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Series 3: Professional Files, 1950-2018 (continued)
Subseries 6: Perishable Press, Ltd. Books, 1964-2011 and undated
This subseries includes a full run of the 131 books published through the Perishable Press, Limited. Each copy is annotated by Hamady. In addition to the Perishable Press books, this series includes Reading, by Toby Olson and Poetry Through Typography, by Hermann Zapf. The former was published by Friends of Typography, an experiment undertaken by one of Hamady’s class of students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The latter was included with the run of Perishable Press books by Hamady himself.
Materials include books and artists’ books; trial bindings; unbound copies and related materials.
Arranged chronologically, with the exception of larger items, which can be found in Series 3, Box 47.
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/1 Hamady, Walter - The Disillusioned Solipsist, 1964
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/2 Hamady, Walter Samuel - Ephemeral Genesis, 1965
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/3 Creeley, Robert - Words, 1965
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/4 Hamady, Walter and Koutroulis, Aris - Six Poems & Pictures, 1965
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/5 Hamady, Walter and Koutroulis, Aris - Consenting Shadows, 1966
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/6 Duncan, Robert - Six Prose Pieces, 1966
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/7 Hamady, Walter - Closing Flowers, 1966
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/8 Hamady, Walter - The Plumfoot Poems: A Summer Sequence, 1966
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/9 Blackburn, Paul - The Reardon Poems, 1967
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/10 Oppenheimer, Joel - Sirventes On A Sad Occurance, 1967
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/11 Hall, Walter - Spider Poems, 1967
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/12 Hamady, Walter - Plumfoot Poems (2), 1967
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/13 Cunningham, J.V. - Aliquid Salis[Some Salt], 1967
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/14 Creeley, Robert - The Charm, 1967
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/15 Creeley, Robert - Divisions & Other Early Poems, 1967
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/16 Stafford, William - Eleven Untitled Poems, 1968
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/17 Goodman, Mitchell - Light From Under A Bushel, 1968
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/18 Wieners, John - Unhired, 1968
BOX/FOLDER 3:42/19 Levertov, Denise - Three Poems, 1968
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/1 Blackburn, Paul - Two New Poems, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/2 Oppen, George - Alpine, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/3 Eiseley, Loren - The Brown Wasps, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/4 Thayler, Carl - The Drivers, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/5 Wakoski, Diane - Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons, 1969
With announcement
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/6 Stafford, William - Weather, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/7 Hamady, Walter - Since Mary, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/8 Olson, Toby - Maps, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/9 Olson, Toby - Worms Into Nails, 1969
With announcement
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/10 Olson, Toby - The Brand, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/11 Hamady, Mary Laird - This Gentle Strength We Share, 1969
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/12 Blackburn, Paul - The Assassination of President McKinley, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/13 Laughlin, James - The Pig, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/14 Heller, Michael - Two Poems, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/15 Waldrop, Keith - Songs from the Decline of the West, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/16 Blackburn, Paul - Gin, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/17 Gardons, S.S. - Remains, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/18 Hamady, Walter S. - The Chair, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/19 Hamady, Walter - One Day to Sintra & Back, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/20 Kinnell, Galway - First Poems 1946-1954, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/21 Waldrop, Rosemary - Spring Is A Good Season And Nothing Else, 1970
With letter
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/22 Levertov, Denise - A New Year's Garland, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/23 Kherdian, David - Homage to Adana, 1970
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/24 Kinnell, Galway - The Shoes of Wandering, 1971
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/25 Hamady, Walter S. - These Chairs, 1971
With announcement
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/25a These Chairs trial binding, undated
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/26 Minasian, Khatchik - Five Poems, 1971
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/27 Rail, DeWayne - Going Home Again, 1971
With proof
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/28 Hamod, Sam - After the Funeral of Assam Hamady, 1971
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/29 Cunningham, J.V. - Selected Poems, 1971
BOX/FOLDER 3:43/30 Merwin, W.S. - Chinese Figures, 1971
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/1 Blackburn trial binding, undated
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/2 Blackburn, Paul - The Journals: Blue Mound Entries, 1971
