A large collection of more than 75 books from Walter Hamady's Perishable Press, including all eight volumes of the Gabberjabb series, and numerous other works by Hamady along with works by Mary Hamady, Laura Evans Hamady, Toby Olson, Armand Schwernder, Sam Hamod, Joel Oppenheimer, John Wilde, and others. Also included is a large archive of more than 100 ephemeral printings, prospectuses, proof sheets, broadside catalogs, announcements etc. Also included is an original artwork by Hamady, titled "Unknown Monument Re: The Species. 1970." Thick card cutout of an airplane with two kneeling headless female forms and a pair of kissing faces. Signed in pencil.
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.
The following books are included:
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Walter Hamady, Plumfoot Poems (1967).
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J.V. Cunningham, Aliquid Salis [Some Salt] (1967).
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Loren Eiseley, The Brown Wasps (1969).
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Carl Thayler, The Drivers (1969).
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Walter Hamady, Since Mary (1969).
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Toby Olson, Maps (1969). 2 copies.
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Toby Olson, Worms Into Nails (1969). 2 copies.
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James Laughlin, The Pig (1970).
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Sam Hamod, After the Funeral of Assam Hamady (1971).
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George Economou, Poems for Self Therapy (1972).
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Walter Hamady, In Sight of Blue Mounds (1972).
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Mary Hamady, An Everyday Celebration (1972).
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Sam Hamod, The Famous Blue Mounds Scrapbook (1972).
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Robert Vas Dias, The Life of Parts (1972).
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Kenneth Bernard, Two Stories (1973).
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Mary Laird (Hamady), The Eggplant Skin Pants (1973).
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Ken Mikolowski, Thank You Call Again (1973).
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Voltaire the Hamadeh [Walter Hamady], Interminable Gabberjabbs (1973).
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Walter Hamady, Hunkering in Wisconsin: Another Interminable Gabberjabb(1974).
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Toby Olson, Fishing (1974).
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Norman Russell, Open the Flower (1974).
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Harry Lewis, Pulsars (1974).
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Walter Hamady, Book No. 68. (1974)
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Armand Schwerner, Redspel (1974).
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Walter Hamady, Thumbnailing the Hilex / Gabberjabb Number 3 (1974).
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Walter Hamady, The Interminable Gabberjabb Volume One (&) Number Four (1975).
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Joel Oppenheimer, Acts (1976).
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Donald Hall, Kicking the Leaves (1976).
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Harry Mark Petrakis, Chapter Seven from The Hour of the Bell (1976).
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Toby Olson, Three & One (1976).
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Armand Schwerner, Triumph of the Will (1976).
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Walter Hamady, Wowa’s First Book (1977).
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Gilbert Sorrentino, Sulpicia Elegidia / Elegiacs of Sulpicia (1977).
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Toby Olson, Doctor Miriam (1977).
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Jane Augustine, Lit by the Earth’s Dark Blood (1977).
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Michael Heller, Figures of Speaking (1977).
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John Wilde, The Story of Jane & Joan (1977).
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Laura Evans Hamady, Epiphany 1978 & Happy Birthday (1978).
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Frank Rubovits, Doggerel Exchange (1978).
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August Derleth, Last Light (1978).
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Laurence T. Giles, Goat Cottage Dream Poems (1978).
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Janet Rodney / Nathaniel Tarn, The Forest (1978).
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Walter Hamady, The Quartz Crystal History of Perry Township Since the Earliest Creation of Life (1979).
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Walter Hamady, Seeds & Chairs (1979).
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Laura Evans Hamady, Quotables from 1978 (1979).
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Laura Evans Hamady & Friends, Why Did You Did/t? (1980).
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Toby Olson, Birdsongs (1980).
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Arthur R. Brown, Song of the Sly Mongoose (1981).
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Laura Evans Hamady & Friends, Squatting Flies (1981).
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Walter Hamady, For the Hundredth Time Gabberjabb Number Five (1981).
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Walter Hamady, Hand Papermaking: Papermaking by Hand, Being a Book of Suspicions (1982).
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Joel Oppenheimer, Del Quien Lo Tomo :: A Suite (1982).
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Laura, Micah & Samantha Hamady, Bait As In Baithoven (1983).
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George Economou, Philodemos (1983).
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Joel Oppenheimer, Notes Towards the Definition of David (1984).
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John Wilde, 44 Wilde 1944 (1985).
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Conrad Hilberry, Jacob’s Dancing Tune (1986).
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Bernard, Allen Ginsberg, Toby Olson, Jerome Rothenberg, and Joe Oppenheimer, Since Man Began to Eat Himself(1986).
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Walter Hamady, Eyes Touch & Change (1986).
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Peter Glassgold, Hwaet! (1987).
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Walter Hamady, Neopostmodrinism Dieser Rasen Ist Kein Hundeklo or Gabberjabb Number 6 (1988-1989).
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Ann McGarrell, Flora (1990).
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Walter Hamady, Of Boulders and Bolides (1991).
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Toby Olson, The Pool (1991).
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Walter Hamady, 1985, The Twelve Months (1992).
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Jonathan Williams, No-No Nse-Nse (1993).
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Joel Oppenheimer, New Hampshire Journal (1994).
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Reeve Lindbergh, John’s Apples (1995).
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Walter Hamady & Friends, Travelling / Gabberjabb No. 7 (1991-1996).
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Bobby Byrd, Art in America (1997-1998).
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John Wilde, WHMSSHW (What His Mother’s Son Hath Wrought) (1988-1989).
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Richard Wiley, Whitman Sampler (1999).
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Kenneth Bernard, Nullity (2000).
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Walter Hamady and John Wilde, A Hamady Wilde Sampler / Salutations 1995 (2001).
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Toby Olson, Depression Dog (2003).
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Walter Hamady, Hunkering, the Last Gabberjabb (2006).
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Walter Hamady, A Timeline of Sorts (2007-2011).
Also included is a very large archive of more than 100 ephemeral printings from the press, list not available.
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