The Book Craftsman

Specialties

Welcome to The Bookcraftsman which has been providing a complete range of hand bookbinding services in the same area of California since 1931. Restoration: We recently restored a 1763 Bible which had been underwater for two weeks to its undamaged condition. Note we restore, we do not renew so when we finished, the Bible appeared as it would have after a couple of hundred years of special care. Custom Binding: We can bind in leather or buckram (35% cotton, 65% buckram -- very hardy and stain resistant) any book that you can create: your biography, family history, a scrapbook, that prize-winning novel you have been working on for years, your weekly church bulletins can be bound into one-year covers, same for any company magazine. The only limit is your imagination. Theses and Dissertations: We can usually bind your thesis or dissertation in three business days from date of receipt at our shop. You can print yourself or our printer can print for you from a pdf image. We are familiar with many University requirements from Yale on the east coast to Stanford on the west and most institutes of higher learning between.