Description:

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).