*impotent scream of rage* File this away in “Bad Ideas to Not Repeat in Modern Times.” 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.
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 […]
From Reverend O’Conor’s “Facts About Bookworms”. New York, 1898.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, If your book falls out of the press, Just tighten the screw!
The 1960’s: a time when women flowered.
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.
A book with a hole drilled through it. I can’t make this stuff up, it writes itself!
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