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The Victorian era boards are beautiful examples of early lithography, and the themes almost always remind me of the virtues espoused in any Horatio Alger book of the era.

Any favorites you’d be willing to share?

Here are a few things from this weekend’s toy show, including a set of three premium comic books, a Pied Piper shoes cut-out book, a nice Victorian game board, a Bugs Bunny alarm clock, a Roy Rogers plastic cup, a Little Orphan Annie Ovaltine mug and a fold-out Roy Rogers paper premium.

Very tough to tell without the book in hand, and even then... The right hand margin isn't straight (hold a piece of paper up to your monitor to verify), but the cover follows that same, very gradual curve or crook (lumber term). A book can certainly move slightly while it's being cut at the printer. In those two preceding pics, it looks like there is more of the back cover showing at the bottom than the top, so you should see less of the front cover at the bottom, all other things being equal. In fact, there appears to be a bit more front cover on top. This could however be explained that the cover is pulled away from the staples and the rest of the book more so at the top than the bottom. From the pictures, this may be the case. The corners do look very sharp, but perhaps the front cover was better protected because less of it was exposed beyond the page edges. Of course it's a frustrating exercise when you can play devil's advocate like this - raising issues, and subsequently explaining them away. I would proceed cautiously and share your concerns with the seller.

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Those are supremely well done. Thanks for posting them!

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I'll take 15, 25, and 29 at 15% off.

That is interesting. How can one be certain that once the book is taken out of the blue holder for regrading that it won't be re-holdered in a restored or conserved slab? Surely one might seek assurances beforehand, which seems to diminish to some degree the whole notion of objectivity. Does the casual submittor receive similar allowances for a lower profile, non-pedigree book?

A recent haul from an old-time collector/dealer friend of mine, with a nice smattering of pulps, paperbacks, magazines, and comics.

Me too!!

Drat!! I hope this doesn't mean now I won't be able to fill some of the holes in my Gold Key collection!! But, seriously, it should be interesting what properties they can resurrect successfully.

Likely. Assuming it can take Donald on that WDCS in a smackdown.

My favorite candle cover is among the non-PCH variety:

Well, I'm still upshifting, but I'd say you've left a very enviable core collection! p.s. Detective 31, 35 and Action 7 (swoon)

There are attorneys active here on the Boards who can certainly offer a more informed opinion, but in the case of an estranged father, I think it's likely he would still have legal claim to your estate. It might be prudent to make your intentions more legally concrete.

I think of all the times I came back from a show with a small stack of books like the spread pictured below, hand-picked, and usually from a broad range of genres, and what it must've meant to some kid a half century ago to sneak away perhaps to a tree fort with a grape Nehi and a baloney sandwich and blissfully lose themselves for an afternoon of escapism... So, to trade all reminders of where we've been, of those random and ephemeral tendrils reaching back in history, for just one book, likely entombed in rather clinical plastic - that, for me, is at the crux of the question posed. For me, the answer is resoundingly "no."

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