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
We can go beyond it Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates. Digital collages by the artist. Handset type. Variation on accordion fold by Hedi Kyle. Housed in an archival folding box with velcro closure. Each end of the book has a removable spine to allow manipulating of the pages in many ways. -- Booksellers's website. Edition of 43. Title sheet and business card in pocket on folding container. MSU copy:
  • Elmer, Bridget
 Flatbed Splendor
Domestic science : idioms ; domestic science : pop-up icons Sheet printed on both sides, accordian-folded, with pop-up illustrations and folded leaves laid in. Designed to be read from each end; separate t.p. at each end. Issued in a case. Printed by Julie Chen; linoleum block illustrations by Nance O'Banion--Cf. inside case. Limited ed. of 150 signed and numbered copies.
  • Chen, Julie
  • O'Banion, Nance
 Flying Fish Press
Octopus Limited ed. of 100 copies. Letterpress printed on Magnani Pescia & Crescent papers in Cochin bold italic. Designed and engineered by Elizabeth McDevitt and Julie Chen ... The boxes were made by Sandy Tilcock --Colophon. Tunnel book with poem accumulating on every other leaf. When compressed the entire poem is readable. Poem in total on leaf [13]. Issued in drop-spine box. Colophon inside the box is printed in the shape of an octopus. The concertinas of the tunnel structure are printed to resemble fish net. Each leaf of the book has overall printed pattern. Leaves [11-13] have printed paper collage of an octopus's tentacle. End boards are cloth covered.
  • Chen, Julie
  • McDevitt, Elizabeth
  • Tilcock, Sandy
 Flying Fish Press
The veil In box (33 x 22 cm.). 'The Veil' was written and designed by Julie Chen in the fall of 2002. It was letterpress printed using a combination of photopolymer plates and collagraphic blocks on Wyndstone Marble papers, and cut using a Universal Systems Lasercutter. The binding was done by Julie Chen and Anna Sacramento at the studios of Flying Fish Press ... --Box lining paper. Produced in an edition of 100 copies, signed & numbered by the artist. This book can be displayed as a standing sculpture by curving the concertina into a circle, with all the pages facing outward, until the front and back covers touch. Magnets embedded in the covers will hold the book open in this position --Colophon. MSU copy: Number 34 in an edition of 100 copies.
  • Chen, Julie
 Flying Fish Press
Direction of the road Artist's book issued in portfolio box with an original woodcut illustration in anomorphic art form and a mirror made of plastic tubing and reflective polymer to view the woodcut. Limited ed. of 120 numbered copies and 30 hor de commerce copies numbered i-xxx, signed by the author and artist. MSU copy: Signed by artist this is no. 36 of 150. MSU copy: Acquired with funds provided by the SPC Endowment (2007).
  • Johnson, Aaron
  • Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-
 Foolscap Press
Food, sex and TV : fast, easy and fun No description available.
  • Heinecken, Robert, 1931-
 Fotoforum