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Old February 28th 05, 02:57 PM
Alfred Armstrong
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Wildwood wrote:

At one time, a book's price was only located on the front inner flap
of the jacket.

It was extremely common for people buying books for gifts to do like
most people do for any gift... remove the price tag. Since at the
time the price was usually only located in a front corner of the
jacket, they just cut that corner out, and unless the recipient
compared prices at a new book store, they never knew the purchase
price.


Also, since most book club edition jackets don't carry a price,
unscrupulous dealers sometimes clip a jacket to hide the fact that there
_wasn't_ a price present, in an attempt to pass a BCE as the real thing.

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Alfred
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