Leather-bound books, solid and thick and heavy with the paper they used 100 years ago to hold the important moments in our history. Leather-bound books, larger than most, written in the old-fashioned ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University’s library boasts an anatomy book that combines form and function in macabre fashion. Its cover -- tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, like fine leather -- ...

Peter James slices back razor-thin peelings of book-binding leather with his German paring knife. “We’ve been doing this hundreds of years,” he said from his Government Printing Office workbench on ...

One of the high points of my book collecting was buying 85 Franklin Library’s leather-bound signed books at a discounted price! And the collection included books signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, ...

When we think about classic literature, we generally think about high school English. Or dusty, leather bound volumes on a shelf. Or films starring Keira Knightley. We generally don't think about ...