Fine hand leather bookbinding and restoration, antique book repair, binding repair, paper repair, rare book restoration, rare book preservation. We follow standards of five hundred years of traditional European hand bookbinders. Bindery techniques in leather, vellum & cloth hand bookbinding. We bind custom cover books, thesis, poems, art, movie props. We repair old Bibles. ARS OBSCURA Bookbinders receives binding and paper restoration orders from world-wide book collectors in search of trustworthy bookbinders.
Joel Radcliffe, Master Bookbinder.

We would like to perform rare book repair, Bible repair, torn pages repair and cover restoration for book collectors in the early settlement cities that may have collectors editions that need work done from effects of time: St. Augustine, Florida; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Hampton, Virginia; Newport News, Virginia;
Albany, New York; New York, New York; Quincy, Massachusetts; Salem, Massachusetts;
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Lynn, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts.