Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library.  Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.
Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library.  Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.
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Title Description Author Publisher
Box of happiness Hand-set metal type and linoleum cuts printed on a Vandercook press. Paper handmade by Michelle Wilson for the artist- 50/50 abaca /cotton and shredded money -- Artist's web site. MSU copy: Number 23 of 40. MSU copy: Signed by the author.
  • Austin, Alice
 Alice Austin
Victorian splendor A three-dimensional 19th-century desk with drop down writing panel and pull out drawers, with Victorian decor such as peacock feathers, a Japanese fan, and a gas lamp. Includes an 8-page miniature accordion book. Materials: Bockingford-cream watercolor paper 140 lb., Cranes natural white paper 140lb; Biscotti-colored archival mat board; casein archival fixative. Processes: Gocco and digital printing. Watercolor. Housed in a hardbound 9 x 11 x 2.5; clamshell case covered in hand-painted Japanese silk book cloth. (From dealer's website.) Perhaps like many people, we tended to connect the Women's Suffrage Movement with images of early 20th-century parades and pickets. However, a chance encounter with a wonderful little book, Women of the Suffrage Movement by Janice E. Ruth & Evelyn Sinclair ..., reminded us of the pre-Civil War beginnings of the campaign and the remarkable women who supported it. This book from the Library of Congress' Women Who Dare series acted as inspiration for our piece, Victorian Splendor. Back of piece has envelope containing artists' statement. MSU copy:
  • Pollack, Amee J.
  • Spitz, Laurie
 Amee J. Pollack
Thread Enclosed is Thread, a limited edition book available through Artomat. MSU copy: purchased from an Artomat vending machine in Louisville, Kentucky, in December 2006; donated by Ruth Ann Jones.
  • Brown, Nickole
  • Shannon, Debbie
 Artomat
Aspen : the magazine in a box. Includes phonodiscs; contains several booklets.
  • Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
  • Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
 Aspen Communications Inc.
Le secret = El secreto ... le deuxième de la collection Tierras/Terres d'Azul éditions. --Colophon. Poem. Colored maps on end papers. Paper wrappers bound in. One of 20 hors commerce copies with the two original woodengravings by San Martin further hand-colored by the artist, from a total issue of 95, all copies signed by the poet and artist on the colophon. --Bookseller's information, laid in. MSU copy: Exemplaire no HC/75, IV/XX --Colophon.
  • Marteau, Robert
  • Mattoni, Silvio
  • San Martin, José, 1951-
 Azul