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Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1985. Original handmade paper covers. 26 x 19 cm. Full page illustrations. Unpaginated. Edition of 200 copies. Fine.Mailing label from Perishable Press included. John Wilde, an American surrealist associated with the Magic Realist school of painting, whose fantastic, darkly humorous images brought him fame far beyond his native Wisconsin, died on March 9, 2006 at his home in Cooksville. He was 86.The cause was cancer, said his dealer, Tory Folliard of the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee.Mr. Wilde (pronounced WILL-dee) dedicated his six-decade career to painting, with an exacting touch, narratives involving grotesque, doll-like people in otherworldly situations. He was inspired partly by Salvador Dalí and partly by Northern Renaissance masters like Bosch and Grünewald.Mr. Wilde often painted himself into his pictures, giving himself a weirdly oversized and misshapen head. He also created intensely detailed, colorful and… Read More

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1983. Original handmade paper cover.12.5 x 18 cm. 48 page surfaces, 36 printed. Edition of 228 copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 104.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.

San Francisco, Calif.: North Point Gallery, 2008.. One (1) quad-fold pamphlet, 9 x 19". Reproduces 16 of the artists oil paintings in color.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1976 . Original handmade marbled papers over boards.. 25 x 18 cm. 44 page surfaces, 22 printed. Edition of 137 numbered copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 75.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.

Santa Barbara, CA: Christopher's Books, 1972.. Broadside. Title printed in red and blue; poem text in black. On gray fine paper. 15 x 10 inches. One corner bent, otherwise Near Fine.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1982. Original handmade paper cover.20 x 13.5 cm. 44 page surfaces, 13 printed. Edition of 228 copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 103.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.

Mount Hebron, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 2003. 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… Read More

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1977 . Original handmade paper covers. 24.5 x 17 cm. 40 page surfaces, 25 printed. Edition of 144 signed numbered copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 80.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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1978 . Original handmade paper cover. 20.5 x 13 cm. 24 page surfaces, 11 printed. Edition of 125copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 85.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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1973. Original blind-stamped buckram. 32 x 25 cm. 48 page surfaces, 40 printed. Edition of 175 numbered copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 57Walter 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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1978 . Original handmade paper cover. 17 x 14 cm. 16 page surfaces, 9 printed. Edition of 80 copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 84.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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1971. Original handmade paper covers. 18 x 14 cm. 16 page surfaces, 9 printed. Edition of 55 copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 53.Signed presentation copy.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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1972. Original handmade paper covers. 9 x 14 cm. 24 page surfaces, 17 printed. Edition of 85 copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 54.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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1990. Oblong small folio. 26 x 33 cm (10¼ x 13"), wood boards with vellum spine, original green cloth clamshell box with decorations in blind. No. 36 of 125 copies.Collation: 7 blank leaves of different types of handmade paper, 22 leaves of illustrations and text; long manuscript presentation by Hamady to his friend J.F. Holly, and 5 further blank leaves of different types of handmade paperThe 114th book of the press. This copy with a warm inscription from publisher Walter Hamady on rear blank.Ann McGarrell’s selection of poems, Flora: Poems, with illustrations by Jack Beal, printed in 1990 by Walter Hamady at his Perishable Press in Mt. Horeb, Wiscosnin. This is the 114th book from the Perishable Press, produced in an edition of 125 copies.and hand-printed in Sabon type, cast at Stempel Type Foundry, on a variety of different papers, including Twinrocker, Hamady’s own handmade Shadwell paper, and several Japanese papers, including… Read More

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1978 . Original handmade paper covers. 25 x 17 cm. 24 page surfaces, 17 printed. Edition of 190 numbered copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 89.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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1978 . Original handmade paper covers. 14 x 19.5 cm. 24 page surfaces, 18 printed. Edition of 1119 copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 87.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.

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970.. Broadside. Black type, woodcut illustration (uncredited) in blue. 15 x 20 inches. 200 copies printed. Poem by poet and playwright Moore, now known as Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore. Creasing at top right corner, some browning along left edge, otherwise Near Fine.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1972. Original marbled boards and cloth chemise in cloth slipcase. 16 x 20 cm. 25 leaves printed on one side, loose as issued. . Edition of 125 numbered copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, no. 52.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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1979 . 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 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.

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1986. Original handmade paper covers. 21 x 15 cm. 26 leaves. Edition of 125 copies. Fine.Invoice from Perishable Press included.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.