Friday, July 29, 2011

It Always Amazes Me..

My Bookstore 103 students are getting to be right little Fascists about book condition. This is as it should be.My colleague Ann DeVere, Plaza Books contributed this from her Internet rooting about:

Decorative red cloth bind. rubbed at extremities; spine base, corners frayed; backstrip lightly sunned; sm. bump to fore-edge of back board; boards soiled; ffep missing; front hinge cracked; owner's stamps, pencilled name & quotations on paste-downs & eps; leaf edges foxed/soiled, else a nice, clean copy.;
 
Not to be outdone, I found this as I was rooting:

Burton, Michigan, U.S.A.: Subterranean, 2002. Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited/Numbered. Excluding removed first blank page and library tape on the spine the book looks like new and unread. Cover in mylar. This is a #555 of 850 numbered and signed copies.

Beware the Internet Idiots.

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