Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money for a book, even one bound in leather. But one particular book selling on eBay, with a reserve of just over that amount, may be just that special. It's the first ...

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, ...

I am holding in my hand a book, bound in black “genuine top-grain” leather. The edges of its pages are painted gold. It features on its front and back covers an intricate “original” design, embossed ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Leather-bound books are always lovely. But when that leather is human ...

There's nothing quite like a physical book. There's the smell of the pages, the feel of the cover, the literal weight of the bound pages, which brings a tangible heft to the knowledge they contain.

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 ...