La palabra y su sombra
By: Alejo Carpentier ; diseño y dibujos de Rolando Estévez.
Contributors: Estévez Jordán, Rolando, 1950-; Ediciones Vigía.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Colección Venablos
Publisher: Ediciones Vigía
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Matanzas, Cuba
Language: spa
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Spanish language; Language and languages -- Style
Other titles: Nacional (Caracas, Venezuela)
Notes: Brief essays on language, originally published in the 1950s in Carpentier's column "Letra y Solfa" in the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional.
Typescript with manuscript titles, drawings, and borders mimeographed on individual leaves of coarse brown and smooth white paper. Stapled to (cardboard) boards, which are inserted into folded ends of white art-paper wrappers. Each section of text has a special illustrated t.p. mimeographed on white paper and hand colored with rose-colored paint. Front wrapper and folded end of back wrapper have mimeographed and colored-paper collage and mounted cutouts. A mimeographed, brown-paper cutout designed as a bookmark is laid in at p. 23. This book has no cord for hanging.
Part of a collection of handmade chapbooks, most with cords for hanging (literatura de cordel), published by Ediciones Vigía under the auspices of the Cuban Ministry of Culture.
Date of publication from colophon.
"Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados ..."--Colophon.
Pages [63]-[64] and last leaf are blank.
LC has copy no. 144.