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Lima: Sarita Cartonera

Found cardboard recycled as book cover boards. Pages of text stapled together and then glued to cardboard. Black book cloth (muslin, crash) covered spine, hand-lettered title and author's name in tempera paint. Printed in El camarote de mi hermano. Calle 5 Mz. F-1, Los Alamos de Monterrico, Surco, Lima.
Formato de encuadernado: Chunku. Hacedores de Cultura.

Author: Álvarez, Montserrat
Contributor: Bogado, Cristino, 1967-
Artist: La Rosa, Pepe
Artist: Muñoz, Diego
Artist: Marcos, Shylla
Artist: Santander, Liz
Designer: Vargas Luna, Jaime
Date: 2005
Publisher: Lima: Sarita Cartonera
Language: Spanish; Castilian
Collections: The Arts Collection; Latin American Cartonera Publishers Database
Description of Original: Height: 22 cm.; Width: 16 cm.; Depth: 2 cm.
Subjects: Small presses — Peru — Specimens; Sarita Cartonera; Artists' books — Peru — Specimens; Technique — Freehand painting; Technique — Freehand lettering; Peru — Literature — Fiction — 21st century; Paraguay — Literature — Fiction — 21st century; Peru
Original: Catalog Record
Location of Original: University of Wisconsin—Madison. Libraries. Department of Special Collections : CA 16666 no. 5
For Staff: METS