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The description fits what we have at Holden
In a message dated 3/16/2008 12:12:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rcadya@YAHOO.COM writes:
Dear Donald:
I have in a compartment in a drawer some dozen or so of these little
triangular book corners. I saved them from the books in a a parcel I received in
the late 1970's from the London Rare Bookshop of Walter T. Spencer, on Berkeley
Street, London. At that time it was run by Nellie Clarke and Lydia Watkins.
They employed a wonderful packer. Every book fitted into the box,
perfectly! These little corners were on the corners of several Victorian books.
Mine are folded metal covered in Kraft (tan) heavy paper. Not stamped with any
maker's mark. They do tend to scratch the book corners rather than protect
them as they were meant to do... So I never used them. A curiosity I think.
Think you book is simply a survival of an over zealous attempt to protect it
in transit??
All the best, Richard
Richard Cady Rare Books
1412 Natures Way
Prescott, AZ 86305
dfarren <dfarren@CONCENTRIC.NET> wrote:
I have just acquired a book that has detachable corners. What I mean is that
each of the corners of the front and back cover at the head and tail is
covered with a cardboard cover that looks like the corner of a half-binding,
but the cardboard corners are detachable. To further the appearance of a
half-binding, the cardboard material is colored off-white, like vellum. The
corners secure in place a thin paper jacket that is wrappered around the
cloth-covered boards of the case. The outside of each cardboard corner is
stamped: "Manufactured by WAY & RANKIN 588 Halsey St. Brooklyn, N.Y."
The book is a proverbial slim volume of poetry, _Stray Verses_, by Andrew
Fleming West (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1931). The thin paper
jacket wrappered around the cloth-covered boards of the case is printed.
Interestingly, the author has written his presentation inscription on the
thin paper jacket.
Has anyone seen this or another such arrangement? I haven't seen any other
such.
Donald Farren
4009 Bradley Lane
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-5238
dfarren@concentric.net
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