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What makes a book an 8.5
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What makes a book an 8.5

What makes a book an 8.5? I recently bought a book with a spine stress that did break color. Also had a tiny tiny chip on the right edge. Graded an 8.5. Copper age book.

 

What defects have you seen that makes a book an 8.5?

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to many defects to list.

An 8.5 is a book that looks and presents exceptionally well but after looking at it in more detail there is enough there to take it out of the 9.0+ grade range.

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The number at the top left corner. 

Artboy is correct when it comes to most books, but there are always going to be books that CGC gives an 8.5 to that many will find overly generous, and at least an equal number that many will find too harsh. A single color breaking spine tick is probably not enough alone to bring a book down from the NM grades to an 8.5, and a chip that is truly "tiny, tiny" wouldn't automatically knock a book lower. If those flaws are the most obvious ones on the book, 8.5 sounds well within the acceptable grade range.  

 

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