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La anunciación Poem. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript and manuscript on individual leaves of coarse brown papers with mounted decorated-paper cutouts. Stapled at left margin, attached to wrappers with paper tape, and tied with purple and white cords. Paper collages on wrappers are mimeographed white bond, with hand colored details. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Originally published in the book Visitaciones, part 4, Anima viva. Consta de cincuenta ejemplares numerados... --Colophon. LC has copy no. 16. MSU has copy unnumbered copy.
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • García Marruz, Fina, 1923-
  • Ediciones Vigía
La balada de John y yo Poetry. En La balada de John y yo, su autora ha reunido todos los textos que ha escrito, dedicados a la memoria de John Lennon --P.2 of cover. Bound in heavy brown paper wrappers with mounted illustrations and decorated with stitching and dried flowers. MSU copy: Has copy no. 124.
  • Hernández Peña, Carmen, 1953-
  • Ríos, Marialva
  • Ediciones Vigía
La caída del cielo Matanzas, Junio del 2003;--Colophon. Edition consists of 200 numbered pieces and is part of the Wake Forest University's Academic Program in Cuba. Type set in decoratively bordered pages of recycled paper; illustrated with hand-colored ink sketches; cover made of art paper, decorated with collages of painted, rustic paper. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. MSU copy: Has no. 154 of limited edition of 200.
  • Báez Andux, Ivet
  • García, Cristina, 1958-
  • Vigía
La cascara profunda Mimeographed reproduction of typescript, with hand-lettered page numbers and preliminaries, and drawings on individual brown and white paper. Stapled together, glued and tied with orange cord to brown paper wrappers. Wrappers have mimeographed mounted paper cut-outs; front wrapper has mounted corrugated cardboard upon which are mounted paper cut-outs. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autor .... --Colophon. MSU has multiple copies. Copy 1 is no. 7, copy 2 is no. 87, both unsigned. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Ediciones Vigía
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
La hilacha Poems. Doscientos ejemplares manufacturados e iluminados a mano --Colophon. Illustrated with reproduced line drawings, some mounted. MSU copy: Has no. 125 of limited edition.
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Manzano Díaz, Roberto, 1949-
  • Ediciones Vigía
La huella cubana de Sarah Bernhardt Reproductions of typescript, decorative borders, and period photogravures and photographs (many portraits of the actress) on individual leaves of coarse brown and white bond papers, stapled at left margin, glued to brown paper wrappers, and tied with white cord. Black tissue-paper front flyleaves include a mounted reproduction of Bernhardt's autograph. Wrappers are covered with black tissue paper and illustrated with mounted, decorated paper cutouts. A wrung, heavy white paper tissue is mounted on front under a portrait of Bernhardt; background has some hand coloring. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Place of publication from colophon. Date of publication surmised from other items in shipment. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... Coauspician esta edición la Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad de Matanzas y el Servicio Cultural del Departamento de Cooperación Linguística y Educativa de la Embajada de Francia en La Habana --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 101. LC has copy no. 116. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • López, Fernando, 1962-
  • Ramos, Enrique, 1961-
  • Rey Alfonso, Francisco
  • Ruiz, Raúl R.
  • Ediciones Vigía
La jícara, Publicación quetzal-viento tomo uno/Número 8/Primaveral 1998. Ed. of 1000. Joined sheets of brown kraft paper accordion-folded to create 56 double-sided pages, paged front to back and then back to front on verso, with offset and silkscreen printing; includes envelopes with enclosures, tipped-in artwork, foldout pages, inserted books and cards, a full-size newsheet, and inserted postcards. (Originally issued with a separate English translation booklet (paged 125-151); wrapped with a string threaded through a carved gourd.) Cover art and illustrations of carved gourds from the village of Rabinal in Guatemala. MSU copy: MSU copy:
  • Godínez, Miguel Ángel, 1953-
  • Hernández Téllez, Luz Estela
  • Jurado, Carlos
  • Past, Ámbar
  • Casa de las Imágenes
  • Taller Leñateros
La leyenda del unicornio Esta edición ... consta de doscientos ejemplares, manufacturados e iluminados a mano ... --Colophon. Text printed primarily on coarse brown paper; white bond paper is also used. Brown tissue-paper endpapers; front endpaper has mounted illustration. Bound in heavy brown paper wrappers, which are hand-painted and feature mounted, hand-painted illustrations. On the front cover, the word unicornio is printed on white bond paper with letters painted blue and attached to a piece of cardboard which extends beyond the top edge of the cover.
  • Pérez Díaz, Enrique, 1958-
  • Salema, Rocío
  • Ediciones Vigía
La madera sagrada : antología de poesía Poems. Limited, hand numbered ed. One of a series of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía. Cover made from rough brown paper covered with pink and black tissue glued over it and decorated with mounted paper cutouts (some hand colored). Title, series, and publication information also given as mounted paper cutouts on cover. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript with border illustrations on white paper. Index and endpages on brown paper. MSU copy: Has copy 170.
