McGuffey Readers

I have a few old McGuffey Readers. They have been packed in a musty
house for many years. Does anyone know how I can clean/refresh these
books. I would like to display them but the smell is just too much.

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I have a few old McGuffey Readers. They have been packed in a musty
house for many years. Does anyone know how I can clean/refresh these
books. I would like to display them but the smell is just too much.

I have used Book Deodorizer (www.bookdeodorizer.com) to rid books of
cigarette smoke smells. Should work for must smells.

Art Layton
Stamford CT

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I have a few old McGuffey Readers. They have been packed in a musty
house for many years. Does anyone know how I can clean/refresh these
books. I would like to display them but the smell is just too much.

I have used Book Deodorizer (www.bookdeodorizer.com) to rid books of
cigarette smoke smells. Should work for must smells.

Or you can use Bleachboy Palmjobs method and soak them in bleach!

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"Art Layton" wrote in message
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(Ging) wrote in message
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I have a few old McGuffey Readers. They have been packed in a musty
house for many years. Does anyone know how I can clean/refresh these
books. I would like to display them but the smell is just too much.

I have used Book Deodorizer (www.bookdeodorizer.com) to rid books of
cigarette smoke smells. Should work for must smells.

Or you can use Bleachboy Palmjobs method and soak them in bleach!

I am not familiar with Bleachboy Palmjobs. What is it? When you say
soak in bleach....do you mean regular liquid bleach that you would use
in laundry?
It seems strange that you would soak paper in a liquid solution.
Please advise. This is all new to me.
Thanks

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"Art Layton" wrote in message
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I have a few old McGuffey Readers. They have been packed in a musty
house for many years. Does anyone know how I can clean/refresh these
books. I would like to display them but the smell is just too much.

I have used Book Deodorizer (www.bookdeodorizer.com) to rid books of
cigarette smoke smells. Should work for must smells.

Or you can use Bleachboy Palmjobs method and soak them in bleach!

Please desist from your sophomoric posts -- it's enough already!

Mark

on 15 Nov 2004 in rec.collecting.books, Ging chanted thus:

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I have a few old McGuffey Readers. They have been packed in a
musty house for many years. Does anyone know how I can
clean/refresh these books. I would like to display them but the
smell is just too much.

I have used Book Deodorizer (www.bookdeodorizer.com) to rid books of
cigarette smoke smells. Should work for must smells.

Or you can use Bleachboy Palmjobs method and soak them in bleach!

I am not familiar with Bleachboy Palmjobs. What is it? When you say
soak in bleach....do you mean regular liquid bleach that you would use
in laundry?
It seems strange that you would soak paper in a liquid solution.
Please advise. This is all new to me.
Thanks

The bleach thing is a group in-joke. Ignore it.

--
Alfred Armstrong
Unusual books unmasked at http://www.oddbooks.com/
"The eye has been described by scientists as a small-sized volcano"
- Webster Edgerly

That's correct, you just submerge the entire book in a tub of bleach. That
will deodorize and clean the books.





I am not familiar with Bleachboy Palmjobs. What is it? When you say
soak in bleach....do you mean regular liquid bleach that you would use
in laundry?
It seems strange that you would soak paper in a liquid solution.
Please advise. This is all new to me.
Thanks