Each individual page of The Last Good Fairy is decorated with tiny, black-and-white photographs of found objects bracketing the page numbers and a B&W found-object “frame” holds each chapter number. At the end of the each chapter, glyphs and typography are used to create simple, spare designs. Each chapter has a unique folio decoration; the last page of each chapter has a unique design.
Keswick House Publishers received a New England Book Show Award for this title, for excellence in graphic design. This year, for the 50th annual show, all judges for the winning entries were former Dwiggins Award industry leaders, who, according to the trade organization, Bookbuilders of Boston which hosts the New England Book Show in Boston, “exemplify the ideals of Bookbuilders [and] have the highest personal standards of craftsmanship and devotion to his/her work.” Judges commented on Keswick House’s winning entry, “Exceptional use of dingbats, florets, sorts, and borders. Few books warrant use of ornaments this lavish—The Last Good Fairy is one of them.”
The Last Good Fairy
The Last Good Fairy, by Celeste White, is a novel about living with uncertainty and loss, about redemption, and about a scientist who follows an unconventional path in her search for healing and the artist who helps her.
This particular edition of The Last Good Fairy has been published as a sumptuous limited collectors’ edition. Stinehour Press, an award-winning printer in Vermont, printed the books; New Hampshire Bindery, an award-winning binder, bound them. The book has no jacket but is stamped in gold. On decorated copies, the spine of each book is hand-decorated by the author/artist with semi-precious stones, pearls, charms, and/or dichroic glass; each book is one of a kind. Unadorned copies are also available.
