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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
Rondo : an artist book No description available.
  • Schapiro, Miriam, 1923-
 Bedford Arts
I am taking my time making something One hundred copies were printed and handmade paper covers were formed at Pyramid Atlantic. Pages folded from 1 continuous strip; board covers.
  • Buescher, Jean
 Bloodroot Press
I was on my way upstairs to see you Poem, book & cover design, printing, pochoir, and binding by Jean Buescher. Calligraphy by Nancy Leavitt. Printed in an edition of 135 .. at the Digger Pine Press in Berkeley, CA. ... A reprint of the 1990 Parley Vale Press edition. --Colophon. MSU copy: Number 2 of 135. Signed by the artists.
  • Buescher, Jean
  • Leavitt, Nancy Ruth
 Bloodroot Press
Impronta Limited ed. of 35 copies, signed by the artist. The plant photographs in this...book are color xeroxes of infrared silver prints shot in Florence, Italy...photographs, printing, book design, paper dying, and binding by Jean Buescher. Printed at the Digger Pine Press in Berkeley, CA...Number 13 of 35, signed by the author.--Colophon. Flag book with concertina binding: each leaf consists of three pieces of paper which are attached to a central accordion-folded hinges. MSU copy:
  • Buescher, Jean
 Bloodroot Press
Porch swing The porch photographs in this limited edition book are color xeroxes of infrared silver prints shot in Penland, N.C. ... Photographs, printing, book design and binding by Jean Buescher. Printed at the Digger Pine Press in Berkeley, CA. Concertina binding, issued in a split-page format: each page consists of three pieces of paper attached to a central accordion-folded hinge. MSU copy: Signed by author.
  • Buescher, Jean
  • Swan, Alison
 Bloodroot Press
On this land : poem Limited ed. of 125 copies, signed by the poet and artist. On This Land was produced during the winter of 1996 at the artist's own Blue Heron Press. Each reduction woodcut image was printed in 5 runs from two basswood blocks by the artist and Nancy Palmeri. The typeface is Baskerville in 14 points. The paper is mouldmade Nideggen and the cover is handmade red flax paper stained with walnut. This edition of 125 copies was created for and supported by the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.--Colophon. Letterpress printed with accordion-folded pages glued to paper wrapper. MSU copy: Number 114. Signed by the artist.
  • Castillo, Lenora
  • Kunc, Karen S.
 Blue Heron Press
Mid point Ink jet printing on Mohawk, July 2001, Bonnie Stahlecker--Colophon statement. Six p. accordion fold with three multiple step pop-ups on front layer, lower layer is col. ill. sheet which would extend to ca. 21.6 cm. Pop-up structure prevents fully extending lower sheet. Folded sheet mounted to grey cloth boards, printed paper title label; in a mustard brown open case with cutout to allow title label to show. MSU copy:
  • Stahlecker, Bonnie
 Bonnie Stahlecker
Colored people : a collaborative book project This project was compiled and produced as an artist's book mock-up in 1987 for the travelling exhibition Coast to Coast: Women of Color National Artists' Book Project.
  • Piper, Adrian, 1948-
 Book Works