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Mindy Belloff. The Golden Hair of Medusa – A Contemporary Illumination. 2025. 108 pages. 368 x 273 mm. Adobe Garamond with additional typefaces on handmade cotton rag papers in white, silver grey, dark grey, and black, with over 100 original drawings by Belloff, printed letterpress, a selection of which are hand painted. Printed on a Vandercook Uni III A/B. 40 copies (8 to be specially bound): 32 hand sewn on linen tapes with cover in quarter leather calf skin and handmade white paper, housed inside a yellow-gold cloth clamshell box with gold titling on leather labels, sewn and bound by Celine Lombardi, ME, gilt edges in 23k gold, with spine design in gold on leather, gilded by Peter Geraty, MA. Price: POA. Text from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Gorgon’s Head” (1852). Additional text from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and writings of Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung. A companion book to A Golden Thread: The Minotaur, the reader is taken on a visually stunning adventure in this classic Greek tragedy. It is not only the journey of Perseus, as Hawthorne retells the story. It is also Medusa’s story, the forgotten character, banished to a secluded life and trapped in turmoil, only to be hunted and violated again. It is Medusa transformed, who now possesses the power of the gaze. The Golden Hair of Medusa received a Fine Press Book Association Judge’s Choice Award considered among the Best in Show during the Oxford Fine Press Fair, May 2025.