  • Estévez Trejo, Patricio
  • Ruiz Montes, Laura, 1966-
  • Ediciones Vigía
La noche y otros cuentos MSU: No. 57 of limited edition of 200. Printed on grained sand-colored paper, with illustrations on white bond paper. Brown tissue-paper endpapers, with one illustration on white bond paper affixed. Heavy brown paper wrappers are decorated with affixed collages, including illustrations (partially hand-colored) on white bond paper, string, and glued sand. Decorative bookmark, with printed name of publisher and colored illustration of an oil lamp, laid in. Limited ed. of 200 copies. Part of a series of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía.
  • Quintero, Aramís
  • Ríos, Marialva
  • Ediciones Vigía
La pintura española vista por Marti Typescript with manuscript titles and borders mimeographed on individual leaves of coarse brown paper of various weights. Mounted paper cutouts have photocopied reproductions of paintings by Goya, Murillo, and Velazquez, as well as mimeographed drawings, titles and text. Stapled to printed boards (printer's waste), glued to brown paper wrappers and tied with white string. Paper collages on wrappers use gray, white, and black papers and have mimeographed, photocopied, and hand-painted designs. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autora ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 99, unsigned. LC has copy no. 196, apparently without author's signature.
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Juan, Adelaida de
  • Ediciones Vigía
La princesa y el frijol Translation into Spanish. Reproduced typescript on grained light brown paper, with light blue tissue endpapers, stapled, glued and tied to stiff brown paper wrappers with green yarn. Wrappers and title page have mounted cutouts of illustrations and hand-lettering reproduced on white bond, with hand-colored detailing added. Front wrapper incorporates a bean below strips of colored paper representing mattresses on an illustration of a bed. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 38. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
  • Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
  • Diego, Eliseo
  • Ediciones Vigía
La Revista del Vigía Esgrafiada iluminada a mano. Each no. issued in a limited ed. of 200 copies. Description based on: Año 5., no. 1, published in 1994. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vig?a under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. MSU copy: Individual issues housed in different boxes as they have been acquired. <author unknown>
  • Ediciones Vigía
La ronda Poems. Esta edición ... consta de doscientos ejemplares ... --Colophon. Bound in heavy brown paper wrappers with white wraparound band with author's name in hand-colored letters and title in cut-out letters. The front cover features a mounted, hand-tinted illustration of a woman with a gun slung from her waist; over the woman's heart, a purple piece of gauze is attached by cloth tape; the illustration folds over the top edge of the cover at the woman's waist.
  • Roque, Mae
  • Ediciones Vigía
La santa En Ediciones Vigía, sale a la luz por primera vez, Gabriel García Márquez (Premio Nobel) con uno de sus doce relatos peregrinos fértiles ... --P. [2] of cover. MSU has copy no. 27. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Agosto 1981;--P. 21. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript on grained off-white and brown papers with mounted, illustrated, paper cut-outs. Left side stapled and tied to off-white paper wrappers. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-
  • Ediciones Vigía
La vida es minuciosa Poems selected from Sestra mo?i?a zhizn?, Doktor Zhivago, and Kogda razgul?i?aets?i?a. Typescript, titles in manuscript, and drawings mimeographed on individual leaves of white bond and coarse brown paper with a few mounted, decorated-paper cutouts. Stapled at left margin to tissue and tracing-paper endpapers, which are glued to brown paper wrappers; tied with purple cord. Wrappers have collages of mimeographed and painted white bond, colored crepe, tissue, and art papers, mesh, and a panicle or inflorescence possibly of grass. Published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Foreword by Gerardo Díaz. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 186.
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Hernández Milián, Juan Luis, 1938-
  • Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960
  • Ediciones Vigía
Ladies & gentlemen Collages of text and illustrations, offering commentary on romantic relationships. 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.
  • Bowen, Laura
<publisher unknown>
Las adivi-rimas de la nana 1st ed. Ejemplar no: 018;--p.[1] ISBN: 9592401063. diseño y dibujos Ivet Báez Andux. Col. ill. title pages. Part of a collection of handmade chapbooks, many with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Each rhyme ends with a fill-in-blank. Answers inverted at bottom of page. Col. ill wrappers, ill., lettering in black, glued. MSU copy: Has no. 75.
  • Báez Andux, Ivet
  • Blanco Escandel, Julio
  • Ediciones Vigía
Las Carolinas blancas Typescript, illustrations and hand-lettered preliminaries mimeographed on coarse brown and light brown paper; forward on white bond; green tissue-paper endpapers. Stapled at left margin, glued to brown Kraft paper wrappers, and tied with olive, brown and gold yarn cords. Wrappers illustrated with collages of colored tissue-paper and decorated, colored bond; wrappers have wood details, front wrapper has hemp detail. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 36. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • González Arzola, Nancy
  • Trujillo, Yohan Enrique
  • Ediciones Vigía
Le secret = El secreto ... le deuxième de la collection Tierras/Terres d'Azul éditions. --Colophon. Poem. Colored maps on end papers. Paper wrappers bound in. One of 20 hors commerce copies with the two original woodengravings by San Martin further hand-colored by the artist, from a total issue of 95, all copies signed by the poet and artist on the colophon. --Bookseller's information, laid in. MSU copy: Exemplaire no HC/75, IV/XX --Colophon.
