BIRD & BULL PRESS: BARRETT, Timothy.

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Nagashizuki: The Japanese craft of hand papermaking; First editions, numbers 58 and 124 of 300 copies each. This study of traditional Japanese papermaking details the production process, traditional tools and equipment, and the history of the industry. The samples include ganpi, minogami, and mitsumata paper, with five made by the author himself.The Anatomy of a Literary Hoax is a small reflective piece describing how the publisher inserted a phoney resource into the bibliography of Nagashizuki as a joke without the author's knowledge.

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