SELECTED POEMS

Perishable Press, 1972. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Fine. 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 especially 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.