Portillo de la Luz
Subtitle: cancionero mínimo
By: César Portillo de la Luz ; selección, transcripciones, dibujo musical y textos, Marta Valdés ; diseño y dibujos del artista Rolando Estévez ...
Contributors: Valdés, Marta, 1934-; Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-; Ediciones Vigía; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Colección Andante
Publisher: Ediciones Vigía
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Matanzas, Cuba
Language: spa
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Popular music; Spanish Songs
Notes: Part of a collection of handmade chapbooks, many with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.

Typescript with manuscript titles, decorative borders, and musical notation reproduced on white bond and coarse brown papers and tied through center fold with white, orange, and black yarn. Decorated white and yellow paper cutouts of a star and a fish dangle from yarn ends. Covers, preliminaries and some end leaves have mounted paper cutouts bearing titles and illustrations. Some hand coloring. Issued in a handmade brown-paper envelope with an oval cut out to reveal part of a hand-colored cover drawing, a portrait of a man and woman. A white paper ring, decorated with the book's title repeated in manuscript reproduction, encircles the envelope's oval opening.

Has decorated bookmark laid in: Edición especial por el aniversario ochenta del maestro César Portillo de la Paz.

"Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados"--Colophon.

LC has copy no. 8.