atticus.fetch

Another weird one since I felt it was the roughest of the bunch but came back with the highest grade! Go figure. Not sure what is going on over at CGC but their grades have been all over the place recently.
Grade: 9.0 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

First one of the rest that I feel were graded harshly. The biggest flaw I saw with this one was the small corner chip on the back cover and that wasn't even mentioned in the grading notes. Instead I have non-existent light bends and creasing to the cover. I double checked my video and I can't see anything through the slab (not unusual, I know) that would indicate it was damaged in transit or during processing. I just can't see how this is an 8.0 book unless the corner chip really dinged it but why not mention it in the notes?
Grade: 8.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another head scratcher. No mention of any staining in the notes (everything else was thrown in for good measure). BTW, where the hell is the "light fade to cover"? Nonsense. At this point, I think they just started to grade all subsequent books based on things they saw on the earlier ones. This trend will continue.
Grade: 8.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

More of the same garbage with the exact same notes. I'm done ranting. I'll let the rest of these grades speak for themselves.
Grade: 7.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another botched grade. I provided feedback to CGC regarding the grading of this entire submission and I hope everyone else that receives similar takes the time to do so. I only hope CGC takes the feedback to seriously and when patterns emerge with certain graders, they do something about it.
Grade: 7.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

First rule of CGC submission: don't submit books with any kind of color fade, no matter how minor (it was so minor on this book, no one here even mentioned it). I'm sure that killed this book. I'm also sure the "light creasing to cover" was incorrectly attributed to the printers creases on the front and back.Those aren't suppose to count against the book, but as far as I can tell from the video, there were no other creases or bends to the cover.
Grade: 7.5 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another one I thought would get an 8.5, but again with some reversion. Fair grade.
Grade: 8.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

This one is definitely a cautionairy tale about any kind of edge color fading. I had similar fading on my #106 and it ended up 1-2 grades lower than I thought it would (8.5), but I think this fade dropped this one at 2-3 least grades, if not more.
Grade: 6.5 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover. light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

This one was somewhat fairly graded. Thought it would pull an 8.5 but looking at it through the slab I see some reversion of the press I did. Fair grade.
Grade: 8.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

This one was pretty spot on. All downhill from here...
Grade: 9.0 White Pages

This one was pretty spot on. All downhill from here...
Grade: 9.0 White Pages

This one is definitely a cautionairy tale about any kind of edge color fading. I had similar fading on my #106 and it ended up 1-2 grades lower than I thought it would (8.5), but I think this fade dropped this one at 2-3 least grades, if not more.
Grade: 6.5 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover. light fade to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another one I thought would get an 8.5, but again with some reversion. Fair grade.
Grade: 8.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

This one was somewhat fairly graded. Thought it would pull an 8.5 but looking at it through the slab I see some reversion of the press I did. Fair grade.
Grade: 8.0 White Pages
Notes: light bends to cover, light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

No mention of the double staples?!? Strange.
Grade: 8.0 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another weird one since I felt it was the roughest of the bunch but came back with the highest grade! Go figure. Not sure what is going on over at CGC but their grades have been all over the place recently.
Grade: 9.0 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Grade: 7.5 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine splits to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Grade: 8.5 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another weird one since I felt it was the roughest of the bunch but came back with the highest grade! Go figure. Not sure what is going on over at CGC but their grades have been all over the place recently.
Grade: 9.0 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Another weird one since I felt it was the roughest of the bunch but came back with the highest grade! Go figure. Not sure what is going on over at CGC but their grades have been all over the place recently.
Grade: 9.0 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

No mention of the double staples?!? Strange.
Grade: 8.0 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

This one is weird: came back Restored with color touch at bottom left of front cover. I have owned this book for 40+ years and never touched it in any such way. I was not the original owner (started collecting in 1980, 9 years after this was published) but knew him and there is no way he did anything to the book back then. Total mis-read on the part of CGC.
Grade: 7.5 (R-1) Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light spine stress lines to cover, moderate creasing to cover, small amount of color touch on left bottom front cover

Grade: 8.5 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover

Grade: 8.5 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover, light wear all corners of cover


 

Grade: 8.5 Off-White to White Pages
Notes: light creasing to cover, light spine stress lines to cover, light wear all corners of cover