Over the past few months I've been working on a top secret project. It is with great pride that I unveil this special publication by The Optics Press...

No Cameras Allowed: The Concert Photography of Dorian Boese 1976-1983

*From the introduction...

Going to concerts used...

 The Optics Press Vol.2 has officially sold out as of today. There will be no further printings. I want to thank everyone that purchased a copy. The last few months have been a ton of work and even though the cost of the book (not cheap by any means) barely covered the...

I am now taking pre-orders for the Opitcs Press Vol. 2

If you haven't already, check out my last blog post to see what it's all about.

Here's a breakdown of everything that went into the binding...

• Printed in full color on gloriously thick 100# acid-free paper

• T...

First, a little history on the book. When George Macy (LEC President) announced to the members of the Limited Editions Club that an upcoming printing of Victor Hugo's classic Notre-Dame De Paris was not only going to be printed in Paris, it was going to to be bound Fre...

 Here's a little film I made showing the process of taking a book originally bound in wraps (French Style) and doing a complete rebind utilizing medieval binding technique with raised bands. The book used for the demonstration is The Limited Editions Club's 1930 public...

I was in a bookstore a few months ago (natch) and stumbled across a Limited Editions Club copy of Vanity Fair. At first I was ecstatic but became much less so after noticing the condition. Seeing has how this isn't one of the more valuable LEC books and the cost of re...

This rebinding job a great example in showing that no matter how well you take care of a book it doesn't matter if the original binding job was poor to begin with. Case in point, the 5 volume set of American Patriots & Statemen.

 The main problem with the original bindi...

As opposed to the previous blog entry detailing a basic rebind, here's an example of a full rebind. 

Please bring the patient in for surgery....

What you see here was a first edition Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1847. The orignal leather has completely...

Here's an example of a basic rebind job. What I mean by that is that the only work being done to the original book is replacing the covers and endpapers (please see the next blog entry on the "full rebind job"). The books in question were the 2 volume set "Democracy in...

James Joyce's Ulysses is often cited as the 20th centrury's greatest novel and one of the best works of literature ever written (with no argument from me). Naturally, a first edition would be the piece de resistance in many book collector's collection. This is especial...