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Collection: The 3rd DeGolyer Competition
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Bennett
Full leather binding with hand-sewn silk headbands. Included will be various black-to-brown-to-white goatskin onlay links. Onlay titling will be rendered in the style of Twain's writing. An inlaid vellum sheet of writing paper depicts Twain's writing…
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Three board structure with two-piece leather covering (one is suede to create a pictorial sunset). Inlaid agate, various green leather onlays and ascona line onlays were added in reds and oranges. There is onlay titling on the spine. The riverboat is…
Bruce
Modern cover, vivid in color, with leather and type over copper plates. The proposed binding will be leather bound with inset distressed copper circles, and the endsheets will be a bright color to match one of the leather circles. The color of the…
Bruce example
A combination of a variety of three-dimensional materials to create an artist binding that is sculptural in nature.
Caine
Quarter leather binding of red and brown goatskin, the boards covered in painted paper collage with vellum tips, the title on front board is gold-tooled. Embedded in the front cover will be a glass bottle containing actual Mississippi River water.
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.
Kamph
The design reflects the way in which Mark Twain layered his narrative to explore the relationships among ideas of adventures, literature of adventure, and adventure itself. Book will be in brown oasis goatskin and with an inlaid beige goatskin rope.…
Kamph example
Grey oasis goatskin with multicolored, gold-tooled onlays in a frieze design, based on an antique Malaysian pattern with figures taken from a text illustration. The volume is titled in gold on the spine with letters made up from small tools.…
Lallier
Full leather French technique using black French Morocco du Cap, raised boards delineating the river beds, creased pewter to represent the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers. Onlays of different colors used to represent the emotions…
Lallier example
Full Buffalo leather French-technique binding with edge-to-edge leather doublures and flyleaves. Pewter onlays over boards underlying the leather, silk embroidered headbands. The book was bound in 2001.
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…
Lawrence example
Split board binding of black and grey goatskin with silver goatskin onlay over shaped boards & spine; agate slice set into front board; lap-link sewing over tapes; silver & bronze goatskin headbands; and marbled paper by Catherine Levine.
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…
Ramsey
Front and back covers will represent a map of the central United States surrounding the Mississippi River Valley during the mid-1840s. Each state or territory is to be individually covered in one of fifteen colors of green leather. As the book is…
Ramsey example
Full, dark brown French Cape morocco binding with unique magnetic closure developed by binder. Front cover design with Garnett's Laboratory Press printer's device, also in blind on verso. Onlays of French Cape morocco and chagrin leathers with paste…
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…
Sobota
The binding structure is a triple cover board, with hand sewn headbands of green and blue silk, top edge painted brown. Navy blue goatskin for top cover and dark green goatskin for the doublures. Brass strips will be attached to the edges of the…
Sobota example
Triple cover board binding structure, gold leather headbands with top edge in gold, brown Harmatan goatskin for the top cover, gold leather middle, and dark blue goatskin for the doublures, flyleaves are blue suede leather. A cut through technique is…
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…
Sobotova example
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…
Spitler
Full dark blue Harmatan #12 goatskin in a traditional laced-on boards binding, paste paper ends will be created by the binder utilizing a leather joint construction, sewn headbands and tooled spine title. The proposed design captures the early…
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