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Roman Reads — Bindery & PressWork order · print on demand
No. 0001
Titleany book you can name
Editionthe one you remember
Copies1yes, just one.
Dueseven days from stamp
Specification

Any book. One copy.
Seven days.

Out of print, never printed here, or written by you — there is no stock and no warehouse. There is a press, and there is your request.

✂ tear here
Request a quote quotes answered within one working day
yours — day zero
not printed yet — that’s the point.
IIIIIIIVVVIVII the week, itemised ↓
What we take

Three ways a job arrives.

Out of print

Last printed 1974. Printable again by Thursday.

Accepted
Public domain

Nobody owns it, so anyone may print it. Almost nobody prints it well.

Accepted
Your manuscript

A thesis, a memoir, a hundred pages of family recipes — bound like literature.

Accepted
How a job runs
1. Name the booktitle, edition, ISBN if it ever had one
2. We quote itper title, within a day
3. We build itone copy, start to finish
4. It shipsday seven, tracked
Any quality means you pick

One text, three handshakes.

Every build is printed to order and bound on the same bench. The difference is what it’s made to survive.

the text never changes — the handshake does.
I Paperbackthe reading copy
Cover300gsm matte, colour
Pages80gsm cream bookwove
Feel in handlight, lendable
II Hardcoverthe keeper
Boards2.5mm, printed casing
Spinecase-bound, rounded
Feel in handsolid, shelf-proof
III Clothboundthe heirloom
Boardsbook cloth over 3mm
Letteringhot foil, sewn signatures
Feel in handheavier than it looks
Plate II — three bindings, fanned for choosing
How the week goes

Seven days on the counter spike.

read it bottom-up, the way a spike fills —

Plate III — one working week, impaled in order
Day 7Parcel tied. Courier called.Shipped
Day 6Bound, trimmed, inspected twice.
Day 5Folded, gathered, pressed overnight.
Day 4Printed — one copy, start to finish.
Day 3Corrections in. Pages locked.
Day 2Proof printed. Margins argued over.
Day 1File opened. Text pulled and set.
“If day seven slips, you’ll hear from us on day six.”— the day-six rule
What it costs

Quoted per title, before the press turns.

A 90-page novella and a 900-page doorstop are not the same job, so there is no price list. Name the book; one flat quote comes back within a day, and the seven days start when you approve it.

minimum order: one copy. that is also our average order.
Estimate — in triplicate
Titleyou tell us
Extentwe count the pages
Bindingyou choose
Copies1 — that is the point
Priceone flat number
The one rule
Clause the first — and last

Public domain, or the rights are yours.

we do check.

That is the entire legal department.

Start a job

The book you’re missing is a week away.

prefer email? hello@romanreads.com — subject line: the title.