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If you could buy a "Key" book but it needed restorarion would you?

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Would you buy a Key book if it needed restoration  

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  1. 1. Would you buy a Key book if it needed restoration

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Boozad

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If you're happy owning a restored book, I would weigh up the cost of the book plus the resto work against what the book would grade out at and how much they fetch. If it's a keeper and works out cheaper then I'd go for it.

 

I probably just stated the obvious there but still...

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slym2none

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Restoration FOR preservation can never be a bad thing, right? If the resto means the book will be around for 50-60 more years in a whole state, I definitely can't have any problems with that.

 

 

 

-slym

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Point Five

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Im looking at a possible Flash 123.

Cover is split and off the book

Unless this book is much scarcer and much pricier than I think, I would pass. I would guess that for the price of the Fair book plus the restoration, you can just find a slightly nicer copy. (shrug)

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s-man

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Id buy it...but wouldnt get the resto work

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Jeffro.

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Lets say you had a chance to buy a key book that defined major change in an era but it needed Major work would you buy it?

 

 

It all depends on what it looks like. I don't have the extra cash for major restoration work so that means I'm leaving it as is. I'm not a huge fan of comics that are either missing pages or have horrible eye appeal, key book or not. I would probably pass unless I thought I could resell it.

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