  • Marteau, Robert
  • Mattoni, Silvio
  • San Martin, José, 1951-
  • Azul
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
Libri Bound in painted wooden boards with raised centerpiece. Unique.
  • Davidson, Laura
  • L. Davidson
Livianos Poem. Typescript mimeographed on white paper banner with mounted brown-paper cutouts with mimeographed illustrations incorporating the author's name and hand-lettered title and colophon. Top edge is ragged and curved. Twine is tied to the top for hanging. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Este pergamino, mención del Premio Anual de Poesía América Bobia 1997 consta de cien ejemplares, firmados por su autor ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 49. LC has copy no. 096. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • López, Ariel, 1978-
  • Rodríguez Entenza, Rigoberto
  • Ediciones Vigía
Livre des livres Our twist on the livre de peintre is to issue our book in what we think of as its final form. We wanted to make a hand-painted book with original prints inside the French fold. Issued in a slipcase.
  • Abe, Jennifer
  • Maryatt, Kitty
  • Wakoski, Diane
  • Scripps College Press
Lo feo = The ugly things Mimeographed typescript and illustrations on folded leaves of colored bond. Coarse brown paper wrappers and single gathering are held by green yarn cord. Painted paper collage on front includes a corrugated paper pocket resembling a beverage container, into which is inserted a green plastic spoon and a piece of a drinking straw. Sawdust and small pebbles are glued to the wrapper beneath the pocket. Parallel Spanish and English text. Publication information from colophon and back wrapper. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Fernández, Teresita
  • Frye, David
  • Zaldívar, Alfredo, 1956-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Lo que no tenemos Mimeographed reproduction of typescript and manuscript on grained papers. T.p. and added t.p. have mimeographed manuscript text, and added t.p. is grained green paper. Stapled and tied to brown paper wrappers with green and white cord. Front wrapper has collage of mounted paper cutouts. Part of a collection of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Premio Virgilio Piñera de Cuento, Tricentenario de la ciudad. --P. [2] of cover. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares firmados ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 140, without author's signature, and is tied with green cord. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • Deus, Carlos Manuel
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Oliva, Carlos Miguel
  • Ediciones Vigía
Long slow march MSU copy: In dust jacket.
  • Meador, Clifton
  • Center for Editions, Purchase College
Los paraísos perdidos Typescript, hand-lettered titles, illustrations, and decorative border mimeographed on individual leaves of grained white and brown papers and yellow rag paper. Endpapers and liner following second t.p. are white tissue paper. Stapled at left margin and glued to brown Kraft paper wrappers. Illustration on wrappers appears also on folded leaf inserted through slot in blank leaf preceding first t.p.. Decorated colored-paper cutouts are mounted on wrappers. Front wrapper has a moveable set of portraits on folded white paper, some with colored paper cutouts, mounted inside a wooden 'frame.' The book is tied horizontally with a heavy red cord with a decorated-paper 'padlock' on one end. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Consta de cien ejemplares ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 57, with heavy green cord tied around. LC has copy no. 6. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Los puentes abiertos : literatura matancera 1813-1844 Mimeographed reproductions of typescript and decorative borders on individual leaves of coarse light brown and medium brown papers glued at left margin to black construction-paper wrappers and tied with a heavy cord. Text is reproduced in columns on both sides of leaves; illustrations are mimeographed or photocopied. Wrappers have 3 leaves, including an overlay, and are decorated with mounted paper cutouts, reproductions from a 19th-century Matanzas newspaper, earth from places associated with poets Juan Francisco Manzano and Plácido, and stems from a plant at the former home of poet José Jacinto Milanés. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autor ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 199. LC has copy no. 146. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • Martínez Carmenate, Urbano, 1953-
  • Trujillo, Yohan Enrique
  • Ediciones Vigía
Luz ya sueño Poems. Part of a collection of handmade books, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Typescript with handwritten titles and initials mimeographed on individual leaves of white rag paper with mimeographed border; preliminaries, index, and colophon are illustrated with drawings and mimeographed on a variety of brown papers; light blue tissue paper endpapers. Stapled at left margin and glued to brown paper wrappers. Wrappers are illustrated with collages of mimeographed and painted paper cutouts, colored tissue paper, and hemp cord. This book has no cord for hanging. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autor ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 7, unsigned. LC has copy no. 139. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Vitier, Cintio, 1921-2009
  • Ediciones Vigía
LV Louis Vuitton logo Artist's book offering ruminations on the concepts of fashion, style, elegance, and good taste. The Louis Vuitton logo is printed in gold ink on the cover, with black satin ribbon binding. 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.
  • Dimmer, Sean
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