In addition a few books produced in Japan were beginning to filter into the United States from about 1957. Some that should be mentioned are Margaret Campbell's "Paper Toy Making" (c.1937), Maying Soong's "The Art of Chinese Paperfolding" (1948), Joseph Leeming "Fun with Paper ,(1939) and, most notably, Robert Harbin's "Paper Magic" (1956). In this situation, books on paperfolding were extremely scarce. Until then paperfolders in Europe and North America were few and far between and even in Spain and Argentina, where the discoveries of Unamuno had inspired a number of followers, paperfolding was little organised and the Spanish movement was still unknown outside those countries. Effectively, organised Origami didn't start until Lillian Oppenheimer founded the Origami Center in New York in October 1958.
No, Jerry isn't hallucinating! The paperfolding scene in the 1950s and 1960s was very different from that of the late 1990s. Harris wrote yesterday: "Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but I seem to recall hearing/reading somewhere that when Harbin's first origami books came out in the '50's and '60's that one or two hit the best-seller list in the UK.? Dave Lister or some other origami historian know what I'm recalling, or is it some sort of mental hallucination?!? "
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