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Title Description Author Publisher
Livre des livres Our twist on the livre de peintre is to issue our book in what we think of as its final form. We wanted to make a hand-painted book with original prints inside the French fold. Issued in a slipcase. Abe, Jennifer
  • Scripps College Press
Puertas oscuras : poemas Mimeographed reproduction of typescript on individual coarse cream-colored papers, with decorative borders. Stapled at left margin and tied with blue cord. Front wrapper has illustration and tan tissue paper glued on black paper. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Date of publication from colophon. ...consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 165. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000). Acosta de Arriba, Rafael, 1953-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Difícil escribir Poems. Mimeographed reproduction of italic typescript, manuscript titles and text, drawings and borders on individual leaves of brown and cream-colored papers stapled at the left margin and tied with cord to cream-colored art-paper wrappers. Front wrapper and preliminaries have colored and decorated-paper collages. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Diseño y dibujos: Hiram Aguiar --Colophon. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... --Colophon. Includes brief excerpts from Pedro Salinas. LC has copy no. 119, signed by the author. MSU has copy no. 77, and is signed by the author. Aguiar, Hiram
  • Ediciones Vigía
Canción antigua a Che Guevara Poem. Mimeographed reproduction of handwritten text and drawings on individual leaves of grained white, brown, and sand-colored papers stapled at left margin and glued to brown paper wrappers. Text of poem is on a longer, folded leaf with a mimeographed border. Mounted paper cutouts include yellow and orange paper. Endpapers are black tissue paper. Wrappers have decorated-paper collages, hemp cord on front. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Place of publication, publisher, and series name from colophon. Date of publication surmised from date of artist's other work and anniversary of death of Che Guevara. Consta de cien ejemplares, numerados, iluminados a mano ... --Colophon. LC has copy no. 30. MSU has copy no. 1. Aguirre, Mirta, 1912-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Misterios del oficio Selections from the translator's Libro de Ana. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript with manuscript titles and decorations on individual leaves of pink, white, and sand-colored papers of various textures. Stapled at left margin, glued to white paper wrappers, and tied with brown yarn. Titles in the preliminaries appear on mounted, mimeographed and painted colored-paper cutouts. Illustration in paper collage on front wrapper and on title pages is a reproduction of a portrait of Akhmatova by Amadeo Modigliani. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Diseño, Alfredo Zaldívar. Realización al cuidado de Orestes Roca --Colophon. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 111. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000). Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna, 1889-1966.
  • Ediciones Vigía
Without end : artist's book Artist's book containing images of small objects (such as a coin, a watch face, and a button) enlarged on a photocopier, captioned and mounted on circular black paper. Part of the Zine Exchange series, created by students in a Visual Studies Book Design course at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Allen, Samantha <publisher unknown>
Tulip Printed in 18 pt. Garamond on hand made paper with prints from an original watercolour painting --Colophon. Binding of red silk with yellow and black onlays, in clam-shell box. MSU copy: Library has copy number E (of regular numbers A-G). MSU copy: Copy signed by the author. Allix, Susan J., 1943-
  • Susan Allix
Bajo el cielo de adentro Poems. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript, titles in manuscript, illustrations, and borders on individual leaves of grained brown and sand-colored papers, blue bond and blue tissue paper, stapled at left margin and tied with cords to brown paper wrappers. Text appears on recto only, except for the index and colophon. Text of the poems is in italic typeface. The colophon is reproduced on brown paper--one sheet trimmed and folded, the second with torn edges--mounted on recto and verso of a half sheet. Wrappers, titles, and colophon have painted or mounted decorated-paper illustrations. Front wrapper has a collage including an original signed miniature by Estévez. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Place of publication and publisher from colophon. Artist's introduction dated 1994. Consta de doscientos ejemplares ... --Colophon. LC has copy no. 85, signed by the author. MSU has copy no. 183, signed by the author. Alonso, Digdora, 1921-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Danny y el viento Short story. Published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Esta edición especial ... consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano .... Para su confección fueron utilizados papeles reciclados e industriales de diversos colores, texturas y gramajes --Colophon. Text, illustrations and borders on leaves and pages of white, yellow and green-colored papers, stapled at left margin and tied with lavender and purple yarn to brown paper wrappers. Text appears on recto only except for p. 20, 24 and 48. Wrappers and titles have painted and mounted decorated-paper illustrations. In brown paper sack with mounted decorated-paper illustrations which also contains the author's Vanessa anda por aquí. Publication information from colophon. MSU has copy no. 77. Alonso, Digdora, 1921-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Interiores II Previously unpublished poem. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Poem in manuscript reproduced on single leaf of coarse brown paper, with ragged edges, folded to 25 x 9 cm (opens to 25 x 25 cm). Poem is preceded by two illustrated leaves, the second incorporating a piece of wood with evidence of termite activity. Heavy cardstock wrappers are trimmed to the shape of an upright section of tree trunk or log, illustrated to depict rough texture of bark and exposed cross-section at top, and bound to leaves of text and illustrations by three pieces of heavy brown yarn threaded through three holes at left margin and tied. On right side, front and back wrappers are trimmed to depict two small protruding branches that have been cut; from upper one is tied a length of light-weight brown yarn to which is tied a small wooden tag bearing the copy number. Place of publication and publisher from colophon. Consta de cientocincuenta ejemplares ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 16. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000). Alonso, Digdora, 1921-
  • Ediciones Vigía