Monthly Archives: October 2014

Using Collage as a Design Element on a Drop Spine Box

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  This custom clamshell box made for a copy of the Robert Frost biography (inscribed by Frost himself), A Swinger of Birches by Sidney Cox, carries the birch theme into the decorative elements on the front board and spine. The client and I early on in our discussions of the project decided upon a circular […]

quarter leather drop spine box with rounded spine using collage
dust jacket repair, dust jacket restoration

An Unusual Dust Jacket Restoration, Part 1

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This week, I have a dust jacket restoration that has some interesting problems. The Outsiders and Others by H.P. Lovecraft is a rare book and an even rarer dust jacket. Perhaps only 1,000 copies were produced and, of course, there are far fewer remaining today. Interestingly, we had another copy of this same book and […]