S.O.S. AQUI NEW YORK.; Dibujos de Tomas Parra

New York: Antiediciones Villa Miseria, 1971. mimeographed pages, boards, covers bound using recycled corrugated paperboard with yellow thread binding, with inserted metallic fastener clip and thread as closure in right side of covers. SIGNED AND LIMITED EDITION OF 250. PRESENTATION COPY OF artists book by scarcely known poet and author Elena Jordana (Buenos Aires, Argentina1934, lived in Mexico between 1972-1994 - d. Buenos Aires 2008) who in the early 1970's published books bound with corrugated cardboard, printed on kraft paper (or estraza) and tied with sisal thread, with typography of rubber stamps, where it was necessary to count on heavy typewriters capable of perforating on the stencil (artistic decoration technique), in order to consign the data of title and authorship on the covers, in the aesthetic way of the university flyers. Each issue was personally distributed by the author herself, on her trips to Mexico, the United States and Argentina. The founder of Editorial El Mendrugo -one of the precursors of the 21st century Latin American cartoneras boom- she came up with the idea while living in New York, and had no resources to make books, publishing "cartonera" copies of Latin American authors bound with cardboard lids. CONTENTS: Desnudo neoyorkino -- Weekend neoyorkino – Los elegidos – Diálogo en Wall Street – Brindis – Epitafio para un ciudadano ejemplar. For more detailed information go to: http://www.archivopdp.unam.mx/index.php/46-almacen/almacen/4379-no-093-raros-y-curiosos-yolanda-segura-elena-jordana-escribir-lo-no-mandado
https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2019/02/06/elena-jordana-and-ediciones-el-mendrugo/
REF: "Libros de Artista", p. 144.