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Artists' Books

This guide will feature many of the artists' books available in UTSA Libraries Special Collections.

Digital Printing

Pancake Makeup is a concise history of the makeup of Aunt Jemima from her first appearance in print in 1895 to contemporary times and how her appearance changed to meet consumer demands.

Pancake makeup by Maryann J. Riker

Flip Books

Flip book; the first and fourth letters in the title appear backwards.

Revés by Paulina del Paso

Flip book--watch the tequila have its way and then watch it all again backwards.

Tequila by Santiago Melazzini

Letterpress

Book consists of a central box surrounded by rows of square pages on all four sides. To read the book the whole assembly must be lifted from the tray and placed on the center of the cloth.

A guide to higher learning by Julie Chen

Letterpress printed on paper towels.

It is bitter to leave your home : a true story depicted in typographic images by Romano Hänni

Single sheet book made from cotton paper made on a Tim Moore laid mould with watermarks hand-cut using Sure Stamp.

Modern-day watermarking by Helen Hiebert

Matchbooks with letterpress printed on the cover and on each matchstick.

Old flames mismatched: true stories of extinguished love by Catherine Michaelis

Tunnel book. Letterpress printed. Bound in paper over boards.

A solemn request by Amy Pirkle

Offset Lithography

Quarter-bound with illustrated paper over boards and cloth spine. Leaves are folded and glued at the spine to allow for a continuous image.

Heinz and Judy: a play by Janet Zweig