📚 Origami

Paper folded: the models, the mathematics that fell in love with them, and diagrams that teach without words.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject origami in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Origami	Robert Harbin	1968	33
	The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions	Martin Gardner	1961	17
	The Origami Handbook	Rick Beech	2001	14
	Origami	坂出 フローレンス	1957	11
	Super Simple Paper Airplanes	Nick Robinson	1991	10
	Origami in Color	Zülal Aytüre-Scheele	1986	9
	Origami and Papercraft	Paul Jackson	1988	9
	Secrets of Origami	Robert Harbin	1963	8
	Fun with Paper Folding	William D. Murray	1928	7
	Origami	Gay Merrill Gross	1990	7
	Kreatives origami	Irmgard Kneissler	1992	7
	The World of Origami	本多 功	1965	6
	Creative origami	笠原 邦彦	1968	6
	Origami - Papierfalten	Irmgard Kneissler	1984	6
	Origami	Paul Jackson	1989	6
	Simply Sound	Eric Braun	2014	6
	Origami Omnibus	笠原 邦彦	1988	5
	Origami Sea Life	John Montroll	1991	5
	Origami Monsters	朝日 勇	1992	5
	Avions de papier	Didier Boursin	2000	5
	Origami³	Thomas Hull	2002	5
	Pliages et découpages faciles	Didier Boursin	2004	5
	Project Origami	Thomas Hull	2006	5
	Trash Origami	Michael G. LaFosse	2010	5
	Origami Inspirations	Meenakshi Mukerji	2010	5
	The Art of Origami	Samuel Randlett	1961	4
	Modern Origami	James Minoru Sakoda	1969	4
	Origami	Eric Kenneway	1984	4
	Complete Origami	Eric Kenneway	1987	4
	The Complete Book of Origami	Robert J. Lang	1988	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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