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Con Catulo de rodilla

Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Cartonera

Found cardboard recycled as book cover boards. Variable edition with unique hand embellishment. Text printed on pages of paper made from recycled materials that are gathered in signatures and then attached to cardboard with adhesive. Spine covered in bookcloth/muslin/crash. Title and author's name printed on orange paper running vertically along the front cover's spine. Found opening in cardboard incorporated into erotic image. Hand painted and bound by anonymous member of La Cartonera (Alicia Reardon, Dany Hurpin, Joseantonio Suárez, Nayeli Sánchez, Raúl Silva, Rocato y Valeria López).
Edition of 150. Number 142 of 150, serialized from 101 to 150. Last printing completed on November 10, 2008.

Author: Suárez, Joseantonio
Artist: López, Valeria
Book producer: Anonymous member of La Cartonera
Date: 2008
Publisher: Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Cartonera
Language: Spanish; Castilian
Collections: The Arts Collection; Latin American Cartonera Publishers Database
Description of Original: Height: 18 cm.; Width: 13 cm.; Depth: 2 cm.
Subjects: Small presses — Mexico — Specimens; La Cartonera; Artists' books — Mexico — Specimens; Mexico — Literature and society — 21st century; Popular culture — Mexico — Cuernavaca; Mexico — Literature — Poetry — 21st century; Publishing — Mexico — Independent publishing houses; Editoriales cartoneras; Mexico
Original: Catalog Record
Location of Original: University of Wisconsin—Madison. Libraries. Department of Special Collections : CA 16667 no. 16 c. 4
For Staff: METS