The Spirit # 4 Should I have it restored or not?

[Webhead11-migration]

I am uncertain wether I should have this book restored as you can tell from the cover. I am not sure if the process will do more harm then good.

[Transplant]

It looks like you could wonderbread it and possibly press it to remove that spine roll. The drycleaning would likely improve this book's appearance tremendously. Neither of these should do any harm to your book.

[Ze-man]

Hey Webhead, I think it is more a question of why you would want to, because the book itself is not worth the cost it would take to restore it. But if it is a book that you cherish and simply want it to look better, then money does not really factor into the reasons why you would work on it. As far as it harming the book? I think given it's present condition it can't really make it worse unless it was totally botched during the process.

 

Hard to tell exactly what is going on with your book because it is still in the bag, but it looks like it just needs a good solvent /wet wash to get the tape off and remove the stains.

 

Without more info it's hard to really give better advice.

 

 

 

 

[Webhead11-migration]

Thank's for the info.

[Webhead11-migration]

Hey Z-man,

 

Thank you for your input.

 

 

 

 

[CW]

That's a great issue. Ze is right. You can probably find a nice copy for less than the price of resto.

[divad]

All of the above is good advice, but if you took the economics out of the question, the answer would be, Yes, it's a book that would benefit from restoration.

[divad]

This is what the 2 boxes of books I lost in the 2005 flood looked like . . .

 

[Ze-man]

You had 2 long boxes full of Spirit #4's?

 

Wow.

 

 

 

[divad]

You had 2 long boxes full of Spirit #4's?

 

Wow.

 

 

 

 

You can still see the clay particles on the inside of the bag . . .