This is a real problem. I have several older books, by no means heirlooms, that I would love to have rebound. But in the Wash Dc area what you find are a very few services focusing on high end material, mostly for libraries. For regular type books, nothing! I had one local bookseller tell me the easiest thing to do would be to learn the skills myself. I’ve thought about it!
I stumbled into a place in Georgetown (DC) that did binding, but it was super high-end work as I recall; quite possibly one of the places Stephen is thinking of.
University libraries have stuff bound all the time–theses, full volumes of paper journals, and of course, books with broken spines. Or at least they did, until digital took off, but I’m sure some are still having some stuff bound and rebound. Can you ask the librarians at Princeton where they send their stuff?
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