8 in. 9 in. 10 in. 12 in. Full Cloth (Lib. Buck.) or Full Duck 45 55 65 85 Full Imperial Morocco Cloth 50 60 70 95 Half Cowhide 50 65 85 1.10 Half Pigskin (English) 55 70 90 1.15 Half Pigskin (American) 50 65 85 1.10 Half Morocco 65 80 1.00 1.25 Half Duck (Waterproof sides) 45 55 65 85
Extra sizes 14 in. 16 in. per inch Full Cloth Lib. Buck. or Full Duck 1.10 1.35 15 cents Full Imperial Morocco Cloth 1.20 1.45 20 cents Half Cowhide 1.30 1.60 20 cents Half Pigskin (English) 1.35 1.65 20 cents Half Pigskin (American) 1.30 1.60 20 cents Half Morocco 1.50 1.85 25 cents Half Duck (Waterproof sides) 1.10 1.35 15 cents
Above prices include all lettering on books.
Books over 4 inches thick charged at rate of size larger.
Newspapers not over 30 inches, in half library buckram or half duck $2.25, or in full duck, $2.40.
Special prices for dictionaries, cyclopedias and other sizes not in above schedules.
Following is a statement of plans for cutting down the cost of binding, a few of them being obviously makeshifts for the benefit of poor or very small libraries.
Under this head will be found (in Chapter 6) a full statement of reasons for buying books bound from the sheets.
The cheap reprints of popular novels which cost less than one-half as much as the original edition, although attractive in appearance, are very poorly bound and if bought in original covers must be rebound within a short time after they are first placed on the shelves. Some librarians find that it pays to send orders for books which can be obtained in cheap reprints directly to their binders, who buy the books and rebind them in the regular half-leather binding which the library uses for its rebound fiction and juvenile. He bills the books to the library at the cost of the volume plus the cost of binding, the total in any event being considerably less than one dollar. Not over ninety cents should be paid and eighty-five cents is the general price for such books. In this way the library gets a book in a good, strong library binding for less than the cost of the original edition in publisher's cover. Furthermore all labor involved in sending the book to the bindery and receiving it again--no inconsiderable item--is eliminated.