A book bound in burlap! It’s as scratchy as it looks. The title and cover image were printed directly on the burlap. Saraswati, Baidyanath. Pottery-making cultures and Indian civilization. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications, 1979, c1978.
How to Handle Books, 1345 “For it behoves us to guard a book much more carefully than a boot.” See also:
The works of Francis Bacon. Edge marbling, hand-tied endbands (only half of which remain), a nifty facsimile of a handwritten letter, and some interesting text layouts.
Danton does not approve of oversewing!
A really good example of a terrible cover-up job by a patron. We didn’t fall for it. Please note that they have colored in, with colored pencils, the filled-in area AND the roughed-up original boards. Also, the icing on the cake…the title of this book is “Too Big to Fail”.
Here is a book a patron tried to repair…as if we wouldn’t notice the “fix”. Their dog ate the corner of this book, then they tried to “fix” it by gluing a piece of board into the hole and coloring over it with colored pencils. Our eagle-eyed circulation staff caught it, however, and the book was […]