Tghutcn Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 (edited) Insides are all firmly attached to the staples is complete and pages are in nice condition all feedback appreciated thank you Edited December 22, 2020 by Tghutcn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelmaniac Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Better pics would help these old eyes... Spine, Spine Creases, Corners, Edges, especially the top right of the rear cover and inside of the rear cover/pages. Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 Will try and get you better pictures when I can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share Posted December 22, 2020 Here are some photos of the spine back top right corner and the inside front page and back page hopefully these can assist you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Ries Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 5.5 Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpoolica Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 6.0 Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelmaniac Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 What I can see... Spine Ticks/Creases, Rounded/Blunted Corners, Minor Staple Tears, Color Break in the "T" of "Astonish. Going by what I can see in the pics I would grade the book at FN- 5.5, however... If that is "Rat Chew" on the rear cover, top right it will lower the grade to a VG+ 4.5, IMO. Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 From looking at the book it looks like it has been wrinkled it’s not rat chew by the looks of it seems that in person on the book it appears to have been with wrinkled the other tales I have from the same owner where both stored in the same place and that one does not have this issue I’m going to look further into this later and see what is going on with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterymachine Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 It could be minor insect chew. Silverfish like eating paper. Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 I’ve inspected the back page of the book and what happened from the look of it is the has been an impact on the back what you can only see very close up I’ll try and get a photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 mysterymachine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lions Den Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 My initial reaction is that this book would fall somewhere in the Fine range. A solid mid grade copy... Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzutak Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Typical mechanical wear to the over-cover (the portion of the cover that extends beyond the interior). Absolutely not rodent damage or silverfish damage. The spine wear and over-cover wear, taken together, are a bit more significant than what I personally allow in a 6.0 FN. But I do agree that you're probably looking at the low end of the Fine range (think 5.0 VG/FN to 5.5 FN-). Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzutak Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 This is silverfish damage. Silverfish typically go after the ink-coated cover stock rather than the uncoated, newsprint interior. Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 Thank you for clarifying this I didn’t believe it was rodent or silverfish but it was hard to tell from the photos and even in person it is really only visible inside of the back page what has happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzutak Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 This is a (minor) rodent chew (at the top-right corner). mysterymachine and Tghutcn 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzutak Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 And this is termite damage. Tghutcn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 I have had some of the Alan class books before with that exact same problem it’s so annoying rodent chew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tghutcn Posted December 23, 2020 Author Share Posted December 23, 2020 That’s even worse then my original avengers 48 what had woodworm going through half the books pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin.J Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Nice Pence copy, its a FN for me Tghutcn and The Lions Den 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
