re Gershon Legman - "He was personally responsible for the whole Western interest in origami - from his 1955 exhibit. " (Abby Sale, 05 Apr 02 above)

At first I thought "origami" might have been a mondegreen for "oragenitalism", as in "Oragenitalism: An Encyclopaedic Outline of Oral Technique in Genital Excitation" (Legman, Gershon [de La Glannege, Roger-Maxe])

One copy available via Bookfinder.com, £1605.73 inc postage if you're interested, from The Country Bookshop, Plainfield, Vermont:- "New York: Self Published, 1940. This is the very rare first edition which Legman probably self published. The bulk of the edition was purportedly seized by the government as pornographic. This copy has an inscription in Legman's distinctive handwriting, "for Alice / see p. 45" leading to a description of a woman who put sugar on her fulva in order to let flies tickle her. Slight soil on covers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7 3/4 " - 9 3/4 " tall."

But no, David Lister of the British Origami Society has this very full description of Legman's interest and influence in the field of paper-folding -

http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/legman.php

Ross