Showing posts with label books on bookbinding for sale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books on bookbinding for sale. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2008

Books on Bookbinding

Here offered are a number of duplicates. There are only a few "must haves" if just starting out, but all are useful.
Jane Greenfield: Headbands, How to Work Them. Oak Knoll, 1990. oop (Hardcover, still in shrinkwrap) $25
Jane Greenfield: ABC of Bookbinding. Oak Knoll, 1998. oop. (Hardcover, dj, fine) $30
Einen Miura: The Art of Marbled Paper. Zaehnsdorf, 1990. (Hardcover, dj in mylar, vg) This edition has a tab between the bibliography and the Index in English with a tipped in sheet of handmarbled paper. $30
Laurence Town: Bookbinding by Hand for Students and Craftsmen. London: Faber & Faber, no date. (hardcover, ex-library stamps, no card pocket, very good) $20
A. W. Lewis: Basic Bookbinding. NY: Dover, 1957. (paper, very good) $5
Kenneth Perry and Clarence Baab: The Binding of Books. Meriden, CT: Kelsey Company, 1940. (Hardcover in mylar, very good, name on front flyleaf) $10
Shereen LaPlantz: Cover to Cover. Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals & Albums. Asheville, NC: Lark Books, 1995. (Paperback, very good) $10
Aldren A. Watson: Hand Bookbinding. NY: Bell Publishing, 1963. (Hardcover, dustjacket in mylar, very good) $12
John Mitchell: An Introduction to Gold Finishing. A Craftsman's Guide. West Sussex: Standing Press, 1995. (Paperback, very good but for rumpling to bottom corner of rear cover, not affecting text.) $75
John Mitchell: A Craftsman's Guide to Edge Decoration. West Sussex: Standing Press, 1993. (Paperback, very good.) $75
Philip Smith: New Directions in Bookbinding. NY: Van Nostrund Reinhold, 1974. (Hardcover, dustjacket in mylar, very good) $180
Faith Shannon: Paper Pleasures. The Creative Guide to Papercraft. NY: Grove Weidenfeld, 1987. (Hardcover, dustjacket in mylar, fine) $10
Adrian Wilson: The Design of Books. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. (paperback, very good) $10
Roy Harley Lewis: Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century. NY: Arco, 1985. (Hardcover, dustjacket in mylar, very good.) $20