Transcendental Train Yard: A Collaborative Suite of Serigraphs by Marta Sánchez and Poet Norma E. Cantú [Limited Edition, Signed]

[Austin, TX: S.i., 2008]. First, Limited Edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by the artist, this being copy no.29. Folio (51.5cm); large printed clamshell box, housing 10 colored serigraphs measuring 50.5cm x 38cm (19 7/8" x 15"), each numbered, signed, titled, and dated by Sanchez. Together with three additional serigraphed leaves: "A Contained Landscape, An Ambivalent Relationship: The Railroad and San Antonio's Mexican Colony," by Peter Haney; biographical matter for Marta Sanchez, including "Artist Statement: Transcendental train yards, and other stories of the heart;" biographical matter for Peter Haney and Norma Elia Cantú, along with "Poet's Statement." In the original silkscreened box, signed and numbered by Sánchez on the spine panel. Contents Fine; some bowing along the edges of the box lid, else as new, this being a copy directly from the artist's studio.

Collaborative work between two prominent Chicana artists, incorporating Cantú's poetry with Sánchez's artwork and based on the women's mutual experiences living near train yards along the Mexican-American border at various points of their lives. In a broader sense, the portfolio approaches the significance of both trains and train yards to the migration of Mexican immigrants as well as their centrality in Mexican-American labor.

Offered together with a copy of the First Trade Edition (2015), published by Wings Press in San Antonio. Oblong quarto (21cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xiv,33,[1]pp; illus. Signed by Sanchez on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $22.95). (Inventory #: 81638)