thelittledog | Adventures in the Exciting World of Book Repair

Or, oh fuck, my books are falling apart.

Surgery was recently performed on Super Barbarians by John Brunner, which came home from the antique fair in a sorry state, and is now sitting on the bookshelf in a slightly less sorry state.

It's been taped and glued. In fact, glued twice. After I fixed the book block at the top I discovered it was also peeling at the bottom. All I really wanted to achieve was a book that would survive being read. Time will tell on that point, I guess.

I also did some taping today on the dustjacket to Destination: Disaster by the Sunday Times Insight Team, written back in the days when the ST actually did real journalism. Don't know when or how it happened, but the dj was torn right across the spine. Annoying. It's not a valuable book but it is one of which I'm fond.

Also discovered that I have two copies of In Search of the Edge of Time by John Gribbin, one mmp and one trade paperback. Dunno how THAT happened.