In the fall of 2022, Subterranean Press published a limited edition of Bliss, by Jeff VanderMeer. In the past, whenever Subterranean Press has released editions of VanderMeer’s work, they would release it in two states, a numbered edition, and an upgraded lettered edition. For Bliss, however, they only did the numbered. A few fans of Jeff and…
This is one of the more ambitious rebinds I’ve done to date. The book I worked from was a Viking first edition of Stephen King’s It. I hadn’t read it yet, and I definitely enjoyed delving into the fandom that surrounds the book and movies. The Specs: The spine was removed from the text block and…
My most recent project has been a side-by-side binding with my bookbinding mentor. Working on book blocks that were the same size, this allowed Jon to demonstrate the technique while allowing me something to mess up on. My copy is To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Jon’s is Doomsday Book. Both written by Connie Willis….
Here is a commission I took to rebind a first edition of Senlin Ascends. The first two books in the Books of Babel series were originally self-published, and those editions are harder to find. I was asked to rebind 2 copies with matching slipcases. I kept the original cover to use as a frontis. The…