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Sqeggs
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I like the busy Baker covers.
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I think this was the first Baker that I paid more than $1K for. Given that I bought it in 2013, that price seemed high. I believe it was highest graded at the time, although there's now a 9.0 on the census.
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I agree that it's a great cover. Running away with the milkman was a movie trope from Hollywood's Golden Age but I can't think of another romance cover that depicts. I think the lack of GGA has held down its price relative to its rarity. Baker completists--the finest people there are!--are the only ones who seem willing to pony up for a copy.
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That book (but not this copy) was the last one I needed to complete my Baker St John romance run. Bought a copy on the boards five years ago. I've upgraded twice since then. The attached copy was my first upgrade. I bought it from an old-time NY dealer who had bought it from the grandson of the woman who had bought it off the stands as a kid.
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I have the other 8.5, bought 10 years ago for a price that seemed high then but seems like a steal now.
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I think these are overlooked. There are also a couple of Saunders covers in that run (or maybe they were in the earlier Ziff-Davis run).
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My understanding is that there are still some Sixth Street books that haven't come to market.
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I'm also thinking that the buyer is hoping to reverse the resto. I know from experience that sometimes Nelson & Co. will decline to undo a sealed spine split if doing so will signifcantly damage the book.
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Whoa! Great find!
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Who gets you in trouble these days?
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Yeah, always check the CLink census counts. They sometimes roll over item descriptions from one auction to the next ... and the next .... and the next ....
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And because you parted with it, some poor, unfortunate rube now has a fourth mortgage on his house.
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One of my favorite covers. Tremendous copy with great pq. My copy is tied for second highest graded.
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Bought off the boards almost 10 years ago. Not the highest graded--there's a 9.6 on the census.
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Oops! Wrong issue. This one is the NH copy, although the CGC graders didn't note it as such.
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A few years ago, Ritter had several of the New Hampshire copies of the Texan. I was able to nab the NH copy of this issue.
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And why is it, again, that you didn't sell them to me??
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Yowza! Major congrats! If you're wondering about the market price of a copy in that grade, you will soon find out!
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Was considered one of the three or four Baker must haves. I own that copy, slabbed as a 5.5. At least I think I do, unless I upgraded and sold this copy. (My records can be a trifle sketchy.)
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A more successful recent submission of a raw book that had been sitting around for awhile.
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That would be my take.
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Yeah. I don't think JVJ bought the Flyin' Jenny cover and I think he was right. I've a copy or two but never thought that it was a Baker book.
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Look on my item ye mighty and despair! A rarity from that period in which Baker was working for Quality under the pen name "Ogden Whitney."
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All right, Bakerites. Think you've uncovered some rare and desirable Baker items? Think your Baker collection is complete? Think your collection can't be topped? Well, I say thee Nay! I have uncovered a Baker item of such unsurpassed rarity as to shiver your timbers! An item that you will despair of duplicating!
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