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Old June 25th 06, 10:08 AM posted to rec.collecting.books
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Default Mis-bound book values


"Annibale" wrote in message
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Flimpy McDoodlebug wrote:
michael adams wrote:

Presumably coins are manufactured in batches as well.


A visit to a US Mint (and presumably any other mint) would reveal that
coins are made in a continuous process.
Coin blanks are constantly fed into a hopper, the blank stamped by dies
and the finished coin is ejected.
The process continues until quitting time or if there is a problem with
the machine.
Increased quality control has made error coins harder to find than in
the past but they still exist and probably always will, this being an
imperfect world.
Common errors include off-center strikes, double strikes, clipped coin
blanks.
Less common are serious problems with the dies (such as the famous
doubled die Lincoln cents) although coins showing minor die cracks are
very common.


Actually there is a way that errors in making a book can contribute to
value.



That happens usually when the first issue, first edition has
glaring errors which the author or his publisher then fix. So the first
issue first edition can be idenitied by its errors. Some of the Mark
Twain books have a whole list of these. So, Whenever they are
advertised for sale the list is trotted out, or a statement witrh all
the known errors found in the earliest issues. Some times with the
further statement, "Except....". And then a price.

There are some books listed in BAL in which the publisher never changed
the date for as long as twenty or thirty years, so the only way of
identifying them is the errors, sometimes together with what is being
advertised for sale, at what date, and placed where [?] in the ads.
Best,
Annibale



Yes but those aren't binding errors. They're editorial or proofing
errors which, as with broken type, as has already been pointed out
are often well documented can help establish priority.

What's being discussed are misbindings, which usually occur
individually.


michael adams








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