
Coraline - The Red Thread Edition - lettered
Neil Gaiman
Publication year
Limitation
Lyra's Press
2022
26
Author signature
Artist
Introduction
Yes
Rovina Cai
None
List Price
Median Market Value
Recorded Sales
£2,550
£5,375
4
3.a The "Standard edition": Quarter-bound in two tone red cloth, hand marbled paper covered boards with three passes of foil blocking and a further pass of black for the title on the spine, slipcased, signed by artist: limitation 500
3.b The "Numbered" edition: Fully bound in black Morocco goatskin leather with a foil blocked ‘red thread’ design spanning the entirety of the cover, slipcased, signed by author and artist: limitation 200
3.c The "Lettered" edition: Fully bound in black goatskin leather which has been hand marbled, solander traycase, signed by author and artist: limitation 26
Printed letterpress on 160gsm Madrid Litho paper by Phil Abel and Robert Hetherington of Hand and Eye Letterpress. Black ink throughout with red throughout on many of the other pages.
16 colour plates, including frontispiece. With over 25 black and red letterpress silhouettes.
The Lettered edition is fully bound in black goatskin leather which has been hand marbled by Freya Scott of Paperwilds. The title is foil blocked in gold on the spine and there is a foil blocked red thread across the front and back boards.
Silk ribbon marker.
Silhouette endpapers.
The book comes in a square spined, fully bound, black leather solander box with six passes of foil blocking across the cover. The inside of the box is lined with grey suede and in the small tray is a small frame cutout with a foil blocked leather panel beneath. The trays are covered with black cloth. Inside the box is also a cloth quarter-bound portfolio with marbled face papers. The portfolio contains a selection of colour prints from the book.
The other editions: Standard - Numbered