A small puncture and other mild flaws to my LEC

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A small puncture and other mild flaws to my LEC

1RickFlair
Editado: Ago 13, 2020, 1:17 am

How to doctor these flaws? I paid $75 for this Invisible Man LEC which was listed in fine condition. Slipcase is for sure fine. Do these flaws drop the grading to below fine and, more importantly, did I pay a fair price?

Very tiny puncture. I had to zoom in as far as my phone's camera would let me to know that it was a puncture. Black illustration on the other side of the page.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12w3NsoHmd9MF7DnBN4Hh3g9MVY9dhkxy/view?usp=shari...

Spine starting to lose it's battle with gravity according to Bohemio Bookbindery. The spine on the other side of the book looks perfect. Bohemio recommended cutting peices of cardboard to the exact length and width of the textblock and stacking them to the appropriate height so that the textblock rests on the cardboard instead of the bookcase. This would keep gravity from tugging the textblock away from the spine they say.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12TBi-46Fp82ZdEY1KU4cmYQvF8L8Ze9a/view?usp=shari...

Very gentle creases to about half of the book's pages:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12nTnkXFwx2ocvP6ss9l5De3BpZA3Qy9I/view?usp=shari...

2jonsweitzerlamme
Ago 13, 2020, 8:58 am

There's not really "grading" per se in rare books; it's much more about making sure that you describe all the faults. That being said, I would say pretty definitively that that's not fine condition; especially the head of the spine. I suspect that the disconnection may have more to do with the glue failing on the endband than anything structural. That should have been described as "near fine" with all of the issues described. That being said, I'd call that a fair price for a near fine book in a fine slipcase.

3GeorgeKhan
Ago 13, 2020, 9:36 am

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4kdweber
Ago 13, 2020, 6:48 pm

>1 RickFlair: For the first problem I'd rub it smooth with a bone folder. For the second problem is the problem a loose spine or just a loose headband? For the creases I'd stack a bunch of weight on the boards (but not the spine).