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  • Transposing dust jackets

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 18 10:10:42 2016
    Hi,

    I'm a bit new to collecting, so forgive me if this is a bit outrageous. Suppose you had a very special copy of a book, say, with an inscription, but the dust jacket was less than fine. If you were able to acquire another copy of the book of the exact
    edition, with a perfect dust jacket, which you checked was exactly the same as the one you had on the original, could you switch the dustjackets?

    I somehow think this is reasonable because people talk about checking that the dustjacket is first issue as well as the book, the value of the dustjacket vs the value of the book. I think this is a good way to add value to a signed copy and also have a
    reading copy.

    There might be an issue if say the dustjacket is chipped and the spine is faded where the dj is chipped.

    Please let me know what you think. Thanks!

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  • From Joe Mc@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 19 09:33:16 2016
    As far as I know there is nothing wrong with that. There are quite a few First state dustjackets being sold on ebay without the book for this purpose.

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  • From OldBob@21:1/5 to Joe Mc on Fri Jan 29 16:31:03 2016
    On 1/19/2016 12:33 PM, Joe Mc wrote:
    As far as I know there is nothing wrong with that. There are quite a few First state dustjackets being sold on ebay without the book for this purpose.

    I concur. As long as the DJ is from an identical edition, who's to know?

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