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Caine example
Quarter leather orange goatskin, marbled paper boards with vellum tipped corners, writing pen and title label attached. Gold-tooled title on spine.
Jones
Jones's design is based upon the idea of the river representing freedom and escape for Huck and Jim. The barbed wire represents the constant threat to that freedom with the river as the only way out. Split-board construction with hollow back,…
Jones example
Resewn on three cords. Full red Harmatan goatskin with onlays and tooling. Custom leather and silk box.
Lawrence
The binding will consist of split board binding of Sokoto native-tanned goatskin over shaped boards and spine; lap-link sewing over tapes utilizing existing sewing stations; reverse-bead primary headbands of linen, secondary decorative embroidery in…
Leutz
Flax cords will be used to re-sew the binding into existing holes and will be used to "lash" the raft onto the cover boards. Raft of brown goatskin leather covered boards with appearance of wood. Edges decorated with graphite with blind-tooled lines…
Leutz example
Book bound in two-three board binding structure, developed by Jan Sobota with purple French chagrin leather over raised design with attached objects, tooled top edge, sewn silk headbands, doublure and flysheet are copies of Barry Moser's…
Reid-Cunningham
Reid-Cunningham sees a darker America described in Huckleberry Finn. He will bind Huckleberry Finn in black calfskin boards and doublures, with graphite edges, black Bugra flyleaves, silk doublescore endbands, and gold and blind tooling and titling.…
Reid-Cunningham example
Bound in alum-tawed goatskin with boards lined with Formica. Roma endsheets. Sewn double-flexible on linen cords. Edges sprinkled with black and red ink. Reverse bead primary endbands. Red and black silk doublecore secondary endbands. Alum-tawed…
Sobotova
Triple cover board binding structure, leather headbands with dark brown and beige onlays, edges painted dark brown and beige imitating wood engraving technique. Dark brown Harmatan goatskin for the top cover, beige goatskin for the middle boards, and…
Stackpole
Dark blue Niger goatskin to portray the river, with the spine grain on the spine of the book, flowing down the center of the binding from a distant horizon line where the river meets the sky. Dark green Niger goatskin emphasizing the contours of the…
Stackpole example
Full leather tight-joint style binding. Fine grain dark blue goatskin "sky" across top of binding; spine and part of both boards covered in navy blue Niger goatskin, with induced wrinkles signifying the river; rest of boards covered in dark green…
Sullivan
The book will be disassembled and reassembled in the three-board structure method. It will be sewn with thick linen thread on Tamieband tapes. The inner and outer boards, doublure, and cover onlay will be shades of blue Harmatan goat leather. There…
Sullivan example
This case-bound book was disassembled and reassembled in the three board structure method (which includes a hollow-tube spine) introduced by Jan Sobota. It was sewn with thick linen thread on Ramieband tapes. All three boards, doublure, and onlay…
Takacs
The two shades of calf represent two colors of skin. Moser plates will be pressed into the dampened lighter calf to make the images. The red leather inlay is the Mississippi. Red is blood and race which branches like the story. The line disappears on…
Takacs example
Bradford was a member of the “Order of the Blue String” of the Society of the Garrett, Gotham, 1815. Endpapers and inlays are woodblock prints depicting the secret script of the “Society” and the Knight of the Folding-Stick, a creature fashioned from…
Thomas
The description of the raft and life on the river, as Huck and Jim floated downstream, called to Peter Thomas' creative imagination.The book will be bound as a raft-like structure. He had previously explored the concept of binding unsewn books by…
Thomas example
Walnut veneered wooden tubes lashed together using imitation sinew, tubes then attached to river flotsam (sticks and planking) and other found objects (including a miniature facsimile copy of the first edition of Huckleberry Finn) added to the deck,…
Wait
Black Harmatan goatskin, with colored leather onlays used for the design of the riverboat and raft. Gold stars will fill the sky and the water will be tooled in wavy blind lines. Brown foil will outline the raft and the front of the riverboat. The…
Wait example
Terra cotta Harmatan goatskin binding. Hand-decorated paste endsheets with a leather joint. Decorated with leather onlays, acrylic paint, colored foil, and gold tooling. The cross design is based on Wait's own artwork. The square crosses are the…
Levy
Pale blue leather over a K-118 binding with Molly's last words in gilt on the back. Doublures in muted brown tones. Relief panels in multicolored frames. Headbanks in three colors sewn into the text. Winner: 2000 DeGolyer Award for American…
Levy example
Full dark brown calf over a K-118 binding. Boards have a recessed dark green morocco border with corners inset with green jasper stones. Doublures of multicolored onlays depict books.
Glaister
Design reflects an exploration of depth and complexity of language and its rhythm and pattern. Overall binding design is monochromatic with sculptural components. Five panels stretch across the planes of the binding, with rhythmic sets of slots. When…
Glaister example
Full Niger goatskin binding with onlays of wood veneers and brushed copper and aluminum in recessed areas. Pop-away straps span across the spine. The top edge is partially gilt and its pastedowns and fly leaves are of cork paper.
Lallier
Full black morocco leather binding with recessed circular web of box calf, crunched pewter onlays, and blind lines. The bird design on the back cover represents the emblem of Dublin. 24 circles of box cald and pewter represent the 24 hours of June…
Stackpole
Full leather closed joint binding on nine raised bands with gray Niger goatskin, blind tooling and onlays of beige, warm gray and blue leathers. Titling in gold, cream paper endpapers with leather hinges, hand-sewn headbands, and gilt top edges. The…
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