Another copy of American Gods by @neil-gaiman . Originally in paperback, rebound as a hardcover book in hand dyed red sienna leather with gilded pages edges and gold vinyl decoration depicting Shadow Moon standing beneath the tree Yggdrasil.

The new book arrived today.

Amazing quality. You can check out the seller on Etsy.

@alexlibris-bookart

Celtic style tooling for the Gospel facsimile version cover.

Leatherbound Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, and Silmarillion: Part 17 (of 17)

This post is part of a series, with each post highlighting a leatherbound copy of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, or The Silmarillion. (Sometimes it is a collection of some or all of these.) All of these are from Etsy, but I am not receiving any sort of payment or commission to post them. After each item, I have written the title of the Etsy listing and the name of the Etsy shop.

Continuing my favorites...

The Hobbit leather bound illustrated book. BottegaObscura.

✦𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈© 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞✦

Really don't wanna DNF this book but it's a struggle getting through the first book 😩😩 guess late nights for me wrestling my thoughts trying to get through this series

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓮𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓯 𝓡𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓽𝔂 (1905)

~ 𝓐. 𝓔𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓲𝓷

(1965). Leather. Guild Press.

via Lavender Zine Archives.

The Chronicles of Narnia omnibus containing all seven books in one! Originally a paperback, rebound into hardcover with hand dyed green goatskin leather and gold design depicting Aslan on the front cover. Now available in my shop at the link in my bio.

Okay. Hear me out.

The Aftermath: heartbroken, angsty Crowley finds himself navigating the slums of New York City, meeting the worst of the worse. He finds a human he can trust who reminds him why he’s not unworthy or undeserving of love. Crowley slowly accepts the world is worth saving, even without Aziraphale.

MEANWHILE, Aziraphale becomes obsessed with perfection and reinvents himself as the most powerful Archangel heaven has ever known to help bring forth The Second Coming. Desperately trying to forgot all that was before otherwise the painful memories of lost love will annihilate him.

But Muriel won’t let him forget and their innocence and kindness reminds Azirphale who he was and how he deserved love and never needed anyone’s approval of that love, not even God’s.

*huff puff huff puff*

No? No good?

FINE, just enjoy this Fanfic inspired by my grungy, angsty 90s graphic novel phase.

(How are the 90s so long ago?)

"Remarkably, hostile neighbors were relatively rare. Writing about homophobia, bell hooks criticizes the contemporary feminist view that homophobia is stronger in the Black community. She argues that, if this is the case today, it is a relatively recent phenomenon. When she was growing up in the South, poor Blacks, who were struggling for survival in a society fraught with racial hatred, did not ostracize their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. Tolerance, if not acceptance, was the norm. This would appear to be true of Buffalo in the 1950s. Few, if any, Black narrators remember being physically attacked and beaten by Black men. Most white narrators confirm that they felt more accepted in the Black straight world than in the white. This is not to say that homophobia was absent from the Black community in the 1950s; it simply took different forms and it did not generate as much aggressive physical harassment of lesbians.

The police, however, were an ever-present danger. Black narrators, unlike white narrators, recall the police as vicious during the 1950s. Racial prejudice seems to have magnified hostility toward lesbians and gays to the extent that Black lesbians risked arrest for “disorderly conduct” just by walking in their own neighborhoods."

- Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline Davis

Detail shots from some of the paintings from the Tamburn Gospels illuminated manuscript project.

Leatherbound Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, and Silmarillion: Part 1

This post is part of a series, with each post highlighting a leatherbound copy of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, or The Silmarillion. (Sometimes it is a collection of some or all of these.) All of these are from Etsy, but I am not receiving any sort of payment or commission to post them. After each item, I have written the title of the Etsy listing and the name of the Etsy shop.

Fine leather bound the lord of the Rings book. LOTR. Customized book with initials. BottegaObscura.

Final version of Oblivion leather journal...