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Facsimile dustjackets are like plastic blow up girlfriends. Dustjackets married to worn or grubby books are like a mangy Hermit crab that has found a pretty shell. Just exercise the caution you’d take crossing Frogger’s Highway and always be sure the book you’re buying has that really hefty discount, and still isn’t ugly after, or because of, the restoration. Now, how about you who’d buy a 1st edition in a repaired or restored jacket even when the book is available in a fine or near fine untouched jacket? You would, understandably, be hunting a deep discount. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Edgar Rice Burroughs 3 book lot set: Master of Adventure / Earths Core / Land at the best.
No, who insists both book and jacket be perfect, might rush to buy Wells’ The War of the Worlds with a torn and chipped, or heavily restored jacket, and properly consider it a triumph. Standards vary among this segment of buyers and most do weigh a 1st edition’s age and rarity, so the customer for Fleming’s Dr. Some collectors avoid renovated jackets no matter how little work has been done, and some of those same collectors will also avoid jackets in the condition they were in before the renovation (Goldilocks). And don’t ever buy anything, at all, from sellers who use words like “enhanced” or “benefited from”, or say “sophisticated” instead of “repaired” (insidious jargon), in fact, leave skid marks. The first rule to remember is that they are worth no more (or no less) than they were worth before the work was done, and sellers who imply they are worth more have tailored their descriptions for witless façade zealots, ready to sacrifice reality for the appearance of it. Item #434 Let’s talk some truth about restored dustjackets, but only those that have been professionally restored by the capable and skillful. 1 inner paper hinge repaired else fine in a restored dustjacket. well, you get the picture.Burroughs, Edgar Rice At the Earth’s CoreĬhicago: McClurg, 1922.
Hve that big monster that came roaring after you turn into a herbivorus flower eater. Escape from a 40 foot bear-like creature. And, of course, the fact that our hero faces at least 10 death-defying events where he gets away every time. It's very readable, but your suspension of disbelief is going to have to work on these propositions: that Pellucidar is upside down, yet has a gravity opposite that of earth that there is a complete underground world that leaves nothing but air pocket between two parts of our sphere called Earth that several versions of mankind exist at the same time, from human-like animals with long tails to large, bronzed giants of good looks and full language, and who are the advanced species in this world? Well, large bat-like things most resembling the extinct pherodactyls (sp) of yore. The first novel in ERB's Pellucidar series, we're introduced to the animals and various tribes of men who live in that underground world.
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