bindery
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Once a 19th-century book bindery, the building was converted into luxe residences with unique character.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
The original building included a front office, print shop, bindery and library that housed thousands of books and manuscripts — some donated, some collected by Hall on his travels across the globe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
According to a biographical statement supplied by her spouse, Feinberg earned a living mostly in temporary low-wage jobs, including washing dishes, working in a book bindery, cleaning out ship cargo holds and interpreting sign language.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2014
They did exceedingly high-quality work and had an archival bindery, too, and so I just was really taken with the whole enterprise.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 10, 2012
To-day we look in vain in the ordinary bindery for the many little extra jobs which, formerly, were the largest portion of the work in artistic binding.
From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul
He arrived in Washington 30 years ago, became a U.S. citizen, and in 2000 was well into a career at local binderies when a forwarding job opened at the Government Printing Office.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2010
But the big snag is the shortage of men in binderies and shipping rooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every day, the Sisters hauled paper by the armload out of the cell to be shredded and soaked and re-pulped into new sheets in the binderies in the basement.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
I find it takes 7 binderies four months to bind 325,000 books.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Paine, Albert Bigelow
But there were printing offices and binderies in the South.
From A History of the McGuffey Readers by Vail, Henry Hobart
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