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
Alabama kitchen : recipes for the Southerner and the Southerner-at-heart Includes index. Text and cover papers used for this project were handmade by Annie Herlocker in the Lost Arch Papermill. Collection of 24 recipes by Alabama farmers from Waterberry Farms, Bulger Creek Farms, L.L.C., and Katie Farms. MSU copy: Copy number 12 of 50. MSU copy: Signed by the author.
  • Herlocker, Annie
  • Player, Lucy
 Paper Revival Press
Let's eat A quarterly farming journal for Alabamians. -- Cover p. [2] Collection of 7 recipes by Alabama farmers. MSU copy: Number 41 of 100. MSU copy: Signed by the author.
  • Herlocker, Annie
 Paper Revival Press
Daily bread MSU copy: This is number 32 in an edition of 45.
  • Pirkle, Amy
 Perkolator Press
Happy together Text is from a song by the Turtles. A double scrolling structure, with multi-layered color letterpress printing. Illustrations are linoleum cuts made by Donna Thomas, printed letterpress on a Vandercook proof press using a rainbow roll, then hand colored. -- Artists' web catalog. MSU copy: Number 26 out of 30 copies.
  • Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue)
  • Thomas, Peter (Peter R.)
 Peter & Donna Thomas
The accordion book One-of-a-kind artist's book made from a vintage accordion with the trade name Fratelli Giovanni, Torino, Accordion Italiana and in smaller letters, Made in Germany. The keys appear to be made from mother-of-pearl and the case has a floral design. The bellows have been slit open and fitted with sheets of paper carrying the book's content. This book was made by Peter & Donna Thomas in February of 2010. The images, collected over the years, were printed on Peter's handmade paper & hand-colored by Donna. The text was written by Peter, & hand-written in the accordion book by Donna. Before being purchased by the MSU Libraries, this book was exhibited at the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Book Arts Center in April 2010.
  • Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue)
  • Thomas, Peter (Peter R.)
 Peter & Donna Thomas
The pencil This book tells a short history of the pencil and displays vintage advertising pencils. The text was hand written and colored with pencil by Donna, then color copied on Peter's handmade paper. This book features a unique tri-fold binding, with the text hidden behind an inner cover. There is a display of 6 advertising pencils mounted in the center of the book in a dove tail jointed wooden holder made of pencil cedar. Donna executed the binding, with oasis goat leather spines and Peter's hand made paper that was printed with multiple-runs in multiple colors of in using antique wood type. -- Artists' website. MSU copy: Number 13 of 30 copies.
  • Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue)
  • Thomas, Peter (Peter R.)
 Peter & Donna Thomas
Trees Text from Walt Whitman. Watercolor illustrations of trees painted on site in the Sierra Nevada by Donna, color copied and mounted as photos in an old album in an accordion fold book. Paper hand made by Peter Thomas. [In] slipcover. -- Artists' web catalog. MSU copy: Copy 29 of 30.
  • Thomas, Donna (Donna Sue)
  • Thomas, Peter (Peter R.)
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
 Peter & Donna Thomas