The Jamieson Collection

I completed my latest clamshell protective box this morning for this great find from Livraria Artes & Letras. The book is an early collection of newspaper articles by Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago. I absolutely love this handmade (from natural cork!) Portuguese decorative paper, and will make it a recurring feature of my future Saramago projects.

Another custom clamshell box, this one to protect a rare copy of the 1941 first edition of the first novel by the acclaimed West Indian author Edgar Mittelholzer. This title was reissued in 1970 as Number 2 in Heinemann's 'Caribbean Writers Series', and again in 2009 as a part of Peepal Tree Press's 'Caribbean Modern Classics' collection.

And then there were three....

My second custom clamshell case. Thanks to Librairie Busser for the pristine copy of Patrick Modiano's latest novel, La Danseuse.