Is there a source online to buy ready-made, high quality slip covers
(boxes) for limited edition books? I need an answer for this within a
day or two. A cursory search reveled nothing obvious, just slipcovers
made-to-order, in min quantity of 1000. We need 100, and we need them
soon.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 13 May 2004 19:54 PDT

Books come in many different sizes. What are the dimensions of your books?

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 13 May 2004 23:35 PDT

Greetings, Robert!

Are you looking for book covers that are see-through or opaque? paper
or plastic? I presume since they're limited editions, you're looking
for archival-quality protectors. Any additional information you can
provide will help Researchers to assist you.

Regards,

aceresearcher

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Clarification of Question by robt_ward-ga on 14 May 2004 02:58 PDT

We are looking for "slipcover boxes": those nicely made,
open-on-one-end boxes that a lot of nice books come in; you can only
see the spine of the book when it is in the box. We are a (very) small
press that is publishing a book of poetry for the first time (we
specialize in facsimile reprints of rare books). We are doing, by
subscription, a signed-and-numbered, limited edition that we want to
present in the slipcovers; the regular edition will be dust-jacketd
normally.

Yes, they need to be archival, or at least of high quality. They will
be quality cardboard, possibly cloth-covered. The particular edition
is 9x6 inches and about half an inch thick, but we would hope to find
somewhere that offers a variety of sizes. The places that build them
to otrder, that we have found, require a minimum of 1,000 ordered and
do not stock finished slipcovers.