STRING-TIED BINDING < Back to Terminology List STRING-TIED BINDING Feature Leaves are bound by tying with string, cord, or lacing that passes through drilled or punched holes. Typically, the leaves can be loose with board covers or folded and gathered in wraps. The first example image shows a side-stitched binding. The second example image shows a saddle-stitched binding. See Whipstitching . Previous Next

HAZARDOUS BINDINGS - CELLULOID / IVORINE BINDINGS < Back to Terminology List HAZARDOUS BINDINGS - CELLULOID / IVORINE BINDINGS Defect Cellulose-nitrate was used to form hard 'artificial ivory' material used for the covers of some late nineteenth-century US and European decorative, gift books, albums, and religious books. Often used under its trade names of Celluloid, Ivorine, or French Ivory, as it degrades the material is sometimes unstable, can off-gas acidic compounds that affect adjacent materials, and is highly flammable, also releasing toxic gases as it burns. Considered hazardous by some common carriers, there may be restrictions on shipping the material. Celluloid / Ivorine handling and safety https://celluloidsheet.com/faq-items/is-celluloid-flammable-what-safety-precautions-should-be-taken-during-its-use-and-storage/ The example images show the decorated recto , smooth verso , and coggled edges of a celluloid or ivorine binding. Previous Next

GLASSINE < Back to Terminology List GLASSINE Feature Glassine is a thin, semi-translucent material used by some publishers to cover and protect a book. The material is delicate and easily damaged. These are usually, though not always, unprinted. Some are embossed with a spider web pattern and called Webbed Glassine . The example shown is on a book dating from 1937. As the image shows, this wrapper is chipped and wrinkled with losses along the edges. It is also somewhat toned and brittle. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Sage Rare & Collectible Books OWNER: Kim Blaker Member since: 2020 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 15 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Reciprocal discount on direct purchases. sagerarebooks@gmail.com 248-943-2881 734-637-4947 37490 Ann Arbor Trail, Livonia, MI, 48150, United States More about this bookseller Sage Rare & Collectible Books specializes in out-of-print, rare, and collectible books. We carry a large selection of vintage and modern First Editions, signed books, leatherbound editions, and more in all genres and subject matter. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale We package every order with care, wrapped with ample packing material and in sturdy packaging to ensure books and ephemera arrive in the same condition as when they leave our store. We also collect and re-use shipping materials as much as possible to reduce our imprint on the planet. We guarantee your order to be as described in our listing. Returns must be initiated by contacting us within 7 days of delivery.

Continue VISIT WEBSITE White Eagle Books OWNER: Andrew Szaflarski-saidi Member since: 2015 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 10 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): andrewsaidi54@gmail.com 020 8997 9894 07730892206 17 rossall crescent, London, NW10 7HE, United Kingdom More about this bookseller White Eagle Books specialise in books on Modern First Editions based on the 1950s/60s/70s cinema, World travel with particular emphasis on The Middle East, Central Asia and The Orient, India and the Far East. White Eagle Books is a leading seller of books associated with the Polish Forces in World War II, a scarce subject area. We also stock academic titles, books with an Islamic interest,English History and Topography and obscure titles of interest. White Eagle Books also exhibit at a number of prestigious Fairs including the monthly Book Fair at the Royal National Hotel in Bloomsbury, London and the PBFA Premier Fairs. White Eagle Books is a member of the PBFA White Eagle Books has been selling antiquarian and select second hand books worldwide for the last 21 years. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Robinson Street Books OWNER: Rhett Moran Member since: 2012 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Reciprocal discount. info@RobinsonStreetBooks.com 607-217-4328; Toll Free USA: 800 184 Robinson Street, Binghamton, NY, 13904, United States More about this bookseller We have been selling online since 1995. We've had 3 open shops over the years, sold via AB Bookman's, Catalogs, and now from our offices and warehouse in Binghamton, NY. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale All items are subject to prior sale. Any item may be returned for any reason within 14 days of receipt with prior notification. Returns that are due to our error we will pay for return shipping as well as the original shipping. All autographs are guaranteed authentic and may be returned by the original purchaser if found otherwise without time limit for full refund.

