LaPlantz Studios

In 2010, I began the process involved in reprinting Shereen’s Innovative Bookbinding, Secret Compartments & Hidden Messages!

After many requests from Book Arts World and lovers of the artists’ books, it was obvious that the time is right to bring Shereen’s book out of retirement.

By 2013, the exciting process of generating a very clean copy of Shereen’s book was accomplished with many hearts & hands & great people assisting. The form of the re-print is not hand bound as the original copies were created, but all of the original writing and instructions  remains the same. As for the special, secret compartments & hidden messages areas, you will see pictures of them (as they existed in the original hand bound versions) in the final re-print. Since this reprint is not hand bound, we had to resort to pictures instead of the actual and incredible secret compartments and hidden messages areas. This was a concession I had to make, but I hope you like what you see.

You won’t be disappointed by the recreation of Shereen LaPlantz’s Innovative Bookbinding.

My goal was to reproduce Innovative Bookbinding, Secret Compartments & Hidden Messages as close to the original as possible. I held  in my heart, the way I know Shereen would wish her most prized book to look and feel.

Out of respect for Shereen and her Bookbinding legacy, this re-print will emerge to satisfy the educational needs, while extending Shereen’s vision and incredible writing/bookbinding methods for future generations!

I feel that the reprint has the strength and legs of the original, relative to the best production methods we could use at this time to bring Shereen’s book back to life.

I hope you will be happy with our Innovative Bookbinding, Secret Compartments & Hidden Messages reprint!

Navigate back to the page Welcome page and click on the Shereen’s reprint order link.

Thank you!