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Takacs

Title

Subject

bookbinding proposal

Description

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 the back cover, the “West,” where Huck goes at the end of the book. The author will take us there. The only word on the binding is the blind tooled “Cairo,” Jim’s goal. The story is told by Huck, but it is Jim’s story. The endpapers are the river churned by a paddlewheeler.

Creator

Takacs, Cris Clair

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

Rights

This work is protected by copyright law. No commercial reproduction or distribution is permitted. This file may be used for educational uses only, provided it is not altered in any way, and the copyright line is cited. (Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU).

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Book

Collection

The 3rd DeGolyer Competition

Citation

Takacs, Cris Clair, “Takacs,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed February 12, 2026, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2065.