Anyone who handles old books knows the above images well: the spine lining, glue, or endsheets on that 20th-century case binding have finally given out, and the textblock has all but ripped itself out of its covering. If the cloth case is also in tatters, a cloth re-back is often the surest course of action to get the book back into working order. Oftentimes, however, when it's only the cheap mull or excessive hide glue that have loosed the book from its place, the case itself is in more or less perfect order, and it seems a shame to carve it up to complete a full re-back. Enter the Cloth Re-casing, a sort of modified reback procedure that offers the strengths of a full reback while maintaining even more of the original case materials, resulting in an almost invisible repair.
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'Carrots' came to me in decent shape from a $1 sale, but the joints were torn and the textblock was solid be separated from the covers.
 The textblock had taken parts of the front and back pastedown with it, but they were still present, so I saved them for later.
Here's the completed reback. After the endbands, the spine was lined with another layer of kozo paper, then linen, then paper. A new spine piece was fitted into the boards, new spine cloth was toned to match the existing cloth, then everything was slid, glued, and pressed together.  
 New bookcloth toned to match the original. Since this piece is only visible at the hinges, that's the color I aimed to match.
 
 Detail of the worn, broken sewing.  Given the state of disrepair, the rest of the sewing was removed so that pages could be repaired and new, stronger sewing could be added.
 The stack of completely repaired and re-punched signatures.
 
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