Bound the Player's manual many months ago to test out doing a perfect binding technique. I finally got around to binding the Referee's manual yesterday/today:


The weight I used to press things together when I glued the cover on seemed appropriate:


I just used a simple perfect binding. It's just clamping the block together and then gluing the edge that will be the spine. The player's manual I used a weird silcone adhesive which I didn't like how it set up. For all of my bindings since I've used an acid free version of Tacky Glue.

For some books I'll also glue on a piece of cloth to the spine but the back side of it isn't glued to the cover. I think it helps it lay open better.

In any case I think they turned out nice. Frazetta always goes well with swords and sorcery. :-)

Two guesses which is the player's manual and which is the refererre's.