79 pages. 6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. A substantial collection of poems, most written in the 1990s. Designed and illustrated by Ariel López. The text is photocopied onto tan recycled paper with printed borders and full-page illustrations between the sections. The covers are stiff.....
Price: $250
10 leaves. 10-1/2 by 16-3/4 inches. One of 50 copies. The third (?) edition of this anthology of poems about Holguín, each with a distinct design. The poems included are "De mi ciudad" by Lalita Curbelo Barberán; "La ciudad" by Gilberto González Seik; "Calles de la infancia" by Mayda Pérez.....
Price: $400
Pergamino (folded broadside). 7 by 34 inches, unfolded. Edition size not noted. [Colección Clásicos]. This pergamino has three sections, the title, illuminated with white and yellow paint; the text of the poem, mimeographed from typescript in the center; and an image of an angel at the bottom. The design is by.....
Price: $350
11-1/4 by 18 inches. A poster for the press, consisting of repeated images of lamps, palm trees, and addresses. An uncommon piece of ephemera. Minor loss to one edge; with a few old folds.
Price: $150
Fifteen booklets, 5-7/8 by 8-5/8 inches, with a cover sheet, laid into a box made of cardboard covered with decorated paper. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Trébol. This work consists of short stories, in Spanish, by fourteen writers of Jewish or Arab descent, each printed as a separate chapbook. The.....
Price: $650
14 pages. 6-1/4 by 8-1/2 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. Poems, photocopied on white paper, with illustrations photocopied on Kraft paper. The cover has a sundial design with a cardboard gnomon rising vertically from the front. A handcolored cardboard sun has a rock, painted white, mounted on it.....
Price: $200
87 pages. 9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. The Ediciones Vigía literary magazine. Mimeographed from typescript with full-page illustrations all on papel de estraza (paper made from sugarcane waste). For this issue, a collection of labels from a 19th century Matanzas pharmacy were reproduced as facsimiles and are.....
Price: $400
145 pages plus a fold-out section of text mounted to one page. 5-1/2 by 8 inches in an enclosure measuring 7 by 7-1/2 inches at its widest points. An edition of 200 copies. No colección noted. Introduction by Olga Lidia Sosa Rodríguez. This might be considered an example of the self-help.....
Price: $500
154 pages. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Photocopied on white paper with dense black borders; illustrated ink-heavy abstract line drawings by Rolando Estévez. The "Encuentro, Memoria, Amor" issue, edited by Augustina Ponce, Gladys Mederos, and Rolando Estévez. At the front and back of the journal are reproductions.....
Price: $300
108 pages. 9-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Aforos. A particularly interesting Ediciones Vigía book. A play, set in Havana on New Year's Eve, photocopied onto white bond paper. The plot involves money and a gun, and the design reflects these elements. Eight pages at the front and back.....
Price: $500
92 pages. 7-1/4 by 9-1/2 inches. Colección Trébol. One of 200 copies. A collection of short stories photocopied from computer typescript onto white paper. The title of each story is printed on green handcolored paper affixed a reproduction of handwritten text. The cover design incorporates a paper sculpture of the left.....
Price: $300
51 pages. 6 by 9-1/2 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. A collection of about 30 recipes, the first half appear to be Catalan dishes as they are presented in Catalan and Spanish translation; the last section appears to be Cuban recipes as these are offered only in Spanish.....
Price: $250
9-1/4 by 5-3/4 inches (envelope). One of 200 copies. Colección Clásicos. Three poems, mimeographed from typescript on tan recycled paper, with a mimeographed cover sheet, in a printed envelope. The poems are folded twice and open to 8-3/4 by 10-1/2 inches; the cover sheet is 8-1/4 by 4-3/4 inches. The poems.....
Price: $250
15 pages. 6 by 9 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. Winner of the Premio América Bobia 2012. Text photocopied on white paper with illustrations by Marialva Ríos. The front cover is cutout in the shape of buildings and a fish head, revealing portions of a handpainted second.....
Price: $200
175 pages. 7 by 9-1/2 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Trébol. Introduction by Zaida Capote Cruz. Translated from the Italian by Dulce María Loynaz. This is a Spanish translation of the Italian novel Ella non rispose (1914), which Loynaz worked on between 1938 and 1941 and left unpublished at her.....
Price: $125
103, [4] pages. 7 by 9 inches. One of 200 copies. No colección noted. A rather curious—for Ediciones Vigía—first person collection of philosophical musings. Printed on white paper, with pasted-on chapter titles and reproductions of line drawings as illustrations. The covers have vibrant handcolored collages. Designed and illustrated by Manuel Darío.....
Price: $200
109 pages. 7 by 9-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Barquitos. A collection of poems appropriate for children written by 43 women writers. The text is printed on white paper. There are collaged and handcolored illustrations at the front and back of the book and on the covers. The index.....
Price: $125
97 pages. 8-1/4 by 11 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Premio. A study of a Cuban woman who published her memoirs in the late 1920s and whose writings offer considerable insight into upper class intellectual life in Matanzas in the decades around 1900. This book won the Premio de Investigación.....
Price: $125
44 pages. 6-1/4 by 10 inches. An edition of 1500 copies. Colección Graff. An edition of some of Martí's most popular poems, which were first published in New York in 1882. This edition, co-issued by two Matanzas publishers, is described on the colophon as an "industrial y artesanal" book. Indeed it.....
Price: $350
53 pages, printed on odd-numbered pages. 7-1/4 by 9-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. An essay, printed on a dot-matrix printer, about Medardo Vitier, a writer from Matanzas who was the father of Cintio Vitier. The text is illustrated with digital reproductions of old photographs and illustrations. Designed.....
Price: $200
113 pages. 6-3/4 by 8-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Paseo. Poems and prose by 20th-century authors mimeographed from typescript on coarse brown paper. The book is illustrated with decorated green and white paper cutouts as well as mounted photocopies of photographs by Olivia Manning, printed by Editorial Praxis in.....
Price: $250
26 pages. 9-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. Literary criticism; text mimeographed from typescript, with a mimeographed reproduction of a portrait of Paz. The size of this book suggests some interesting questions about its manufacture as the dimensions of the sheets (9 inches wide) exceeds the standard.....
Price: $350
29 pages, plus an attached pergamino (scroll) illustration. 7-1/2 by 11 inches; the scroll unrolls to 6-1/2 by 18 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. Odios falsos is both a significant literary work and an important marker in the development of Ediciones Vigía and Rolando Estévez as book.....
Price: $750
49 pages. 6-1/4 by 8-3/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Aforos. A musical play set in a Havana cabaret; printed on white paper reproducing a border drawing of dressing-room lights by Rolando Estévez, who also designed the book and the collaged illustrations. The cover is embellished with handcoloring and.....
Price: $200
Pergamino (folded broadside). 7 by 6-1/2 inches; unfolding to 23 inches. Edition size not noted. An announcement for an exhibition of drawings by Estévez held in March 1996 at the Centro de Arte Matanzas, Sala Polivalente. The pergamino has three sections, all mimeographed on Kraft paper. The upper portion includes the.....
Price: $1,000
