Fablelistik Editions

Lettered Edition of The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

V.E. Schwab

$3,450.00
  • Print Run: 26 copies
  • Page Count: 448 pages
  • Trim Size: 7.5 x 10.5
  • Signed by V.E. Schwab, Alexis Lampley, Dina Brodsky, Pat Randle, Ellen Bills, Kate Holland and Gavin Dovey 
  • Bookbinder: Kate Holland (Kate Holland Books) 
  • Printer: Letterpress printed by Pat Randle & Ellen Bills (Nomad Letterpress) 
  • Paper: Zerkall Handmade Paper
  • Bookbinding Details: Printed leather case with a nebula design, accented with pearl blue luster speckle, 7 Preciosa crystals and blind tooled to represent Addie LaRue’s “seven freckles, scattered like a band of stars across her nose and cheeks. Her own private constellation.”
    • Deckled side. Top and bottom edges are sponged in prussian blue and payne's grey watercolor edges, sprinkled with blue/silver pearl lustre
    • Blue Leather head & tail bands
    • Vintage marbled endpapers from Legatoria Montanari (Bologna, Italy)
  • Enclosure Binder: Gavin Dovey (Paper Dragon Books)
  • Enclosure Details: Japanese blue mohair cloth clamshell box, lined in navy blue pig suede and stamped on the spine with silver foil
  • Interior Details:
    • Typography: The text is set in Caslon, the running head is set in Ignatius and all other fonts throughout the book are hand- lettered by Alexis Lampley
    • Fablelistik exclusive designed line art by Alexis Lampley throughout the book - all part openers, chapters openers and illustrations (over 16 illustrations) 
    • Six 4-color illustrations by Dina Brodsky, one of which is exclusive to the Lettered Edition 
    • Lettered Edition Exclusive Note from V.E. Schwab
    • An original piece of art by Alexis Lampley - line art portrait of Addie LaRue by Alexis Lampley will be letterpress printed onto Zerkall paper, then customized as an original art piece in each Lettered Edition
  • Available for Pre-Order: U.S. and territories
  • Estimated Ship: Summer 2025
  • Other Editions: Numbered, Collector's

Book Summary

"A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget."

France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Addie LaRue’s extraordinary life plays out across centuries and continents, history and art, as she learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore who remembers her name.

Collaborators

Alexis Lampley
Illustrator

Alexis Lampley

Alexis Lampley has worked for over a decade as a hand-letterer and illustrator, focusing on books inside and out. She specializes in adapting her style to each specific title she works on, in order to better express the theme and mood of a particular story. As an author herself, Alexis understands the importance of art as a way to bring the words of a story to life. Alexis’s novel, Pride and Prejudice in Space, features dozens of her illustrations which showcase her wide range of styles and ability. Along with her own book, she has designed and illustrated dozens of book covers.

Dina Brodsky
Illustrator

Dina Brodsky

Dina Brodsky is a contemporary  realist miniaturist, painter and curator. She was educated at University  of Massachusetts Amherst and the New York Academy of Art, where she  received her MFA. She lives and works in Boston. She has taught  privately, and in several institutions including the New York Academy of Art, The Art Students League and the Metropolitan  Museum of Art.

Kate Holland
Bookbinder

Kate Holland

Specialising in contemporary fine bindings, Kate Holland uses traditional materials and techniques to produce a unique, modern binding that reflects the text, illustrations and typeface of the book. 

She is a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, one of the foremost societies dedicated to the craft of fine bookbinding, a QEST scholar, and designated Master Artisan by the Europe-wide Homo Faber guide. She has books in the Library of the Human Imagination as well as the V&A, British, Bodleian and Yale University Libraries and many public and private collections internationally.

Pat Randle, Nomad Letterpress
Letterpress

Pat Randle, Nomad Letterpress

Nomad Letterpress is run by Pat Randle from the Whittington Press in Cheltenham, from which Pat copublishes Double Dagger and prints Matrix (“the finest periodical of the book arts of the twentieth century”). Nomad Letterpress runs letterpress workshops throughout the year and specializes in high-quality book work both for clients and under their own imprint.

Nomad believes that printing and designing using the third dimension—be it with wood, metal, lino, or hardened plastics—cannot be surpassed for quality and character.

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