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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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El Arte de cocinar : recetas de cocina catalana y cubana Manufactured and illuminated by hand by Ediciones Vigía in its Colección del Estero. Produced jointly with IX Brigade de Cooperación de la Universidad de Lleida, Cataluña. Design and drawings by Norlys Ortega Ruiz. Cover made of recycled industrial papers covered with red textured paper ending in buff colored paper circles on front and back cover with two pieces of colored yarn attached to each circle. Limited ed. of 200 copies. Includes index. MSU copy: Has Ejemplar no. 181; of 200.
  • Ortega Ruiz, Norlys
  • Ediciones Vigía
El cartel : II edición especial en el aniversario cientotreintaitres del Teatro Sauto, Matanzas, 6 de abril de 1996. Numero suelto. Ediciíon especial de este periódico ... Publicación que circulaba en el siglo XIX ... Se publican en este periódico los anuncios de las funciones más importantes del mes de abril de 1996, además del programa integro del día seis. Teatro Esteban was the original name of the Teatro Sauto. Edición: Alfredo Zaldívar --Colophon. Reproduced italic typescript on coarse brown paper with hand-lettered headings, with reproduced text on mounted white bond (p. 2) and decorative elements with hand-colored details. Consta de doscientos ejemplares ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 88. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
  • Zaldívar, Alfredo, 1956-
  • Ediciones Vigía
El cartel : III edición especial en el aniversario ciento treinta y cinco del Teatro Sauto, Matanzas, 6 de abril de 1998. Numero suelto. Ediciíon especial de este periódico ... Publicación que circulaba en el siglo XIX ... Se publican en este periódico los anuncios de las funciones más importantes del mes de abril de 1998, además el programa integro del día seis. Teatro Esteban was the original name of the Teatro Sauto. Realización: Ediciones Vigía --Colophon. Reproduced italic typescript on coarse sand-colored paper with decorative borders and element with hand-colored detail. MSU has copy no. 140. Part of a collection of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. <author unknown>
  • Ediciones Vigía
El cielo imaginario Poems. Mimeographed reproduction of typescript, hand-lettered titles, and drawings on individual leaves of white bond and coarse brown papers with mounted colored-paper (mostly green) cutouts. Endpapers are black tissue paper and light brown tracing paper. Stapled, glued to brown paper wrappers, and tied with heavy green cord. Wrappers have decorated-paper collages. Front wrapper has a green foil crescent moon. Part of a collection of handmade chapbooks, 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, esgrafiados, iluminados a mano, firmados por su autor ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 191. MSU copy: gift of Jeanne Drewes (2000).
  • Ariel, Sigfredo, 1962-
  • Naranjo, Violeta
  • Ediciones Vigía
El contar de los contares ... Doscietos ejemplares manufacturados e iluminardos a mano ... [Ejemplar] 090. Brief stories and poems. Each story or poem within illustrated border. A full-page illustration faces each page of text. Text and illustrations printed on white paper. Thin brown paper endsheets have mounted cut-out illustrations. Bound in brown paper wrappers with mounted cut-out illustrations. Laid in is a bookmark made of a folded and glued yellow paper strip with a brown paper cut-out boat glued on top. Illustrated title page printed on heavy brown paper.
  • Dueñas, Javier
  • González Gutiérrez, Mirtha
  • Ediciones Vigía
El flautista en la cruz Poem. Typescript on coarse brown and sand-colored paper, with black tissue endpapers, stapled and glued to cardboard wrappers and tied with taupe yarn. Wrappers have mounted illustrated paper cutouts and titles with torn edges. Front wrapper has twigs with yarn wound about them, affixed in the position of a cross. Back wrapper illustration has hand-colored details. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano ... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 96. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
  • Díaz Gómez, Yamil
  • Poujaud García, Igor
  • Ediciones Vigía
El gran padre Poems. Text printed on coarse brown paper, with title page, dedication, contents and some illustrations on grained sand-colored paper. Heavy wrappers covered in yellow paper, with affixed collages using various types and colors of paper as well as strips of apparent suede leather. Some color applied by hand. Limited ed. of 200 copies. One of a series of handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía.
  • Báez Andux, Ivet
  • Rodríguez Santana, Gaudencio, 1969-
  • Ediciones Vigía
El mar es un país Reproduced typescript and decorative borders on grained brown and sand colored papers. Reproduced hand-lettered titles, and drawings on mounted, white bond cutouts with hand-colored details. Glued and stapled to brown paper wrappers, with collages of mounted, colored paper cutouts, with hand-colored details. Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados, iluminados y totalmente manufacturados por las Ediciones Vigía... --Colophon. MSU has copy no. 57. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
  • Calero, Zenén, 1955-
  • Hernández Milián, Juan Luis, 1938-
  • Ediciones Vigía
El peregrino Poem. Diseño y dibujos originales ... de Yohan Enrique Trujillo --Colophon. 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. Esta edición consta de cien ejemplares numerados y firmados por su autor --Colophon. Black tissue paper mounted on front cover as background for collage of decorated paper cutouts, burlap, stones, and seeds. Decorated paper border mounted around text. Muslin sack is stitched with twine and decorated front and back with mounted paper cutouts. MSU has copy no. 27. LC has copy no. 77.
  • Bernal, Juan Eduardo
  • Trujillo, Yohan Enrique
  • Ediciones Vigía
El poeta perdido en el paraíso Reproduced on coarse brown and light brown papers; pages of text have reproduced decorative borders. Endpapers are white and black tissue paper. Stapled and glued to brown paper wrappers, and tied with white yarn. Wrappers have mounted, decorated paper collages on a black tissue paper background. MSU has copy no. 30. Handmade books published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture. Consta de cien ejemplares numerados, iluminados a mano .... --Colophon.
  • Hernández, Axiviades
  • Ortíz, María Esther
  • Ediciones Vigía