Gloopaste. Just say it out loud. I guarantee you can’t not laugh while doing it. GLOOOOOOPASTE. From: Huntting, H. R., co., inc., Springfield, Mass. Book Mending; Some Short Cuts And Labor Saving Devices. Springfield, Mass.: The H. R. Huntting company, 1938.
And THIS is why us conservators hate rubber bands. This sucker is stuck between two pages.
Diamond cigarettes: for people who like to hold their hand JUST SO
Not too convinced yet…
TGIF!
Animated book boxes, aka four-flap wrappers aka tuxedo boxes aka preservation enclosures.
Useful books, for weakly puppies and dainty feeders. (Ads in the back of a 19th century book.)
The scars of oversewing and a Demco hinge repair. I seem to rescue one of these previously-repaired books about once a month. Sometimes the original sewing is completely gone, hence the stab-sewing, but in many cases it was completely fine. This kind of side-sewing is particularly bad for books with brittle paper, as the paper’s […]
Cover of an Arabic (?) language book. If you can translate the title, let me know! I foolishly forgot to write down the call number when I took the photo.
Definitely not a binding I’m familiar with!