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Collection: The 4th DeGolyer Competition
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Clamshell box and cover, built in three pieces. Original hand-dyed bookcloth by binder used inside box and quarter bind, elsewhere Cialux evergreen cloth. Binding is traditional codex, with linen thread and tapes, endpapers are deep green Hahnemuhle…
Wood
Binding sewn with linen cords and tapes. Text block with mull attached to a three-piece cover using Canapetta eggshell bookcloth. The two halves with contrasting color sides, Canapetta red and Canapetta blue. Inlay accents of stylized labyrinths,…
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.…
Thomas
In “The Library of Babel,” Borges writes: “The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps an infinite, number of hexagonal galleries, with enormous ventilation shafts in the middle. . .” This concept is inspiration…
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.
Taylor
Harmatan purple leather #29, marbled endpapers, endbands. Front board will be embroidered labyrinth of four-ply waxed golden yellow thread. Bottom board will be embroidered empty room, the labyrinth inspired by “The Garden of Forking Paths.” The…
Spitler example
Special set of sheets presented by author to Spitler for design binding. Full gold Chieftain goatskin, leather onlays, blind and gold tooling, pochoir acrylics. Ancient fruit, fig and pomegranate represent the Garden of Eden as a snake crosses the…
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…
Sobota example
Sobota’s box binding structure with doubled boards and a middle opening. Green, blue, and brown goatskin. Application of leather and colored Japanese paper. Hand printing in blue. Gold tooling. Roughly-sewn headbands depict ship ropes.
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…
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…
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…
Ingalls example
The binding reflects the style and techniques proposed for Ficciones including a linear cover design, leather doublure and flyleaf, blind tooling throughout, bound in the French technique. The design is the journey from nothing to nothing on the…
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…
Hanmer example
The design echoes a cartoon from the text. Full dark blue Harmatan goatskin, backpared onlays of various blues and greens, and black foil tooling. Marbled endsheets by Cris Takacs, leather joint. Sewn endbands of dark green and dark blue silk.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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