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Collection: The 3rd DeGolyer Competition
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Triple boards attached binding, dark green goatskin for covers and doublures, beige goatskin for middle boards. Sculpted relief depicting ocean water movement. Hand-carved, hand-blown glass set within the front and back covers depicting two main…
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…
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