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the bookish farmgirl

Lesa Dowd
Bookbinding & Conservation

Custom Bookbinding Examples

Chicago by the Book
Caxton Club


Full leather binding in black goatskin. Sewn on four splayed cords
Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger, little Rown and Company, 1961, Boston

French-style binding sewn on
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri

Modified Bradel binding sewn onto five frayed cords. Decorati
Coming of Age
Studs Terkel

English- style Quarter leather binding with gold stamped label. Terra co
Stone Eye
Richard Taylor

Covered in full gray goatskin with feathered goatskin onlays in multiple c
The Thread That Binds
Pamela Leutz

Cross
Pictorial Websters
Johnny Carrera

Gebrochene rucken-style binding with olive green goatskin spine a
The Physicists
C.P. Snow, 1981
 
French-style full leather binding in black goatskin. Incised acryli
Designing the Mentoring Stamp
Lance Hidy
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow

French-style leather binding with four splayed cords lace
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

French-style full leather binding in black Harmatan goatskin. Black goats

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