Amanda Buck

Book Conservation/Fine Bindings

Dahlonega, GA 30533

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Restoring the leather edges of a 19th C binding. Photos are after and before.
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Jules Verne, Ist American Edit. Binding

Cloth binding restoration of a Jules Verne.  One of my favorite genre's.  One of the coolest authors.  Photos are before and after.

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Kansas Atlas - Book Conservation - Book Restoration

I recently restored/conserved an oversized Kansas Atlas.  A major job that required a lot of paper conservation as well as a complete restoration of the cover.

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Religious Texts from 1644 & 1730

Working on some extremely old texts.  Ainsworth's Psalms from 1644 needs to be resewn and rebound as the binding was severely damaged from water.  It isn't the original binding but rather one that was put on in the 1800's.  William Webster- Bible in 2 Volumes, 1730 requires a new binding as well, as the  original was virtually nonexistent from water damage as well.  Thankfully, I don't have to resew.

TRADES IN AMERICA

Yesterday, I saw a partial speech by President Obama discussing how young people should go into the Trades rather than getting an Art History Degree.  A more reasonable way of making a decent living.  I have always agreed with this theory...up until now.  Recently, I have had two botched oil changes that nearly did severe damage to my car.  And I am currently in the middle of a nightmare while trying to get a $30 piece of mirror cut.  At three jobs should have been accomplished quite easily and competently.  While all three operations require a certain amount of skill, they are not high dollar, high skill operations.  All three businesses have given me the run-around and made no apologies for their lack of professionalism.  God help America if this is what we are reduced to.

A Very Rare Book

A Client sent me a wonderful article/story from the December 16, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Titled, A Very Rare Book by Nicholas Schmidle. It is an odyssey of a famous rare book forger(er). If you can get your hands on it you'll be as fascinated as I was, guaranteed.