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The folded flaps wrap around the front and back of the book covers to protect books from dirt and damage. Home helpful resources buyers guides book care and book repair. Looking for book jacket cover for books without dust jackets. The dust jacket is an opportunity to show off your book s professional, unique look. Farahs guide david farahs farahs guide is the nancy drew bible to determine the printing and value of nancy drew books. The dust jacket on a first edition of the first nancy drew book is now worth approximately seven times that of the book. Lady bluestocking facsimile dust jacketsdetailshow to. Hardcover book jacket covers book jacket covers on sheets.
The most common dust jackets material is polyester. Im constantly searching for books with jackets, but also for jacketless copies of those same editions in order to restore jackets to them. Dust jackets are detachable covers that wrap around your book and are held into place with folded flaps. Jan 20, 2021 facsimile dust jackets llc is the sole funding for mark terrys dust jacket archive project. Naturally they want to know what the book is about. Brodex is designed to be one of the best cleaning products you can buy for glossy book jacket covers. Michael chabon the yiddish policemens union 1st hugo winner. Dust jackets only sets are perfect for adding personal flair to your favorite series. The oakdale affair facsimile dust jacket 1st grosset ed. The dust jackets themselves were worthless and the plain paper was discarded when the books were unwrapped for display in bookstores. We proudly offer six different styles of covers, including center slit book jacket covers, multifit book jacket covers, open edge book jacket covers, polyjac book jacket covers, processor book jacket covers and profit book jacket covers.
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Like to be able to edit the dust cover and just print it. These jackets enhance the look of bestselling book series and make a statement on your shelves. Nancy drew values and collecting tips series books. This is a unique specialty feature because it is an opportunity to provide the reader with another piece of art. Entel bulten is the name of the local weekly bulletin with 6300 followers since 2010. Make sure this fits by entering your model number these high quality archival book jacket covers are centerloading for dust jackets. Often, book club editions will have an string of numbers on the last page of the book near the margin, running vertically, just before the endpaper. A facsimile jacket does not add the same value to an older book that the original dust jacket in the same condition would add. The most common book dust covers material is cotton. No books will be purchased with underlining, highlighting, or writing in the margins.
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The 3rd art dust jacket for the mystery at lilac inn and the 2nd art dust jacket for the message in the hollow oak are often described as rare but are just scarce. This is a high quality reproduction dust jacket for the famous book published in 1951 by doubleday company. Cut it to size the next step is to cut the cardboard to size as per the book. Before vacuuming, remove the dust jacket cover and turn the b. Bookmobile offers more paper stock and binding choices than any other shortrun book printer. The very first dust jackets or dust wrappers appeared in 1832 with the sole purpose of protecting books during transport between the printer and the bookstore. May 07, 2020 there are special print of dust jackets for popular series or titles. Publishers and distributors practice priceclipping.
The dust jacket is the paper cover that wraps around a book to protect it. Hand made tooled leather bible dust cover holder with handles praying hands. However, since it is itself relatively fragile, and since dust jackets have practical, aesthetic and sometimes financial value, the jacket may in turn be wrapped in another jacket, usually transparent, especially if the book is a library volume. Dust jackets from phantom bookshop browse recent arrivals. The back cover of a paperback or a dust jacket, or the back cover of a casewrap book needs to display its bookland ean barcode, which is covered in a separate article.
Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. You can often find the name of the book club on the page. Apr 27, 2006 furthermore, in an effort to uphold the high standards of material exhibited at abaa book fairs, the book fair committee discourages the exhibition of facsimile dust jackets. Book covers, dust jackets, and casewrap books the book. Turns out there was a extra letter in black font on a black background in lightroom. Also would be handy to be able to order a new dust cover for our other books.
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Our book jacket covers are constructed of polyester and polypropylene and are available in onepiece and twopiece styles. The dust jacket protects the book covers from damage. The same book, in the same condition, but without a dust jacket is valued at. Elevate yours with foil accents, textured paper, and fullcolor photography or illustrations. Generally an 11 x 17works but make sure that you get the measurements of the book you are making the dust jacket for. Condition guidelines for books general selling questions.
A missing dust jacket, or a dust jacket that is in poor condition, can cut a collectible books value more than 50%, and make it harder to find a buyer. I feel these dust jackets are an important part of our culture. Facsimile dust jackets llc is the sole funding for mark terrys dust jacket archive project. It is a kindness if you intend to pass the books on, to leave the jackets on. The next step is to cut the cardboard to size as per the book. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about book dust covers. Once you have these, you are ready to get underway for the next step. Nov 20, 2009 attributes first edition signed dust jacket not print on demand binding any hardcover softcover sort results by authorartist az authorartist za highest price lowest price lowest total price most recently listed relevance seller rating title az title za year of publication ascending year of publication descending. The wheel of time books with dust jacket for sale in stock. The 3rd art lilac inn dust jacket went through two printings, but the 2nd art hollow oak dust jacket went through just one printing, so it is the harder to find of the two. My goal is to scan and archive images of as many vintage dust jackets as i can. Dust jackets started not as part of the books, but as a. In this case, the mistakes were caught quickly, and the numbers were holepunched from the dust jackets.
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