Artist's Book Edition of a Collection of Latin American Writers of Jewish and Arab Descent
Delta de las arenas: Cuentos árabes, cuentos judios
Publication: Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2014.
Notes: One of the intriguing three-dimensional works from Ediciones Vigía, a collection of short stories by fourteen Latin American writers of Jewish or Arab descent, each printed as a separate chapbook and laid into a handmade paper box. This is an abbreviated edition of a collection that was first published in Houston in 2013.
The text is photocopied on white paper and stapled into paper covers, each with a distinct handcolored illustration by Mayra Alpízar Linares. The accompanying box is handmade and decorated with Stars of David and the crescent moon of the Ottoman empire.
The fourteen story chapbooks, plus a fifteenth with a prologue and biographies of each author, measure 5-7/8 by 8-5/8 inches; the cover sheet is slightly larger. The edition was 200 copies. Colección Trébol.
The intent of this design appears to have been to have the edges of the lid and the lower box meet neatly. The paper engineering challenge this posed, particularly when assembling the boxes with found materials, was considerable and not entirely successful.
OCLC: 922381398
Edition + Condition: Very good, with some small tears to the box corners. As with most copies of this book, the lid does not fit neatly on the lower box.
ISBN: 9789592402171
Item No: #306769
Price: $650