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El burrito de Ramón

Córdoba, Argentina: Editora Cartonera Amarillo, Rojo y Azul

Found cardboard recycled as book cover boards. Variable edition with unique hand embellishment. Title and author handwritten in black ink on two separate pieces of paper stained in pastel colors. Paper with author name also includes the hand-drawn image of a donkey with blanket over back. Circle of paper stained pastel purple attached to front cover. Cardboard papers are glued to front and back covers to bind book, and are traced in black ink. Back cover left mostly blank with original cardboard except for outlines on book binding and small square of paper with publisher information.

Author: Braga, Any
Illustrator: Braga, Any
Date: ca. 2012-ca. 2017
Publisher: Córdoba, Argentina: Editora Cartonera Amarillo, Rojo y Azul
Language: Spanish; Castilian
Collections: The Arts Collection; Latin American Cartonera Publishers Database
Description of Original: Height: 27 cm.; Width: 21 cm.; Depth: 2 cm.
Subjects: Small presses — Argentina — Specimens; Editora Cartonera Amarillo, Rojo y Azul; Artists' books — Argentina — Specimens; Publishing — Argentina — Independent publishing houses; Corrugated board bindings (Binding); Argentina — Illustration — 21st century; Argentina — Illustration — 21st century; Technique — Freehand painting; Technique — Freehand lettering; Technique — Collages; Editoriales cartoneras; Argentina
Original: Catalog Record
Location of Original: University of Wisconsin—Madison. Libraries. Department of Special Collections : CA 16665s no. 3
For Staff: METS