Misprint on the spine

I just found a hardback of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science marked as "Fads and Pallacies" on the spine. Interesting or unremarkable?

Depending on the fonts being used, F and P can look extremely similar so chances are that there were a lot of these... And chances are that it may look like a P but is an F that was completed a bit more than needed - lacking another P to compare, you can never say. :)

>2 AnnieMod: I've since figured out how to add pics, so maybe this is more helpful. Thanks for the reply.

I don't think Dover ever had a hardcover edition of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, so that's probably an aftermarket binding - either a library rebind (some libraries used to send all their nonfiction paperbacks to a bindery to get hardcovers) or somebody putting a homemade hardcover binding on a favorite book. So if you're asking is it some kind of valuable collectible misprint, nope. It's still cool though, especially if it is a homemade binding!

I just entered a new book with a different title on the spine as on the front and title page. Hmmm! Don't know what I've done with it.

>5 melannen: Womp Womp.

Oh well, I bought it to read anyways and didn't even notice the misprint until I got home.

Thanks for the info.

>1 PMB_Ohio: That is really funny! k4k

It has been known to happen on actual commercial paperbacks — this is my copy of Unreal City brought out in the early nineties by Millivres, the book-publishing side of Gay Times. There’s a designer named on the cover, but perhaps better to spare his blushes...

>1 PMB_Ohio: >5 melannen: I’d guess it’s a hobby binder: they used individual letter punches and did the spacing and alignment by eye, nearly but not quite right. A library bindery would probably have a machine. Makes me wonder if the person who did the binding permitted themselves a little joke.

>10 thorold:

And a library binding would not use gilt or decoration.

>6 MarthaJeanne:

>10 thorold: I'd say that's even cooler than a factory misprint - I'd love to learn to do that kind of high-quality home binding myself!

>12 MarthaJeanne: I've encountered several books with different titles on the cover and the title page, but that might be the first one I've seen where it's different on the spine...

Based on an ad in the back of the book, they used the same cover as for a previous book, but only changed the front title. Not the graphics and not the lettering on the spine.

>14 MarthaJeanne: That's a new type of lazy... :) And it will drive me crazy if I had it.

>15 AnnieMod: I'm not going to have it for long. I've just started reading it and it is not a keeper.

>16 MarthaJeanne: The one case where you are really happy for a book not to be a keeper :)

>12 MarthaJeanne: So are the works related on the spine and the cover? It looks like they have the same author. That is just crazy!

Oh, yes, both are about Viennese terminology, and are meant to be funny. It's a small, local publisher that does things like guidebooks to where to buy craft materials, Days out for children, ... but also republishing literary works about Vienna that have gone out of print.

Tried it again. Not worth wasting more time on. Discarded.