First Edition. One of 100 copies of Neruda's translation of Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion and The Mental Traveller which were first published in 1934 in the Spanish literary journal Cruz y Raya. Neruda's translation of The Mental Traveller was one of the first translations of this Blake.....
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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.....
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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.....
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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.....
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9 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. A short prose piece about the arrival of Spaniards in Cuba and the destruction of the indigenous cultures there. The author is a professor of medicine in Matanzas. The text is photocopied on white paper. The chapbook.....
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14 pages. 6 by 11 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Clásicos. A single poem in Spanish with an accompanying English translation. The author is a late Chilean poet. Designed and illustrated by Elizabeth Valero Molina. Introduction by Héctor R. Rivero Martínez. OCLC: BLSTP CLU CRU CRU CUY DEIAI EYM FQG.....
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87 pages. 9 by 9-1/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. Poems printed on unbleached recycled paper, illustrated by Rolando Estévez with many reproductions of a series of drawings of figures in silhouette in front of a masonry wall. In his artist's note at the back, Estévez uses.....
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124 pages. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. An edition of 200 copies. An illustrated literary journal with prose and poetry, including contributions by Mabel Cuesta and José Kozer. The featured writer is the Havana painter and writer Loló Soldevilla (1901–1971), with a few excerpts of her prose and many reproductions of photographs.....
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![El inquilino de 111 [The Lodger in No. 111]. Eliseu Abreu Hernández](/pictures/thumb/306288_5.jpg?v=1612069401)
12 pages. 6-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches in a handmade paper bag with cloth handles, 10 by 13-1/2 inches. One of 50 copies. Colección Puente de Hierro. A poem in Spanish and English translation, winner of the Premio Digdora Alonso. The text is digitally printed on white paper. Design and calligraphy.....
Price: $500
![Hay tiempo aún [There's Still Time]. Delfín Prats](/pictures/thumb/306271.jpg?v=1612069396)
33 leaves. 12-1/2 by 13-3/4 inches. An edition of 100 copies, issued with at least two cover designs and typefaces. Poems, printed letterpress with the text set on a linotype. Bound Japanese-style. The paper is handmade from various plant and fiber sources. Six of the leaves have minimalist serigraphs made jointly.....
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27 pages. 6-3/4 by 9-1/2 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. Poems designed by Mayra Alpízar and Enrique Ramos, with illustrations reproducing lace designs by Mayra Alpizar. Winner of the 2000 Premio América Bobia. OCLC: BNCJM CRU CSL CUI CUZ DEIAI DLC DRB EEM EYM FQG FUG IQU NOC SNN.....
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![Cuando un poeta muere [When a Poet Dies]. Roberto Fernández Retamar](/pictures/thumb/306269.jpg?v=1612064255)
55 pages. 7-1/2 by 11 inches. An edition of 200 copies signed by the author. Colección Venablos. Poems, mimeographed from typescript on estraza (sugarcane waste) paper. With design and illustrations by Rolando Estévez. Most illustrations printed on estraza paper mounted on lighter-colored paper stock. Fernández Retamar is an important Cuban writer and.....
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93 pages. 10 by 12-1/2 inches. An edition of 200. The first issue of the literary journal of Ediciones Vigía, which opens with the manifesto for the press. The Revista, which continues to this day, offers typical content for a literary magazine—principally poetry and prose from a variety of writers, many.....
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![Hechizo del Vigía [The Spell of Vigía]. Juan Luis Hernández Milián](/pictures/thumb/306266.jpg?v=1612064252)
A folded broadside in an eight-panel folded paper enclosure. Unfolded, 5 by 21 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. An edition of this poem done in memory of the late poet. The design, illustrations, and calligraphy are by Rolando Estévez. The book incorporates paper collage, lace, and.....
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32 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches. One of 35 copies. Colección Puente de Hierro. Published as the winning entry of the tenth Premio Nacional de Poesía Digdora Alonso, a Cuban literary prize sponsored by Rolando Estévez. The text is photocopied onto white paper, with collage illustrations. An about-the-press page is collaged.....
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4 leaves. 6-1/4 by 13 inches. One of 30 copies. Colección Puente de Hierro. A poem, in Spanish and English translation, designed and illustrated by the author. Each version of the text is printed on a torn remnant of recycled paper, folded accordion style and glued horizontally to one side of.....
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4 pages (a single, folded sheet) in an envelope. 4 by 5-1/2 inches. The edition size is not stated, but it was perhaps as small as 10 copies. A chapbook with a single short poem, in English and Spanish translation, designed by the author. The poem, titled "The Angel and the.....
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12 leaves. 8-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches inserted into a handmade paper bag measuring 10 by 14-1/2 inches. Edition of 40 copies. Colección Puente de la Plaza. A collection of poems by Alonso (1921–2007), a noted Matanzas poet and teacher. This collection, designed and illustrated by Rolando Estévez, reproduces Estévez's handwritten copies.....
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[32] pages plus an illustrated pergamino. 6-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches. Edition of 40 copies. Colección Puente de Hierro. Poems in Spanish and French translation. Text laserprinted. The book has collage illustrations at the front and back, and long fold-out strips attached to the cover flaps which reveal the name of the.....
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![Yo, mi desconocida [From Me, My Mysterious One]. Digdora Alonso](/pictures/thumb/306244.jpg?v=1612069389)
One page (folding). 7-1/2 by 4-1/2 inches. Edition of 50 copies. Published October 11, 2014, soon after Rolando Estévez left Ediciones Vigía to form Ediciones El Fortín. The book is a single poem, reproducing Estévez's calligraphy on white paper. The text sheet is folded several times. The book is illustrated.....
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![El libro de los oficios [The Book of Jobs]. Renael González Batista](/pictures/thumb/306240.jpg?v=1612069387)
15 leaves in a shaped enclosure. Largest dimensions, 14 by 11-1/2 inches. Published in an edition of 100 copies. A book in the shape of a hat, with text leaves fitted into a pocket at the top. The text—13 poems, a title sheet, and an about the author page—is letterpress printed.....
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2 folded sheets in elaborately decorated paper covers. 7-1/4 by 13-1/4 inches. Edition of just 50 copies. Colección Clásicos. The front cover uses a showgirl design assembled from paper cutouts, feathers, mesh, and string. When the covers are opened, two paper flaps decorated like doors open to reveal nude figures (male.....
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55 pages. 7-3/4 by 10-1/2 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. Poems in Spanish and English translation. The book is designed like a table-top picture frame, with a paper stand on the back so the book stands up on its own. The colophon is printed on a......
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89, [8] pages. 9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches. An edition of 200 copies. The Ed. Vigía literary magazine. Mimeographed from typescript with full-page illustrations all on papel de estraza (paper made from sugarcane waste). Most illustrations with collage elements and handcoloring. The pergamino (folded broadside) is a poem by Cintio Vitier, signed.....
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73 pages plus an audio CD. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Andante. An artist's book celebrating music copyists, who are hired to produce neat copies from a composer's or arranger's manuscript, interpreting the composer's intentions. Among the Matanzas musicians highlighted are Sigfrido Anastasio Tortoló Carrillo; Sergio.....
Price: $125
