Hyman Bookbinder, the legendary representative in Washington for the American Jewish Committee, has died. Bookbinder died Thursday aged 95, the AJC said in a statement. Bookbinder joined the AJC’s ...

In his tiny Emeryville workshop, John DeMerritt practices the centuries-old craft of bookbinding. He learned the old way, as an apprentice to a master binder, and started his own enterprise in 1995.

Those of you who have strayed through antiquarian bookshops will have, on occasion, chanced upon particularly unique-looking books. Perhaps a volume bound and covered in leather or vellum, as likely ...

SPOKANE, Wash - Driving by the white house on East Second Avenue in Spokane, you could easily miss it. A white house sits on a busy street, next to a tire shop. You have to look closely to see the ...

If you were to open the books that make up Claudia Cohen’s life, you would find first the doublure, the page (decorative or not) on the inside of the cover. Then you’d find a flyleaf (the first loose ...

When George Kirkpatrick woke up one day in 2009, he had no idea what anyone around him was saying. “It may sound strange, but all I could do was laugh. I couldn’t believe people could make such ...

A former leader of Derbyshire County Council, best known for opposing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, has died aged 82. David Bookbinder passed away on Christmas Eve. He played a key ...