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26 Sep, 2017
2017-9-26 3:14:09 PM UTC
Haha... I should have looked away!
26 Sep, 2017
2017-9-26 7:54:52 PM UTC
To be honest, they could do a lot better than just replacing with a page from the facsimile Hobbit. Not that hard to source matching paper (blank pages from same-era books) and then print a scan of the facsimile page onto the matching paper and then insert that page onto the stub of the original. It would match quite well.

Not a problem, so long as it is disclosed to any future buyer, I guess. That said, I'm surprised at the price being so high for a book with this kind of damage.
2 Oct, 2017
2017-10-2 10:40:37 PM UTC
I was so ready to bid on this auction but the seller must have gotten a request to add a Buy it Now and accepted... I wish I had thought to ask that!

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Seller: bubba.99
(3372)
Ended Sep 30, 2017
This item ended more than 90 days ago
3 Oct, 2017
2017-10-3 6:03:37 PM UTC
Looks far from "fine"; look at those tatty corners. Still, C$30 is a crazy low price. Seller clearly had no idea what they had.

BH
24 Oct, 2017 (edited)
2017-10-24 4:51:08 PM UTC
"Rare White Spine"!

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Seller: treasuresinthetrashpile
(235)
Ended Oct 31, 2017
This item ended more than 90 days ago
26 Oct, 2017
2017-10-26 4:33:55 AM UTC
"Rare White Spine"!

I guess one man's UV damaged trash is another man's collectable treasure
29 Oct, 2017 (edited)
2017-10-29 10:39:57 AM UTC
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Seller: coverarebooks
(3128)
Ended Jan 12, 2018
This item ended more than 90 days ago


O my
A first impression - despite emails to this seller he/she refuses to amend !
29 Oct, 2017 (edited)
2017-10-29 11:10:45 AM UTC
If someone buys this, then they will notice the photoshopping that has taken place on the impression page, when they get the real book, very dodgy indeed, from looking at when the book was lent out by the library (1959), then I think it is probably the 6th Impression.

Having spent a bit more time looking at it, I don't think it has been photoshopped but that the Impression page has been altered to make it look like a 1st Impression, you can tell it is not a real first impression by items that are not correct for the 1st Impression.
29 Oct, 2017
2017-10-29 7:12:53 PM UTC

Trotter wrote:
If someone buys this, then they will notice the photoshopping that has taken place on the impression page, when they get the real book, very dodgy indeed, from looking at when the book was lent out by the library (1959), then I think it is probably the 6th Impression.

Having spent a bit more time looking at it, I don't think it has been photoshopped but that the Impression page has been altered to make it look like a 1st Impression, you can tell it is not a real first impression by items that are not correct for the 1st Impression.


Almost certainly has just been modified by scraping away the paper fibers.
8 Nov, 2017 (edited)
2017-11-8 2:45:32 AM UTC
A "TRUE 2nd PRINTING"... true (mind you). The seller has thoughtfully included in the listing a picture of the copyright page showing a number line ending with '7'.

eBay item 282725395654

edit: Looks like the listing was updated; now it's a TRUE first edition, second printing.
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