Hand-sewn binding repair:
"A friend of mine once kept a mouse in his house."
A box of Heritage Press books came into the thrift store this week. So pretty, but not particularly valuable. Each of these, however, still has its original Sandglass — the "four-page pamphlet discussing the illustrator and the importance of the
book". Most are still in their slipcase. I priced them high, for us: $4.50 to $9.
My mother's parents had a bookshelf of these--(or possibly Folio Society books, or the like). I never saw anyone reading one, or anything but paperback fiction; I think their function was to signal middle-class respectability.
My mother's parents had a bookshelf of these--(or possibly Folio Society books, or the like). I never saw anyone reading one, or anything but paperback fiction; I think their function was to signal middle-class respectability.
They're from this man's estate (I looked him up, and he is no more):
