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Title Description Author Publisher
"Danilo y Dorotea"" : otra historia de amor" A play. Text and illustrations printed on white paper; illustrations hand-colored, some being mounted cut-outs. Thin brown paper title page and preliminaries have mounted hand-colored illustrations. Bound in heavy brown paper with mounted hand-colored illustrations, including cut-out figures of turtles Danilo and Dorotea that may be removed from their pond. Includes leaf with instructions for making a turtle toy using a gourd or a ball. MSU copy: Has no. 95 of limited edition.
  • Fernández, René, 1944-
  • Ediciones Vigía
--que pues lo imposible pido-- : cinco poemas del Siglo de Oro español Mimeographed reproduction of what appears to be Gothic letterpress on individual leaves of grained off-white, brown, and sand-colored papers with mimeographed borders. Stapled at left margin, attached to doubled brown paper wrappers, and tied with soft white and brown cord. Title pages and wrappers have cutouts and collages of colored and decorated papers, including some letterpress. Collage on front wrapper has a hammered copper detail. Each author's work has a special, black tissue paper t.p.. 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 cincuenta ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano... --Colophon. Page numbers are spelled out in Spanish. Leaf following p. [37] is blank. MSU as copy no. 31(treinta y dos). MSU copy: Gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
  • López, Ariel, 1978-
  • Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645
  • Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635
  • Ediciones Vigía
21 Limited ed. of 200 copies. Hand illuminated and completely manufactured by Ediciones Vigía in its Colección Barquitos (for children). Leaf is folded and inserted in a decorative band. Poema inédito del libro 'Ali Babá y las 40 ilusiones'. MSU copy:
  • Espino Ortega, José Manuel, 1966-
  • Ponce, Augustina
  • Salema, Rocío
  • Ediciones Vigía