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There’s a man’s face and a woman’s head and shoulders, inked on to what at first looks like vellum, with deckle edges like an old book.

It was a simple black journal with leather front and back covers, and pages with a deckle edge.

And she'd have stationery made—blue with a deckle edge, her name and fancy address in swirling type across the top: Grace Windsor Wexler, Sunset Towers on the Lake Shore.

Their publicity material warmly extols their “French flaps,” “deckle edge” and “handy, giftable trim size.”

Some editions can command higher prices, like the $35 list price of a new translation of "The Iliad" by Stephen Mitchell that has a red silk placeholder, deckle edges, embossing and an extra-heavy paper stock.