jcjames

My two modest entries to the club:

My two entries, with an old-school sig on the direct-edition.

Leaning towards 2.0, many long creases, spine-wear, 1/2" tear through top of book, need to see the back cover though.

Wow! Better be careful she doesn't get a big head over it. Opp, too late.

Are there two clips? Is the later one not worth it, or neither not worth it?

6.5, soiling/staining, spine fc crease at bottom staple,

5.0 with the bump, 4.5 without. Those tears,

The book is 3.5. Just a bit too much front cover creasing and spine-wear to go into full 4.0 range for me. Your toes however are 1.8

Another set of bargain bin rescues!

Yeah, that's what I thought at first too, looked trimmed since the back cover wraps slightly around to the front, yet the back image is cropped by the edge of the book. But then all that white-space to the right of the bc image says it's likely just a bad alignment of print. I just gave it the benefit of the doubt as being not trimmed though.

3.0, cover-creases, staining/discolorations/water-stains, top edge dust shadow, spine tears at bottom staple.

Very nice book! 9.0 with slight spine wear and small c-b creases, edge flecking and as you pointed out back cover shadow. Can't say what a press would do.

9.0 as-is, definitely needs cleaning especially front cover. Back cover has some spine-rubs and possible slight fingerprints on bottom edge (?). Over all corners looks slightly rounded, front-lower-right corner could be a slight dent with possible c-b crease to back cover at that corner (hard to tell from pics). Can't answer whether or not to C&P but it would likely improve grade to clean cover.

I found a YTLM #1-20 at HPB once for $1.50 each a couple years ago. The #1 graded out at 9.8 Haven't found squat there ever since.

That is so strange.