Albert Thurgood

It's well read...

It's hard for me to say how far above 9 this could be... what's with the pink bar at the top of p1?

7

Nice condition for a book that old... 6.5

My first thoughts also.. Still has nice colours but the spine lets it down.

Looks very good to get a 5.5 grade. I wonder what was wrong on the inside to get the grade down that low. Do you have the notes for it?

"Swinger" back then didn't mean what it meant since the '70s (otherwise would not have got the CCA approval)but what she said is true for then too.

I collect antique rugs. Luckily I have ran out of floor space so can't buy any more, so I am filling up gaps in my EC and SA collections. They have a history going back over 2,000 years. There are over 10,000 recognizable styles - so more than there are comic book titles. Like comics, they are also ephemeral. They are hand-made and are made anywhere from nomad's tents to city manufactuaries. Here is the last one I bought. It is at least 140 years old, and of a design I have never seen in any book or museum. This is what it looks like - it is bigger than it looks: 11' x 5'5". The dealer likes it so much, he still has it on his web site: You could just imagine that in a palace painting by Frazetta (eg Eerie 23) or Barry Windsor-Smith, who is a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, who flourished about the time this was made.

6.5 to 7

This went into storage 45 years ago in better condition than it is now. So, now it's a ...?

7.5

Was it a thumbtack or a wolverine claw? ;-) I don't know how much that would affect it...7.0?

I would say 4, especially after a clean when it may go higher. If it was me buying it, I would not worry about the cuts. And if it's slabbed, no-one sees them anyway. But that's just me.

I prefer that one, mainly because it doesn't have the distraction of that intrusive date stamp. The BC is not as pretty, but like I always say, who spends their time admiring ads on back covers?

Need shots of splash page and centres, as well as close-ups of corners Assuming they are good and the loss of color on RHS is reflection off a bag and not a defect, I score this up to 7.5

3.5

4.5

Multiply together all the answers above to reach my number too.

7.5

+1

Forgive my ignorance but what is this series about and what is the significance of #3?

7.5

+1 If a book has to have a stain, it's best to have it on the back cover. Who spends there time admiring ads on back covers?

6.0 - marked down for the tanning

The guy reaching into his jacket looks like GW Bush...