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Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir

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Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir by Jeff Porter, University of Iowa Press, 2007

private collection, Oakland, CA

Full buffalo fine binding: sewn on flattened cords laced into boards. Goatskin backpared onlay and inlaid lines. Goatskin edge-to-edge doublure, with impression from inlaid leather lines visible on suede flyleaves. Hand sewn silk headbands, gilt top edge. Bound 2009.

9.5 x 6 x.75"

Design inspired by author’s vignettes of growing up during the Cold War: both the paranoia of nuclear attack and a landscape filled with playful pop culture atomic references.

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Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir by Jeff Porter, University of Iowa Press, 2007

private collection, Oakland, CA

Full buffalo fine binding: sewn on flattened cords laced into boards. Goatskin backpared onlay and inlaid lines. Goatskin edge-to-edge doublure, with impression from inlaid leather lines visible on suede flyleaves. Hand sewn silk headbands, gilt top edge. Bound 2009.

9.5 x 6 x.75"

Design inspired by author’s vignettes of growing up during the Cold War: both the paranoia of nuclear attack and a landscape filled with playful pop culture atomic references.

Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir by Jeff Porter, University of Iowa Press, 2007

private collection, Oakland, CA

Full buffalo fine binding: sewn on flattened cords laced into boards. Goatskin backpared onlay and inlaid lines. Goatskin edge-to-edge doublure, with impression from inlaid leather lines visible on suede flyleaves. Hand sewn silk headbands, gilt top edge. Bound 2009.

9.5 x 6 x.75"

Design inspired by author’s vignettes of growing up during the Cold War: both the paranoia of nuclear attack and a landscape filled with playful pop culture atomic references.

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