Currently in downtown Chicago for the annual American Library Association conference. Weather is rainy but warm and there are no couches in the conference areas of the Hilton Hotel. Guess nobody expects us to sit and blog during the downtime, which is why I've been holed up in this Starbucks for a while.
Anyway, short update: Suzy's current life plan=stay in Chicago.
Also, I found this awesome publisher's binding at the Evanston Public Library book sale about two weeks ago. It is a first edition of "Doctor Dolittle Goes to the Moon", with bright magenta and teal covers and crazy printed endpapers. It is missing its spine but the textblock was in fine shape. And all for the price of $2. <3
Casing Rib
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What happens when you hybridize a bookbinder’s folding rib and a case
folder? You get the Casing Rib. The potter’s rib was adapted for
bookbinding by Chr...
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