best way of repairing a beloved book?

[basildonbond]

One of our all-time favourite books is The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley - I loved it as a child and my children love it too = the only problem is it's been read so many times it is literally falling to pieces.

I can't get a replacement copy as the only version currently in print is a heavily edited version in which for some bizarre reason most of the really funny stuff has been taken out

So what's the best way of repairing a book - don't want to go down the sellotape route as it doesn't work for long

any ideas gratefully received :)

If you want the expensive option you could take it to a book-binder to be re-bound.

Can you not find a replacement copy on Abebooks or Alibris or other second-hand bk sites? If you know the edition and year of printing? On alibris there is a copy - Puffin Books, 1975 going at £7.65. The other copies seem to be all post-2000.

On Amazon Marketplace there are copies of a 1970 edition going for £0.85 plus p/p.

Otherwise, it's the bookbinders route, I think.

Looking a bit more into the subject, it seems that the edition you're after is the 1966 version which was so heavily abridged in 1975 (to the dismay of all readers, it seems), so your best bet is the Amazon Marketplace copies from 1970, pre-alteration.