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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
By a thread Book is a continuous sheet folded in accordion style and is enclosed within its own folder. ... a reimagining of the biblical story of Queen Esther and that of Scheherazade of A Thousand and One Nights. Lynne Avadenka wrote the text, designed the book structure and created the original drawings, using gouache, powdered graphite and letterpress printing. --Colophon. No. 14 in a limited edition of 300 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. MSU copy: Acquired by Development Office--Libraries, Computing, and Technology to honor Selma Hollander for her generous support of the MSU Libraries (2007). MSU copy: Copy no. 60 of 300. Signed and dated. MSU copy:
  • Avadenka, Lynne
  • Land Marks Press
Canción antigua a Che Guevara Poem. Mimeographed reproduction of handwritten text and drawings on individual leaves of grained white, brown, and sand-colored papers stapled at left margin and glued to brown paper wrappers. Text of poem is on a longer, folded leaf with a mimeographed border. Mounted paper cutouts include yellow and orange paper. Endpapers are black tissue paper. Wrappers have decorated-paper collages, hemp cord on front. 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, publisher, and series name from colophon. Date of publication surmised from date of artist's other work and anniversary of death of Che Guevara. Consta de cien ejemplares, numerados, iluminados a mano ... --Colophon. LC has copy no. 30. MSU has copy no. 1.
  • Aguirre, Mirta, 1912-
  • López, Ariel, 1978-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Cantar del alma que se goza de conocer a Dios por fe Poem in typescript with manuscript title, drawings, and deocrative border mimeographed on ragged-edged brown paper banner tied at top with cord. Hand painted 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 surmised from other items in shipment. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591
  • Ediciones Vigía
Cántico de la huella Written in cursive on two long strips of brown wrapping paper with a yarn handle at the top; issued in an illustrated, hand-made envelope. Este poema -- leído por su autora en un recital en El Gato Tuerto del Vedado, en un verano habanero de 1964 -- había permanecido inédito hast que lo entregó a Ediciones Vigía, de Matanzas. Diseño y dibujos especialmente realizados para esta edición por el artista Rolando Estévez, diseñador principal de las Ediciones Vigía. Part of a collection of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Esta edición de Cántico de la huella de Nancy Morejón consta de doscientos ejemplares esgrafiados, numerados iluminados a mano, totalmente manufacturados por las Ediciones Vigía de Matanzas, Cuba. MSU copy: Has copy no. 134.
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Morejón, Nancy, 1944-
  • Ponce, Augustina
  • Ediciones Vigía
Carta abierta a Charles Bukoswski Consta de doscientos ejemplares manufacturados y iluminados a mano por las Ediciones Vigía, en el Colección del San Juan. Para su confección fueron usados papeles de diferentes texturas, colores, y gramajes --Colophon. Text within collaged and printed stiff-paper folding self-case with cutout on front. Premio América Bobia 2006. MSU copy: Has no. 184 of limited edition.
  • Hodelín Santana, Hugo
  • Ríos, Marialva
  • Ediciones Vigía
Caza perdida Poem. Typescript mimeographed on brown paper banner decorated with mounted paper cutouts with almost full-length mimeographed and hand-painted illustration. Mounted collages include hand-lettered title, author's signature, mimeographed colophon, and a small wood-veneer quiver of paper arrows. Laced at top with white yarn. 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 consta de doscientos ejemplares ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 195. LC has copy no. 79, signed by the author. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • Fajardo, Noel
  • Marcos de Armas
  • Quintero, Aramís
  • Ediciones Vigía
Celare navis y otros poemas Mimeographed reproduction of typescript, hand-lettered titles, drawings, and borders on individual leaves of coarse brown paper and white bond with mounted decorated-paper cutouts. Endpapers are light blue tissue paper and light brown tracing paper. Wrappers are covered with black tissue paper and have multi-colored, multi-textured paper collages, including a crepe paper 'toga.' The cover title and illustration are paper and synthetic 'foam' cutouts mounted on a died cheesecloth veil that stretches from the back wrapper across the fore-edge and the front wrapper. The veil's free end is tied to a wooden dowel. 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. Diseño y dibujos de Rolando Estévez --Colophon. Publication information from colophon. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, firmados por su autor ... --Colophon. LC has copy no. 146. Appears to lack author's signature. MSU has copy no. 78, without author's signature. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drews (2000).
  • Arrufat, Antón, 1935-
  • Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-
  • Ediciones Vigía
Celebrities : in memory of Margaret Dumont, dowager of the Marx Brothers movies (1890-1965) Poems. One hundred forty copies ... Twenty-five copies are in a special case --P. [1]
  • Peters, Robert, 1924-
  • Sombre Reptiles
Centric Consists of circles in various media and materials mounted on continuous sheet of cream paper, folded to form 8 p.; first and last page pasted to black lining leaves; bound in painted wooden boards with raised metal centerpiece. Publisher's location from ordering information. Published in an edition of 13 copies.
  • Davidson, Laura
  • L. Davidson
Cifra de la Granada Edición especial en el Aniversario Cincuenta de ORIGENES --Cover. Typescript mimeographed on coarse brown paper, with hand-lettered titles; line drawings on leaves of off-white bond with hand-colored details. Stapled and glued to brown paper wrappers, with illustrated and hand-colored mounted paper cutouts. Tied with twine. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano, firmados por su autor .... Edición de Laura Ruiz Montes ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 9, unsigned.
  • Méndez, Roberto, 1958-
  • Ediciones Vigía