Spine Repair

This last weekend I bought a copy of Synge, Riders to the Sear , 1911
Luce, Boston , the first American edition. I now have several of the
American firsts of Synge that Luce published . The problem with this
one is that the spine is damaged.

The book has green boards and a tan quarter parchment-like binding over
the spine. The portions of the parchment (?) glued to the boards is
fine, but the part that would be loose over the back is gone. There
would not have been a title on the spine as the whole play is only 46
pages long. So I was thinking that perhaps I could duplicate the paper
and make a new spine cover.

I was wondering if any of you are familiar enough with this series to be
able to say if I am correct in classifying the needed item as parchment
, or is it something else.


Francis A. Miniter