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These paired Art Deco bindings, in glazed black calf with white suede inlays representing lightning flashes, were created by Eliseo Tealdi in Florence in 1930. They were commissioned by a young American student of art, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman…

These paired Art Deco bindings, in glazed black calf with white suede inlays representing lightning flashes, were created by Eliseo Tealdi in Florence in 1930. They were commissioned by a young American student of art, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman…

The volume of author’s manuscript and artist’s collages was bound by Renaud Vernier and Claude Ribal in gray goatskin. The polychrome design depicts elements of the Paris Métro beneath opened-up buildings depicted in the characteristic limestone of…

Famous for its linoleum-cut illustrations by Matisse, this example is renowned for its pictorial Spanish binding by Santiago Brugalla. It features sculptured elements within a Cretan/Minoan overall design, along with white lambswool doublures.

This die, in several slightly differing versions with minor changes to permit different titling, was made for Pierre Legrain, the founder of the Art Deco binding, after his design. The overall pattern, stamped in gilt, appeared on works by Verlaine…

This extensive survey of Bonet’s binding designs over the first quarter-century of his work, compiled by several of his supporters, is one of 50 copies with original material from his designs. Bonet described this example as the very epitome of his…

The publisher’s cloth-covered case binding is in notably bright condition for a century-old book written for a young-adult audience. It is accompanied by the brass binding die that produced the black-printed text and design elements on the front…

When the Club purchased this example in 1889 it was bound in a disintegrating 18th-century binding. Rebound sympathetically in New York in 1975, it was stamped with a reproduction of Tory’s publisher’s binding die, its shattered vase memorializing…

This striking and imaginative binding was created by Michael Wilcox, a Canadian artist, in 1982. The midnight-blue goatskin is covered in red goatskin letterforms, for the author and title, on both covers. It is the most elaborate of seven Club…

The horizontal or landscape-format binding of magenta goatskin features hologram-like red plastic “window” inserts spelling out the author’s name. It was created in Paris by Georges Leroux in 1993.