Michigan State University Home
person_outline

Browse the Artists' Books Collection

You must submit the scope/sort changes before clicking on a letter or the letters will not be updated
Title Description Author Publisher
Gas station attendant : artist's book. Artist's book describing the night shift at a Mobil gas station in Williamsville, New York. Enclosed in a protective cover made of cigarette boxes. Part of the Zine Exchange series, created by students in a Visual Studies Book Design course at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
  • Gilbert, Meghan
<publisher unknown>
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
Gates While the original print edition was 30, there were only 17 left to be made into books. Completely handcrafted ... in an edition of 17. Accordion fold book. Cloth covered boards attached at spine with ribbon. Sand dollar mounted on cover. MSU copy: Copy is no. 16 of an edition of 17. MSU copy: Purchased with funds provided by the Paul and Barbara Trudgen Library Endowment.
  • Timm, Jill
  • Mystical Places Press
Glosa : tres sonetos de Pedro Salinas Main text, with illustrations, is affixed collage-style to one sheet of thin brown paper (47 x 30 cm.) folded into six leaves (readable only when unfolded) and stapled at center of outer fold, with title sheet of grained sand-colored paper, into a wrapper of brown craft paper with tissue-paper endpapers. Illustrations, text and imitation snakeskin are affixed collage-style to wrapper. One of a series of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía. Limited ed. of 200 copies.
  • Avila Leyva, Maytelis
  • Rodríguez Santana, Gaudencio, 1969-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Golpes de Dios Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Mimeographed reproductions of typescript, decorative borders and drawings on folded leaves of mostly coarse brown paper; black tissue-paper endpapers. Stapled at left margin and glued to stiffened cardboard covers. Front cover has mounted paper cutouts, and a collage which incorporates twine, twigs, silver foil and wrapping paper. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... Fueron usados para esta edición papeles reciclados de bagazo de Caña de Azúcar en tonos sepias y sienas, asi como papel de china negro, recortería de papel blanco bond, de papeles de regalo y de papel espejo. --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 50. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • González Fagundo, Abel
  • Trujillo, Yohan Enrique
  • Ediciones Vigía