable Press highly influential, with many of his students founding presses working in a very similar tradition. Hamady wrote in the prospectus that this wonderful book was begun in 1969, but took much longer to complete than anticipated. The text is in three parts. Part One is the Introduction. Part Two is about needs and equipment. Part Three, the longest section, is about procedures and techniques, and gives a detailed account of exactly how to make paper as they do it. It was worth the amount of time it took to write and make. It is a beautiful book replete with about 80 pages of handmade paper in five colors, some with text and six blank pages from other paper mills bound in as examples. Bound in light brown Irish linen cloth with title in blind to spine. The title page calligraphy was by Herman Zapf. With numerous illustrations, includine one signed by Walter Hamady. This very fine book was included in the Grolier Club's A Century for the Century. Measures 7 x 10.5 inches. About 42 pages of text plus paper samples. PRI/092024. Signed.

Condition: Very fine copy. Oblong small 8vo, illustrated, original boards. Very fine copy. First edition. Limited to 125 copies printed on various handmade papers. Signed by the binder, Marta Gomez, Hamady's assistant, Kent Kasuboske, & Hamady.

Condition: A fine copy. 12mo, original boards. A fine copy. First edition. One of 200 copies printed. Hamady 100. Selected as one of the A.I.G.A.'s Fifty Best Books of the Year.

stiff paper wrappers. Perishable Press (illustrator). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 120 numbered copies (Hamady 61). Slight sunning to top third of front cover, and along the spine of both the front and rear cover, else a fine copy. First of a series of playful books, perhaps a parody of the structure and parts of a book. Handset type on a variety of Shadwell papers of different sizes. Handsewn into blue Fabriano wrappers with U.S. Geodetic Survey maps of the Blue Mounds region of Dane and Iowa counties, Wisconsin, as inner wrappers. Dedication, table of contents, foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction. Endnotes, bibliography.

Tall 8vo, illustrations by Jim Lee, original cloth. Fine copy of one of the most important books of the press. Fine copy of one of the most important books of the press. First edition. Limited to 200 copies printed on various handmade papers with title page typeface designed by Hermann Zapf.

A miniature book, 2 x 1 3/4 inches, original Swedish marbled paper wrappers handmade by the author. A very fine copy of this rare miniature. A very fine copy of this rare miniature First edition of the smallest book from the press, "just the right size for a two-year-old little girl", the little girl being Laura Evans Hamady, the author's daughter. One of only 60 copies salvaged from an intended edition of 365 copies. Hamady, Two Decades of Hamady & The Perishable Press, 78.

Condition: Good. 8vo., Folded Sheet, Letterpress On Laid Paper with Deckled Edge, Fine. Illustration. One of one hundred & thirteen copies on Shadwell Paper. First Edition.

Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Miniature book, 2-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. unpag., wrappers. One of 225 copies, the entire edition, "hand & tweezer set from moveable types made in Europe & Kalamazoo. . ." (colophon).

Unbound. Condition: Very Good+ binding. First Edition. Oblong octavo. [4], 20, [1] ff. Limited edition, press numbered 87 of 125 copies. As issued, printed on one side of 25 different shades of handmade Shadwell paper, all laid into a portfolio backed in cloth with autumnal marbled paper sides; all in a cloth slipcase. A beautiful production of these poems pulled from Hamady's journal. He notes in the colophon that in addition to bringing these poems "into the air" this works served the purpose "to use up all the different papers that came from trying to reduce our supply of old towels, ties, jeans, sheets & shirts?so you could say our friends have slept on & worn this book." Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 52.

Broadside. First Edition. 10.5" x 7.25". Broadside. 10 proofs. A wonderful group of proofsheets printed in Sabon Antiqua on Plover Fineweave paper with an illustration of the Hamady farm at the head. Some have editorial marks in red, one has the "Printer's Devil" header affixed. Variation among the proofs include header and body text color and placement. All in a manilla envelope with "Proofs: Laura's Birth Announcement" in ink in Hamady's hand. A fascinating look into the design process of Hamady and this accentuated by the nature of the deeply personal subject matter. If ever a printer wanted to "get it right," it would be here. This is remarkable set of proofsheets for their insights in the personal and artistic life of an important American printer. Not in Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press.