See also: Series 7, Subseries 1, Box 2, Folder 11
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/3 Economou, George - Poems for Self Therapy, 1972
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/4 Hamady, Walter - In Sight of Blue Mounds, 1972
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/5 Hamady, Mary - An Everyday Celebration, 1972
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/6 Hamod, Sam - The Famous Blue Mounds Scrapbook, 1972
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/7 Vas Dias, Robert - The Life of Parts, 1972
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/8 Bernard, Kenneth - Two Stories, 1973
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/9 Laird, Mary (Hamady) - The Eggplant Skin Pants, 1973
With related correspondence
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/10 Rothenberg, Jerome - Seneca Journal 1: A Poem of Beavers, 1973
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/11 Stafford, William - That Other Alone, 1973
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/12 Mikolowski, Ken - Thank You Call Again, 1973
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/13 Russell, Norman - Open the Flower, 1974
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/14 Lewis, Harry - Pulsars, 1974
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/15 Hamady, Walter - Book No. 68, 1974
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/16 Wakoski, Diane - The Wandering Tattler, 1974
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/17 Schwerner, Armand - Redspel, 1974
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/18 Rothenberg, Jerome - A Poem to Celebrate the Spring & Diane Rothenberg's Birthday, 1975
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/19 Blackburn, Paul - Guillem De Pointou, 1976
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/20 Oppenheimer, Joel - Acts, 1976
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/21 Hall, Donald - Kicking the Leaves, 1976
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/22 Petrakis, Harry Mark - Chapter Seven from The Hour of the Bell, 1976
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/23 Olson, Toby - Three & One, 1976
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/24 Schwerner, Armand - Triumph of the Will, 1976
With announcement
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/25 Hamady, Walter - Wowa's First Book, 1977
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/26 Sorrentino, Gilbert - Sulpicia Elegidia/Elegiacs of Sulpicia, 1977
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/27 Olson, Toby - Doctor Miriam, 1977
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/28 Augustine, Jane - Lit by the Earth's Dark Blood, 1977
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/29 Heller, Michael - Figures of Speaking, 1977
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/30 Hamady, Laura Evans - Epiphany 1978 & Happy Birthday, 1978
With broadside
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/31 Rubovits, Frank - Doggerel Exchange, 1978
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/32 Derleth, August - Last Light, 1978
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/33 Giles, Laurence T. - Goat Cottage Dream Poems, 1978
See also: Series 7, Subseries 1, Box 1, Folder 29
BOX/FOLDER 3:44/34 Stafford, William - Tuft by Puff, 1978
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/1 Rodney, Janet and Tarn, Nathaniel - The Forest, 1978
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/2 Rothenberg, Jerome - B.R.M.TZ.V.H., 1979
With order form
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/3 Hamady, Walter - Seeds & Chairs, 1979
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/4 Seeds & Chairs extras, undated
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/5 Hamady, Laura Evans - Quotables from 1978, 1979
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/6 Hamady, Laura Evans & Friends - Why Did You Did/t?, 1980
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/7 Blackburn, Paul - The Selection of Heaven, 1980
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/8 Olson, Toby - Birdsongs, 1980
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/9 Hilberry, Conrad - Housemarks, 1980
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/9a Hilberry, Conrad - Housemarks, 1980
Removed from matting, Map File Drawer 1
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/10 Brown, Arthur R. - Song of the Sly Mongoose, 1981
With announcement
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/11 Hamady, Laura Evans & Friends - Squatting Flies, 1981
With announcement
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/12 Hamady, Walter - For the Hundredth Time Gabberjab Number Five, 1981
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/13 Wakoski, Diane - Making a Sacher Torte, 1981
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/14 Hamady, Walter - Hand Papermaking: Papermaking by Hand, Being a Book of Suspicions, 1982
See also: Series 7, Subseries 1, Box 2, Folder 13
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/15 Hand Papermaking unbound copy, undated
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/15a Hand Papermaking proof, undated
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/16 Oppenheimer, Joel - Del Quien Lo Tomo: A Suite, 1982
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/17 Hamady, Laura, Micah & Samantha - Bait As In Baithoven, 1983
With announcement
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/18 Economou, George - Philodemos, 1983
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/19 Blackburn, Paul - The Omitted Journals, 1983
BOX/FOLDER 3:45/20 Oppenheimer, Joel - Notes Towards the Definition of David, 1984
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