The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bookbinding \Book"bind`ing\, n.
   The art, process, or business of binding books.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bookbinding
    n 1: the craft of binding books

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "bookbinding":
   Smyth sewing, backing, bibliopegy, binder board, binding,
   book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookcase, case, casemaking,
   casing-in, collating, collating mark, cover, dust cover,
   dust jacket, folding, footband, gathering, gluing-off,
   hard binding, headband, jacket, library binding, lining, lining-up,
   mechanical binding, niggerhead, perfect binding, plastic binding,
   rounding, saddle stitching, sewing, side sewing, signature,
   slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, spiral binding,
   stamping, stapling, tailband, tipping, trimming, wire stitching,
   wrapper