In love the smell of fine goatskin...
In love the smell of fine goatskin...
The feel of special endpapers....
Kind of sounds like some weird sex fetish...
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The Betts editions were not only trimmed (page block cut down), but the artwork was "randomly" placed.
Ahhhhhhhh.
Goatskin...
What ya got there buddy?
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
R.I.P. Mr. (or Mrs.) goat.
I'm sure if there is intelligent life somewhere out there in the universe, they are wise enough to stay away from us.
And the people bowed and prayed, to the cell phone god they made...
Coming soon.
Shipping notice received.
It arrived. 12 pounds 4 ounces.
“Perhaps I am simply a madman who dreamt of being sane for a little while.”
— Roland Deschain
In the past, as an Homage to the Betts bound books, we went with plain slipcases. I left it to the binders imagination, but here is what he came up with:
(The pic doesn't provide good scale as the slipcase is over 14" tall)
Nice. Has a ‘coffin’ feel to it.
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
Classy!
That is very cool. How many rebound Salem’s do you have, RF?
Here is the spine of the slipcase:
I chose a distressed Italian goatskin that is black/purple/green, and is rough to the feel. It's how I would imagine Barlows skin looking when one opened his casket.
Closeup shows texture:
I wanted the endpapers to look like blood corpuscles:
I like it. That leather is very interesting. Endpapers are striking. Nice work!
Ive never seen a leather finish like that before. I like it a lot.
"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
The binding is beautiful and unreal. Looks like eyes in the endpapers.
You can't be aloof until you advertise.
Nice job! Signed RF?
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
Really dig the distressed goatskin. Looks great
That is truly magnificent. That's gotta be the best custom bound SL yet. Congrats on a really stunning binding. Did it meet, or surpass your expectations? The vision you had of it at the start?