Dos leyendas del agua
By: compilaciones de los estudiosos Joan Amades, catalan, y Américo Alvarado, cubano ; diseño y dibujos de Ariel López González.
Contributors: Alvarado, Américo.; López, Ariel, 1978-; Ediciones Vigía.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Colección Barquitos
Publisher: Ediciones Vigía
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Matanzas, Cuba
Language: spa
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Water -- Spain -- Catalonia -- Folklore.; Water -- Cuba -- Matanzas -- Folklore.; Legends -- Spain.; Legends -- Cuba.; Folk literature, Catalan.
Notes: Typescript and drawings mimeographed on paper of various colors with mimeographed decorative border; green tissue-paper endpapers. The single gathering is tied with green and blue yarn to brown paper wrappers, which are illustrated with decorated-paper collages. Front wrapper has translucent pocket holding a samara or key fruit from a tree in the Parque de la Ciudadela in Barcelona and a folded, decorated-paper tag explaining the samara's significance.
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.
"Una leyenda catalana: Por qué el agua del mar es salada? Una leyenda cubana: La gaviota del San Juan"--Front wrapper.
"Consta de doscientos ejemplares numerados"--Colophon.
LC has copy no. 43.