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
Abecedario 29 unpaged booklets (8 p. ; 11 cm.) with text and illustrations, based on the Spanish alphabet. Every letter of the alphabet is represented with images created by linoleum cuts, featuring cultural (calavera clarinete) or political images (anarquista). Collection of booklets housed in a white box (9 x 16 x 9 cm.) with a white label with red and black text. Edition of 99 copies. MSU copy: No. 22 of 100 copies initialled by author (2009).
  • Buchen, Dave
 D. Buchen
Mapping my world : buildings + bridges Inspired by a 1570 Ortelius atlas ... The prints are on Rives BFK and are hinged with rice paper. Pop-up elements are made from Canson. The vintage stamps and compasses were found. There are 30 copies --Colophon. Bound in 1 cm. wooden boards with a black leather spine. Boards are painted to look like maps; upper board has a compass embedded in its center. Illustrated endpapers. Stylized maps include the author's homes in Boston and Michigan, and Florence, Italy. The six pop-ups are the Summer Street Bridge and the artist's studio in Boston, the Mackinac Bridge and a cabin on Sugar Island in Michigan, and Ponte Santa Trinita and Santa Croce in Florence. MSU copy: Has copy 3 of limited edition of 30. MSU copy:
  • Davidson, Laura
 Davidson
Collapse Edition limited to 20 copies. Letterpress printed on Arches, using hand set type and pressure printing, with a little bit of Gocco printing for flair. Each poem is an individual book sewn to an accordion structure that allows the book to open dramatically. Includes instructions for use. MSU copy: Number 11 of 20 copies. MSU copy: Signed by author.
  • Thompson, Nikki
 Deconstructed Artichoke Press
La hermana de Eloísa Esta edición de La hermana de Eloísa, de Jorge Luis Borges y Luisa Mercedes Levinson, ha sido realizada por Del Centro Editores en homenaje a Jorge Luis Borges, al cumplirse ciento diez años de su nacimiento. The short story La hermana de Eloísa with full-color illustrations, printed on folded, unsewn sheets which are enclosed in a handmade protective portfolio and slipcase. Edition of 100 copies. MSU copy:
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
  • Levinson, Luisa Mercedes
  • Segui, Antonio, 1934-
 del Centro Editores
Oswajanie przedmiotow metalowych = Taming metal objects Book 50.
  • Wehr, Beata
 Dom Znowu