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Wow… MDT made me want to join the Folio Society… books going the way of vinyl– boutique and awesome pressings. http://www.foliosociety.com
Do it! Apparently I was once in a bookstore in San Diego that had a lot of these editions. The amount of eye candy was almost overwhelming; we literally just stood staring at a book of spines at one point for about five minutes, soaking it all in.
Cover of Maurice Vlaminck’s Poèmes & Bois Gravès. Paris, Editions de la Galerie Simon, (1921), via Bromer Booksellers.
“This binding, apparently made of a polycarbonate, features a kinetic design, both covers consisting of eleven interlocking gear wheels, variously colored with auto paint, housed within a multi-colored frame which has been fashioned into an intrictate pattern of grids and circles. At either fore-edge is a small notch exposing the edge of one of the gears. A turn of this wheel sets all the gears turning in unison, their various colors in motion behind the complicated pattern of the frame, for an almost dizzying effect. The boards are fastened to the spine with metal hinges so that the covers move freely and the gears are easy to manipulate.”
Can be yours for a mere $20,000. They also have a copy of Gill’s Four Gospels and some Golden Cockerel stuff, all of which I covet.
This thumbnail came up in a search for “tight back binding”. Apparently it’s student work from Standford. You can see it in this PDF, but the referring page is down, unfortunately. I’d love to see more photos. Looks amazing.
from In Which Molly Reviews True Blood For Your Amusement, via spangley
ERIC IS NOT AMUSED.
(Now that I’ve finished the Southern Vampire Mysteries, I’m getting a little bored with the TV series. In the books, Bill sucks, Jason is boring, and Sookie and Eric are some of the most lovable pulp literary characters I’ve ever read. Oh, and there are FAERIES. In the television series, there are a lot of butts, Eric is a psycopath, and Sookie is irritating. About the only good thing the added was Layfette—who, oddly, manages to be as spunky and charming as the book’s version of Sookie.)
Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day. Her hopes were answered; Jane had not been gone long before it rained hard, and the soft ground gave way to scores of the disagreeable creatures, still clad in their tattered finery, but possessing none of the good breeding that had served them so well in life.
[ from “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” ]
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![[ Man in Control by Alice Morgan ]
I just found out my coworker’s grandma wrote this book. Also this one, and this one, among others.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/fklSMu12Um2ce37viuQhfKgYo1_400.jpg)
![[ All the Sad Young Literary Men, via the Book Design Review ]](http://29.media.tumblr.com/fklSMu12Ulzp9em4RCU5yPkPo1_400.jpg)
![[ who owls the owlmen, by radiomaru ]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/fklSMu12Uky12haaOa9D4k2Bo1_500.jpg)
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