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September 27, 2005: Antiquarian Bookseller Becomes Bookbinder
"Tony Haverstick, who taught philosophy at Syracuse University in the 1960s, began his love affair with the printed word by becoming a rare book dealer.
Then, one day in his late 20s, he sat in on a lecture in Philadelphia by Fritz Eberhardt, who the Du Ponts had brought to America to do work for themselves after World War II.
Haverstick was enthralled. He went to work for Eberhardt, helping him to restore old books and watching him design new book covers that honored the past.
In 1970, he set up shop himself and eventually located at 28 N. Water St. Afterward, he found out a Lancaster bookbinder, Charles Kraus, had lived there in the mid 1800s."
