That's interesting. It sounds like an attempted throw-back to
earlier practices. In the UK, ordinary books only started to
be issued in hard covers late in the 19th century. It was
assumed you would have your books bound, presumably to match,
if you were adding them to your library. My French books (all
20c) are still all paperbacks. The idea of leather-binding a
Gold Medal pb does seem a little expensive, even to solve the
problems of those glued paper covers! ;-)
Marianne On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 08:00 AM, RARA-AVIS
Digest wrote:
> "For twenty-five dollars you can get a hundred
paperbacks and if you
> find one you like you can have it bound to
keep."
>
> This isn't the first time I've seen mention of
hardbinding paperbacks.
> Did people really do this?
>
> Mark
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