Tuesday, December 6, 2011

However, switching jackets muddles the bibliographical

some additional value to the book they cover. Some collectors and dealers, in an effort

to increase the value of a first edition that has lost its original jacket, will take a

jacket from a later printing and "marry" it to the earlier one. This practice persists

because some customers will pay more for a first edition in a later jacket than they

would for a jacketless copy. However, switching jackets muddles the bibliographical

record and creates a forgery of sorts. In popular culture In the 1989 movie Back to the

Future Part II, time-traveler Marty McFly visits a 2015 antique shop whose saleswoman

shows him a book with a dust jacket and explains that it's from before the days of

(fictional) dust-repellent paper. See also Blurb Book collecting Book cover Book design

Notes ^ See "Earliest-known book jacket discovered in Bodleian Library" (Michelle

Pauli, guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 April 2009). ^ Carter, author of the classic ABC for

Book Collectors, reported his find in the September 22, 1934, issue of Publisher's

Weekly ^ See the listing at ABEbooks.com, unsold as of April, 2009. References Pete

Masterson Fancy jackets are mainly  Best Winter Coats  worn by women who want to look formal in the middle

of the winter or in the middle of the rainy season, the nice thing about these jackets

being that they can be paired with one of your favorite blouses and shirts and with a

pair of nicely fitted slacks or jeans, giving you a hot and sexy look.

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