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
Who sets the rhythm : thoughts in 5-7-5 14 haiku written out in calligraphy by K.L. Darnell. Printed from an original manuscript book, this small volume is one of a limited edition of 100 handbound books. MSU copy: gift of Ruth Ann Jones.
  • Darnell, K. L.
  • Taylor, Helen
 Raoulian Press
Rock Rodondo : sketches third & fourth of "The Encantadas""" Illustrated and designed by Ronald Keller --P. [25]. Publisher's slip describing cover art by Philip Warner laid in. One hundred copies ... printed --P. [25].
  • Keller, Ronald
  • Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
 Red Angel Press
Hide Hide is a circular book contained in an aluminum box. The box measures 1 1/4 inch in diameter. This tiny sewn book combines printing, collage and hand work on tracing and printing papers. The set consisting of 25 variants was created in 2003;--Bookdealer's catalogue entry. 25 variants / P. Scobey --Colophon.
  • Scobey, Patricia
 Ricochet Works
Gastronomy during wartime : a banquet menu Menu drafted by Marechal de Richelieu during the Hanoverian War, printed one course per side on a hexagonal carousel structure, topped by a papier mâché covered dish. Menu translated from the French by Michael Stein. Limited ed. of 30 signed and numbered copies. Menu originally published in L'Almanach gourmand by Charles Monselet (Paris : Librarie Pagnerre, 1870, p. [51]-54)
  • Monselet, Charles, 1825-1888
  • Morton, Rebecca Brandeis
 Rock Scissors Paper Press