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I bought this mess at an estate sale many, many years ago, thinking I might find be able to find somebody who could repair it for a price I could live with. Fat chance. Despite numerous inquiries, no estimate was low enough to justify having the work done. So it sat. And sat. Meanwhile, in the intervening years, I came across two other copies of the same book in much better condition. Both of them sold for well over $100 - but still, clearly not high enough to do anything with the third copy. Until Gail came along.

Look at what she did to it:

Thanks to her, I now have an intact, tightly bound, far more presentable copy that should also sell for over $100 - and this should still leave me with a profit of $75 or more. How so? Cost for reattaching the front board, reinforcing the back board, recasing with new endpapers, regluing the first three pages, and repairing four corners was a whopping $30. Intrigued? You should be. Visit her website for more details:

http://www.helenenthalbooks.com/StoreServices.htm

Gail, by the way, was trained by the Southern Library Information Network in Atlanta and is able to accomplish repairs to the advanced (full binding) level. And it runs in the family. Her husband Burt is an archivist with the Florida State University Special Collections Department. So - you now have my personal recommendation to give her a try, and the next time somebody asks me if a book should be repaired, I'll have an entirely different answer.

One more note: Issue #22 of the Gold Edition was delivered Monday evening, December 5 - Bob Schilling's Part II of "Secular Profits in Conservative Christian Books." Contact me if you didn't receive it, and another copy will be forwarded ASAP.