Specializing in first and autographed editions of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery books

Pictured Examples of Book Flaws

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Boards and board edges
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Bumped edge Heavily bumped upper corners Stained board edges Mildew stains
waterdamage.jpg (20216 bytes) slightwearleather.jpg (23874 bytes) goldtransfer.jpg (41062 bytes)
Water damaged boards Slight wear to leather of bottom edge at corners Gold transfer from one Easton Press book to another

Pages and page edges
spotsgilding.jpg (13233 bytes) dirtypageedges.jpg (13000 bytes) browningpages.jpg (37930 bytes) foxing.jpg (21146 bytes)
Page edge gilding with spotting Very dirty page edges, very worn board edges Pages browning Pages with spotting (called foxing)
oldstyleremainder.jpg (12098 bytes) blacklineremainder.jpg (10717 bytes) agedarkpages.jpg (7585 bytes) gildrubminor.jpg (20378 bytes)
Old style remainder mark Black line remainder mark Age darkened page edges Minor rubbing/spotting to page edge gilding

Spines and binding
heavybumpedgespine.jpg (15753 bytes) spinecreases.jpg (19739 bytes) bindingseparating.jpg (22353 bytes) moireendfading.jpg (21886 bytes)
Heavily bumped spine Reading creases on spine of paperback book Binding starting to separate, previous owner's stamp Moiré endsheets with edge fading
prevownergluefading.jpg (22066 bytes) gluedark.jpg (19470 bytes)
Previous owner's bookplate; glue darkening front paste down Glue darkening of rear pastedown

Dust jackets
modchipdust.jpg (16995 bytes) poordustjacket.jpg (28699 bytes)
Moderate chipping on top and bottom of dust jacket Poor dust jacket in multiple pieces with large chips missing

Bookplates and stamps
prevownergluefading.jpg (22066 bytes) bindingseparating.jpg (22353 bytes)
Previous owner's bookplate; glue darkening front paste down Binding starting to separate, previous owner's stamp
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26 December, 2008