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Dust Jackets on coin books
Shamika
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Is there a way to find out if a coin book (or ANY book for that matter) was originally published with a dust jacket? This question has vexed me for some time.
Buyer and seller of vintage coin boards!
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Maybe Google its title + the word "dustjacket". That might turn up some basic info for most titles.
Thanks Dentuck. That was helpful.
make our own 'dust jackets' for our books out of paper bags.....
This made me chuckle a bit.... since it brought to mind my school days as a kid... we had to
make our own 'dust jackets' for our books out of paper bags.....
Ah yes...we did that too!
Loved drawing airplanes on mine.
You know I have an affinity for books so let's see if I can help at all -
First, the old "google" database search, as mentioned, might prove to be helpful but other bookcentric sites such as AbeBooks or ViaLibri can provide clues as well. Industry practice dictates a seller should indicate if there is a dustwrapper present or not. Sometimes, especially so with numismatic books, there may be few or no listings for a title. In a case such as this I would turn towards a specialist dealer such as Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers.
I can say generally from experience that books having photographic or printed glossy style boards probably did not have a dustwrpapper to begin with. Books that are quarter, half, & full bound in leather - most likely no jacket.
On the other hand, books with cloth spines and paper boards, books bound in full paper but with one color on the spine and another for the covers most likely would have been issued in a dustwrappper.
Fiction & Literature type books bound in full cloth - probably with jacket.
University press & more scholarly type books bound in full cloth - 50/50, but if I were betting I go with no jacket.
For modern Fiction & Lit books (say 1920's/30's to present) it is absolutely imperative to have the jacket. A decent 1st Edition Great Gatsby might be 2 to 3 grand, or thereabouts without the dustwrapper - with the dustwrapper you'd be shelling out a hundred thousand or more.
Hardcore non-fiction, reference and scholarly books are to me quite acceptable without the dustwrapper and should the title have been issued with a jacket originally I don't think a missing one affects value nearly as much as it would in the Literature category.
Hope that helps a bit,
-d
This made me chuckle a bit.... since it brought to mind my school days as a kid... we had to
make our own 'dust jackets' for our books out of paper bags.....
Ditto...and still do for my college books!
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Shamika,
You know I have an affinity for books so let's see if I can help at all -
First, the old "google" database search, as mentioned, might prove to be helpful but other bookcentric sites such as AbeBooks or ViaLibri can provide clues as well. Industry practice dictates a seller should indicate if there is a dustwrapper present or not. Sometimes, especially so with numismatic books, there may be few or no listings for a title. In a case such as this I would turn towards a specialist dealer such as Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers.
I can say generally from experience that books having photographic or printed glossy style boards probably did not have a dustwrpapper to begin with. Books that are quarter, half, & full bound in leather - most likely no jacket.
On the other hand, books with cloth spines and paper boards, books bound in full paper but with one color on the spine and another for the covers most likely would have been issued in a dustwrappper.
Fiction & Literature type books bound in full cloth - probably with jacket.
University press & more scholarly type books bound in full cloth - 50/50, but if I were betting I go with no jacket.
For modern Fiction & Lit books (say 1920's/30's to present) it is absolutely imperative to have the jacket. A decent 1st Edition Great Gatsby might be 2 to 3 grand, or thereabouts without the dustwrapper - with the dustwrapper you'd be shelling out a hundred thousand or more.
Hardcore non-fiction, reference and scholarly books are to me quite acceptable without the dustwrapper and should the title have been issued with a jacket originally I don't think a missing one affects value nearly as much as it would in the Literature category.
Hope that helps a bit,
-d
That helps more than a bit.