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Good Reading : October 2004
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18 goodreading book keeping to come. Old hardbacks, depending on their condition, can have their covers completely replaced or the original cover kept and just have the spine replaced. When it comes to new covers, the choice ranges from leather to synthetic to cloth.You can also add a ribbon, gold lettering or other trimmings, leaving you with a book that will be uniquely yours. Many library books are covered in buckram, which is tough longlasting synthetic leather made from stiffened cotton fabric, but for more highly prized books the real thing is requested. Some of the special leather covers LJ Cullen has produced for customers are made of kangaroo skin, which has proved very popular, but you can select just about anything you please and they will try to source it for you. My eye is caught by a book that was produced as a limited edition for a publisher and is covered in emu leather.The pattern of emu leather is really very beautiful and fascinating, almost like goose bumps on a page. Other limited editions are bound in cloth. One such book takes my breath away – Ken Duncan’s The Ken Duncan Collection . Inset into the front cover is a beautiful photograph of a sunset – but when I open this panoramic sized book I am awestruck by the endpapers, which stretch out across the table. A beautiful forest is laid out before me and is so real I am drawn into it. Another limited edition obviously treasured by its owner is a book called Images of Bradman , which is signed by the great batsman himself and is a special ‘printer’s edition’.This is when a printer does an initial run of the requested limited number for the publisher and then does another run for himself, in this case only four. As I make my way around the premises following the trail of repair I realise that the number of processes a book has to go through to be restored is more than I had ever thought. I also come to appreciate that this is an old craft, one that takes skill, care and precision.The craftsmen who work here seem to have this skill in their blood and they make me feel confident that I could entrust my loved, fragile books to their rough but gentle hands.The end product is an even more precious book, one that will be treasured for generations to come. For more information contact: LJ Cullen 19 Arab Road Padstow NSW 2211 Tel: (02) 9772 3200 Email: ljcullen@ozzienet.net SECONDHAND BOOKS For Quality Secondhand and Antiquarian Books see us at Adelaide Booksellers 1st Floor, 6A Rundle Mall Adelaide SA 5000 Ph: (08) 8410 0216 Open 6 days – Monday to Saturday Closed Sundays Email: books@adelaidebooksellers.com.au Web: www.adelaidebooksellers.com.au ALWAYS BUYING AND SELLING Beulah Park Books 325 The Parade Beulah Park SA 5067 Ph: (08) 8331 0005 Open 6 Days – Tuesday to Sunday Closed Mondays Email: bpbooks@bigpond.net.au Colin Randall Books Book search services provided. Visit our new shop at The Emporium, 321 High Street Maitland NSW 2320. Between 10-4pm daily. 02 4925 3995 books@colinrandall.com.au The Cornstalk Bookshop Australian Antiquarian Booksellers EST. 1979 170 King Street Newtown 02 9550 3566 112 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 02 9660 4889 WE WILL BUY YOUR BOOKS!! We Find Books! BiblioQuest International is Australia’s leading specialist booksearch service. Over 20 million out-of-print & collectable books are online at www. biblioz.com.au or phone for search help on Freecall 1800 067 877 Looking to start or expand your collection or looking for a rare book? Here are some great places to start. Come to... Antiquariat Fine Books Who knows what you will find! We inhabit two worlds... Reality at... The Penders,Wingecarribee St Bowral, ph (02) 4861 2199 Virtual at... www.antiquariat.com.au Good books for 25 years Bowral’s Best Browse! books@antiquariat.com.au BARBARA FISHER Old & Out-of-print Books Food & Cookery, Social History 21 Stratford St. Cammeray NSW 2062 by appointment only (02) 9909 2034 Email Cookbooks@BarbaraFisher.com.au
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