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Collection: The 4th DeGolyer Competition
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Alotta
Borges’ eyes have been chosen from the line drawing for a unifying element of the content and the cover. The “eyes” would be cast and covered with leather and attached to the cover. The stamped and foiled ambigram on the back is symbolic of literary…
Barber
Full leather, English style binding over laced-on boards in beige Harmatan Goatskin. End sheets would be hand-marbled paper with a leather doublure. Hand-sewn silk headbands in beige, brown and green to match the leather and end sheets. The cover…
Fox example
Full dark green and alum-tawed goatskin dyed with gold and palladium leaf and colored foil tooling. The center page is endpapers laminated together with foil tooling. Head colored and gilded center pleat in the binding and the center page. Sewn with…
Thomas example
Sewn onto wooden dowels. A threaded hollow steel rod connects two redwood hexagons that function as lids or covers. The “book” has a hexagonal slipcase with six panels featuring copies of the original book’s cover attached to a redwood base.…
Bruce
The design would attempt to reflect symbolically the literary references to life paths, growing mazes and the garden of forking pathways. The pathway would be raised to symbolize literary directions. It would be divided to show philosophical…
Geigel example
Full leather binding in the French technique with three strips of onlaid leather in different colors and lengths and an inlaid disc of lapis lazuli on the upper right corner of the front cover. Edge-to-edge grey leather doublures with the first and…
Tapley example
Sewn on tapes and forwarded as a Brockman Concave Spine Binding, tab and slot board attachment. Head gilt and colored. Covered in two colors of goatskin, title inlaid on spine, boards tooled in gilt and foil, back inlaid with eggshell lacquer and…
Cordeiro
Cover tells a story of all stories yet to be told through rounded spines of leather with gold and blind-tooled cords and labels. An embossed labyrinth would weave from the back to the front covers. Within would be letter press printed heavy…
Fox
Full dark brown goatskin with insets of parchment manuscripts, and onlays of native dyed goatskin with blind and gold tooling. Full leather endpapers produced using the same techniques would complement the front and bottom boards. The endbands would…
Geigel
Full leather binding in the French technique, with a leather onlay extending from the top corner of the rear cover over the spine and widening towards the top corner of the front cover. The inside covers would be finished in a grey leather…
Hanmer
The design is inspired by the theme of duality woven through Ficciones, and by Borges’ later reminiscence of childhood. Bound in yellow goatskin, with backpared onlays of pale yellow and black, the title stamped with custom die. Endsheets of Ingres…
Ingalls
The proposed design reflects the specific idea of the warping of reality. Sieved through simplicity, lines become representational. The cover depicts the warp with “FICCIONES” and “BORGES” flanking it down the spine, all characters being blind…
Barber example
Full blue goatskin over laced on boards. End papers and doublures of Japanese chiyogami. Hand-sewn silk headbands. Leather onlay, hand tooled verses with India ink, acrylic paints and gold foil stamping. The design represents God's word from creation…
Jackson
The design for Borges’ Ficciones is suggested by the mysterious encyclopedia described in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” The volume number is a hint from the infinite “Library of Babel.” English fine binding in full yellow goatskin with recessed…
Kibby
Full leather binding in burgundy kangaroo skin using the French joint technique. Figures made of onlaid indigo goatskin with acrylic ink and hand-dyed calfskin with a crackle finish. Double headbands of blue and gold leather. Title and author would…
Lawrence
Fine binding in full yellow goatskin with onlays of dark, emerald, and lime green goatskins. All edges colored to match yellow leather; double-core silk headbands; blackened tooled title; decorative papers by Catherine Levine; drop-spine box. The…
Jackson example
Full purple goatskin with black and silver leather onlays. Blind-tooled title on spine. Platinum-tooled stars and Hale-Bopp Comet with UFOs on the front board. In the recessed center is a glow-in-the-dark alien reminiscent of that worshiped by the…
Bruce example
Case binding with rust-orange goatskin leather. Multi-colored onlaid leathers are incorporated on to the raised body of the raven designed by the artist to wrap around the surface of the book. A faceted citrine is set as the raven's eye. A black…
Kibby example
Full calf-leather binding hand-dyed by the binder, with leather onlays, gold foil stamping and pearlescent acrylic paint. The cover scene illustrates the Lorelei legend. Leather joint construction with marbled paper by Catherine Levine. Hollow back…
Cordeiro example
Green chagrin leather over boards with raised profile and ear motif, with various tan leather inlays; two raised bands; top and bottom edges speckled.
Lawrence example
Fine binding in full terra cotta goatskin sewn on raised cords and bands. Plumb bob of turquoise, onyx, and moonstone set in sterling silver by Steven Jay Coben; gold tooled line, blacked tooled arc and title; all edges colored; embroidered silk…
Sobota
Triple cover board, Sobota’s binding structure. Leather-tooled double headbands. Silver multi-metallic top edge. Boards covered in dark blue paper made of leather-maché, light blue French calfbox, with the title in relief, gold tooling and…
Spitler
Mirrors and towers recur in Borges’ Ficciones, and provide the inspiration for this design. A profile of a phrenology head (mapping the mind) is seen in a mirror that also reflects a burning tower from the back board. Dark blue leather sets off the…
Tapley
Head gilt before sewing on tapes, forwarded as a concave spine binding, tab and slot board attachment. Spine covered in full goatskin with inlaid goatskin title. Boards of eggshell lacquer panels joined with forged patinated brass “lines”, goatskin…
Taylor example
Cased in two boards with Harmatan purple leather #29. Text paper is Arches text wove. Marbled endpapers by Kevin Taylor. Flexible purple leather spine colored with gold pigment paint and sewn with “x” stitching to leather covers.
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