Guild of Book Workers Newsletter
Number 110
February 1997

Supplies

Equipment
Latham Standing Press, excellent condition, 29 H" x 21 H" platen. $750. Contact H.L. Wilson, The Bibliobarn Bookshop and Bindery at the Sign of the Rooster, PO Box 154, South Kortright, NY 13842; tel: 607 538-1555.

Hickock standing press, early 1900's, 45" daylight. Will help deliver within 'a few hundred miles' of Bethlehem, PA. Call Robert Christine 610 807-0260

ADVANCE guillotine, floor model, cast iron, bed = 4' x 25", 2 blades (29" long). $500, or best offer. Diane Blakely, afternoons or evenings at 415 856-9521. (Bay Area, Calif.)

Assorted tools & equipment available from Hugh D. Stump, The Bindery, 1074 Monroe St., Eugene, OR 97402; 541 342-7439.

Bookcloth
Rising Sun, importers of Japanese bookcloth in Dallas, Texas offer wholesale prices on complete bolts of fabric. Their cloth is also available in smaller quantities through Paper Route, 404 Exposition Ave., Dallas, TX 75226-1734; ph: 214 828-9494, fax: 828-9440. By the yard prices run from $9.30 for the Goldenrod Poplin to $16.75 for the Brocade. They say their current inventory consists of 15 fabrics but will expand to 60 in early 1997. Complete swatch books will be available at that time for $10, refunded on your first order. Contact them at: Rising Sun, PO Box 515331, Dallas, TX 75251, 214 368-3848; fax: 214 368-4782; copheim@earthlink.net