thanks guys, yeah when I saw it on the back wall at my LCS, I was like wow, this thing is a really nice book, then the owner told me that the cover was detached, and I was like "ah man", but then I just kept looking, and the pages were nice too, I feel they are white, but obviously they are off-white to white according to PGX, and the back cover is clean, he wanted $300, but I offered him $200 (thinking that he would counter with $250, but he didn't,)
he said since the cover was detached that he would take $200, so then I just couldn't pass it up, plus if I ever upgrade I'm fairly sure I could get my investment back on this one.