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Booklover's Repair Kit - Repair and Preserve Your Important Old Books (berkeley)
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"Wiggins and Lee are veteran practitioners of the craft of repairing and preserving books, and here they work with Ellis (At Home with Books) to bring these techniques into the home. Their "repair kit" includes a hardbound instruction book, The Booklover's Repair Manual, which deals with the damage books receive in the home, with clear, step-by step, illustrated instructions on how to handle, among other problems, page tears, damaged dust jackets, frayed cover edges and recent minor water damage. (The authors advise that badly stained books, or leatherbound collectibles, be taken to a specialist; and they include a list of these.) The kit, packaged in a box that resembles an oversize hardcover, contains much more than the book, however. It holds all the non-household tools one needs to undertake the covered repairs, including, among other items, pH-neutral adhesive, cotton library tape, a microspatula and a bamboo brush."
We received this kit as a gift, but never opened the sealed wrapper, so it is in almost new condition. It originally cost $125 in 2000, when first released. Similar kits on E-Bay are going for $90-179; opened kits are going for about $60, and Repair Manuals alone are going for about $30. I am giving it away so that it can be used by someone who still cares about books.
I live near North Berkeley BART. If you are interested, please reply to this e-mail with a few possible dates and times when you could meet. I am available almost any time from 10AM to 8PM, except M, W, and F mornings, and occasional appointments. Please include a cell phone in case there needs to be a last-minute change of plans; when I reply to your e-mail, I'll include my phone number and address.
Thanks for your interest in this item.
Neil