Hardcover Book Printing and Binding by First Choice
Preserve your legacy with a hardcover book! Our master binders will bind your book. The hardcovers can be made of three materials: paper (laminated), buckram (leather-like fabric), or linen (woven cloth). Hard wearing and durable, these books will stand the test of time. These make superb bindings for a family history books. Pricing: Calculated by size of book, binding style, page count, and quantity. Please contact us for a quote for your book!
Hardcover books with dustjackets
Fabric and leather-style bound books with foil stamped titles
Hardcover Book Printing – Fabric Cover Library Edition – Smyth Sewn and Foil Stamped
Our most traditional, longest lasting binding
Our library edition binding uses Smyth sewn signatures. This is where pages are printed on double-width sheets, folded, and stitched into to the binding using a special Smyth sewing machine. Covers can be either paper, or fabric, or leather style, in a variety of colours and textures. Smyth sewing is the most durable binding, ensuring that even very thick books can lay flat when open.
The book’s title and author’s name can be stamped on the book using gold or silver foil, in a variety of fonts.
Smyth Sewing: A Close-up view of a Smyth sewn hardcover book. Pages are printed in sheets, folded in sections, and stitched into the binding with a special machine. In this photo, you can see the sections of pages (signatures) folded over at the spine. The patterned strip is the head tape, available in a variety of colours to match your book.
Hardcover Books – Paper Cover
The modern way to showcase your work would be to get a durable, attractive, printed, laminated, paper cover, hardcover book. Moreover, we have three laminations to choose from: glossy, matte, and soft-touch. Futhermore, the bindings can be either Smyth sewn, or the more affordable perfect binding (pages cut and glued into spine).
Split Editions – Hardcover and Softcover editions of the same book
Would you like to have some books hard cover, and the rest the more affordable softcover? That is a “split edition”. Some examples:
