Dragon Rebound

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Who owns a copy?

#	Owner	Printer	S/L
A	Randall Flagg	Arcata Hawkins	147
B	Br!an	Arcata Hawkins	-
C	ICry4Oy	Arcata Fairfield	-
D	firemonkey66	Arcata Fairfield	165
E	George at C-Springs	Arcata Fairfield	7
F	jsmcmullen92	Arcata Hawkins	589
G	AstroDad	Arcata Fairfield	965
H	wolfehr	Haddon	-
I	cit74	Haddon	624
J	becca69	Arcata Hawkins	164
K	Sentinel	-	-
L	Beverly Marsh (sold)	Haddon	-
M	StroppyGoblin	Arcata Fairfield	69
N	needfulthings	Arcata Fairfield	195
O	jcmanske	Arcata Hawkins	8, 104
P	-	-	-
Q	-	-	-
R	east-tennessee	Haddon	-
S	zelig	Haddon	-
T	HONKYTONKSMASH	-	-
U	ke7285	Haddon	956
V	Tommy	Haddon	-
W	-	-	-
X	-	-	-
Y	kingfan24	Haddon	-
Z	ruderabbit	-	-
RC	Randall Flagg	Haddon	-
RC	Haven	Haddon	-
RC	David Palladini	-	-
RC	-	Arcata Fairfield	-

Arcata Hawkins	5
Arcata Fairfield	7
Haddon	10

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I have been working on this project for quite a few months now, and I want to share the details with you guys.

As some of you know, The Eyes of the Dragon was my first King book and it's what got this crazy ride started for me back in 1987. I wanted to do something to pay homage to the book that had such an impact on my life.

It has been quite a process to get to this point in the project as I'm a great procrastinator, and it has also required a huge amount of time. More than I expected at the outset.

My plan is to rebind 24 copies of the Viking 1st trade edition of The Eyes of the Dragon, with 20 being made available to forum members who are interested. There will be 10 of each style and I won't plan on making any more, so it will be a limited rebound edition.

There will be two different bindings, both full leather. Prototypes pictured below.

Rebind #1:
Full leather binding using a textured leather to resemble the look of alligator skin. Raised bands on the spine with gold lines. Hand marbled endpapers and machine woven silk headbands with red and green striping. The final book will have the title and author printed on the spine. Custom cloth slipcase.



Rebind #2:
Full leather binding using genuine cayman skin on the boards and cowhide leather for the spine. Raised bands on the spine with gold lines. Hand marbled endpapers and machine woven silk headbands with red and green striping. The final book will have the title and author printed on the spine. Custom cloth slipcase.



A note on the prototypes:

The images above are small prototypes that my bookbinder made so that we have an idea on the overall aesthetic. The final binding will be more refined in terms of quality, and each book will be unique due to the differences in leather textures, etc.

This will give you an idea on the size of these prototypes. I suppose we can call these rebinding proofs!



Part 2 will follow. There's still more to the plan involving David Palladini, the original artist, and I'll post details on that soon.

Hope you guys like the idea and I look forward to your comments!