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Crónica de Tollan

Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Ratona Cartonera

Found cardboard recycled as book cover boards. Variable edition with unique hand embellishment. Title and author name hand-painted in yellow over background scene of a human figure sitting on a green shore looking out to a blue ocean with black boat figures and black buildings and hill on the skyline off in the distance with orange sky. Thin, blue string binds book. Back cover left blank with original cardboard.

Author: Illanes, Manuel
Date: 2014
Publisher: Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Ratona Cartonera
Language: Spanish; Castilian
Collections: The Arts Collection; Latin American Cartonera Publishers Database
Description of Original: Height: 29 cm.; Width: 23 cm.; Depth: 2 cm.
Subjects: Small presses — Mexico — Specimens; La Ratona Cartonera; Artists' books — Mexico — Specimens; Publishing — Mexico — Independent publishing houses; Corrugated board bindings (Binding); Mexico — Literature — Poetry — 21st century; Technique — Freehand painting; Technique — Freehand lettering; Editoriales cartoneras; Mexico
Original: Catalog Record
Location of Original: University of Wisconsin—Madison. Libraries. Department of Special Collections : CA 16669m no. 10
For Staff: METS