Maya Angelou's The Aristocrat, miniature book by Tamazunchale Press PRICE $ 250 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Title: The Aristocrat Author: Angelou, Maya Publication: Newton, Iowa: Tamazunchale Press, 1986. Description: Miniature book containing an excerpt from Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." No. 61 of 250 copies. Printed from Trinité type by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen of Haarlem, Netherlands. Bound by Reliure d'Art du Centre of Limoges, France in full orange goatskin with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers by Faith Harrison, and all edges gilt. 2.5 x 1.75 inches; 48, [8] pages (first and last leaf blank and adhered to endpapers as issued). Mild soiling and discoloration to the covers, else a clean and crisp copy. Near Fine. In addition to Tamazunchale Press miniature books, the Dutch printer Joh. Enschedé en Zonen also printed Achille St. Onge miniature books, stamps, and paper currency. Tamazunchale Press was established in Iowa by miniature book collector Charlotte Smith and her husband Tom. They published 20 miniature books between 1983 and 1988. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Head to Tail Books 1548 Aldine Press edition of Cicero's Epistolae Familiares See Item Letter from a father to his son, with a charming illustration of dog driving a car, dated 1959 See Item Tauchnitz 1926 "Copyright edition" of "The Forsyte Saga" in custom block-printed paper bindings See Item Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Swineherd," hand-colored miniature book See Item Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union cookbook, annotated with recipe for dandelion wine See Item Advertising card for Dandy, a high-diving King Charles Cavalier and Cocker Spaniel mix, circa 1900 See Item Collection of books from the personal library of author Erica Jong See Item Soviet-era miniature book about Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels See Item Maya Angelou's The Aristocrat, miniature book by Tamazunchale Press See Item 1904 autograph letter signed from bloodhound breeder C.A. Appley to prospective buyer See Item Master's Violin, by Myrtle Reed, in binding designed by Margaret Armstrong, 1910 See Item Patricio Tricasso's "Epitoma chyromantico," 1535 treatise on palmistry, with 78 woodcuts See Item

Retrospective on Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin & Jim Morrison PRICE USD $30 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Masters of Rock, Fall 1992, Issue 9 (Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix, cover title). New York: New Morning Productions, 1992 Cover photo of Jimi Hendrix from 1970 by Barrie Wentzell, includes multiple stories about the "Psychotropic Trinity: Hendrix, Joplin & Morrison", also a Richard Cole Interview on Led Zeppelin. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Andrew Langer, Bookseller CRABS headlining for Commander Cody - Flyer for 1970 Berkeley show See Item Retrospective on Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin & Jim Morrison See Item A satirical and humorous look at Medical School from the eyes of a student See Item DOXEY'S GUIDE to SAN FRANCISCO and the Pleasure Resorts of California. San Francisco: William Doxey See Item United Air Lines flyer promoting Flights over San Francisco at GGIE exposition See Item

[Maconochie Brothers] [19th Century Handbill] Silvoceas The King of Fish No Copies In Institutions PRICE 85 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [Maconochie Brothers] [19th Century Handbill] Silvoceas The King of Fish London and Lowestoft, England, Maconochie Brothers, 1880. No Binding. Late 19th Century two-sided handbill with a color lithograph showing fishmonger holding a large basket of fish. An unusual handbill nicely lithographed. 7.25 by 9.75 inches, ca.1880. Includes Recipes for preparing Silvoceas, the rear features many products offered. Carefully handled, center fold; even age-toning; small, closed tear on the right edge 3 inches from the bottom. There are no copies listed in institutions. [OCLC / Worldcat] Background Information: Silvoceas is actually a preparation for herring developed by Maconchie Brothers. The handbill claims that they are supplied to the Queen and Prince of Wales. Maconochie Brothers was the largest tinned food manufacturer in the world during the late Victorian period. They were the largest supplier of food to British armed forces during the Boar and First World War. Ref: Lets Look Again (online); Gracesguide (online) PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Blind-Horse-Books Hillerman, Tony Finding Moon [Original color drawing by Ernest Franklin] First Edition, First Print See Item Tolkien, J.R.R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other Verses from The Red Book 1st Am Edition See Item Dunbar, Paul Laurence Howdy Honey Howdy First Edition First Printing. 1905 African American Poetry See Item [Maconochie Brothers] [19th Century Handbill] Silvoceas The King of Fish No Copies In Institutions See Item Milk Cows Today – Slaughter Cows Tomorrow [Live Stock] See Item Dull, Mrs. S. R. [Henrietta Stanley] Southern Cooking 1941 Classic and Foundational Cookery Book See Item Album of New Hampshire Covered Bridge Photographs by Leslie L. Turner, 1920-40 See Item [Cocktail Recipes] Clysmic King of Table Waters c1910 Uncommon only two copies held in Institutions See Item Strutt, Joseph The Chronicle of England 2 Vol 1777 Finely Bound See Item [Vale Press, Charles Ricketts] The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known See Item Keeler, Charles Elfin Songs of Sunland [Verse for Children] with Dust Jacket See Item Lamb, Charles With an introduction by Andrew Lang Beauty and the Beast 1887 Finely Bound See Item Walton, Isaak & Cotton, Charles The Complete Angler, Or Contemplative Man's Recreation; 1775 See Item The History of Magic [Bohn’s Scientific Library] London Henry G. Bohn, 1854 Ennemoser, Joseph See Item A Tramp Abroad 1st Edition 1880 Mark Twain, (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Finely Bound See Item

SUNNED < Back to Terminology List SUNNED Defect Browning, yellowing, or fading of paper, dust jacket or binding as a result of sun exposure. In the pictured image, the spine is sunned. Previous Next

CHIPPED < Back to Terminology List CHIPPED Defect A binding that has been damaged having small pieces broken off of a dust jacket or binding (most often from the spine). Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Bluebird Books OWNER: Eric Mayer Member since: 2009 Eric Mayer, bookseller (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): books@bluebirdbooks.com 303-912-4559 8201 S. Santa Fe Drive, #245, Littleton, CO, 80120, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale