All Men are Brothers

I had a copy of the two volume All Men are Brothers in reasonably good condition. While perusing one of the volumes, the (rather fragile) front cover got detached. I had to go to a local binder, and the best he could do was to wrap the spine with some special paper. It made me a little anxious about handling this book since the binder assured me the cover is eventually going to get detached again in all likelihood if I tried reading the book. I reconciled myself to reading the book in its Heritage edition, but then more recently I found a copy of another LEC edition of this book for sale at such an inexpensive price that I could not resist purchasing it. The problem in this second copy of the book is that the front cover of one of the volumes is completely detached while the other volume has a poorly repaired detached front cover (the spine wrapped around with just some regular paper). This second copy is going to be my reading copy, but I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to get both copies rebound eventually, and if so, does it make sense to get them rebound as hardcover editions considering these books are not hardcover books. Does anyone here know or remember whether Don (Leccol) rebound this book?

>1 blue.eyes2: I took a look at Don's LT listing for "All Men Are Brothers" and he had a picture of the book in the as-issued binding. As far as getting the books rebound, there is nothing to prevent you from getting it rebound to a state that will last for generations. It is up to you on the rebind aesthetic and the price you are willing to pay. If you are willing to pay it, it's worth it.

>2 Sport1963: Thanks for the feedback. I was able to see a picture of Dan's copy of the book on his LT profile--a beautiful copy but in an as-issued condition like you said. After thinking about this a bit I decided to postpone my decision about the rebinding until after I've read the book.

>1 blue.eyes2:

Yes, same thing happened to my Volume 1. It's just not an expensive enough book to take to my binder so I reattached it myself and now I can open and close it gingerly, just enough to read it. But sooner or later it will detach again.

The cover is larger then the pages , when place vertically, the sacking weight of pages will quickly damage the cover.

only way is to put them sleeping on its side.

>5 kafkachen: stored on the side is also traditionally the method used for East Asian books.

Yep, I am Chinese.