Tricky question: Incomplete, staple missing, cover detached

[Rip]

The books cover looks like its around VG/Fine with OW pages inside.

However it has the top staple missing and is missing the first wrap.

So clearly the cover is detached.

 

What do you think it would grade and price at?

BTW It's a very early Bats, under 5.

[Junkdrawer]

Green with label notation. Question: The missing staple was a factory miss or a removed staple? 3.5ish.

[Rip]

I think removed. I'm sure it will get green.

[Conan_Aficionado]

My guess would be that since it's a lower grade book and green labels are generally assigned to higher grade books, this particular book with the significant issues, especially missing the first wrap, missing a staple and detached cover that it might render it a blue label .5.

 

"Blue Label Equivalents for Category 1:

 

Approximately 34% of the Green Label books in the HA archives are incomplete by virtue of a missing page, piece, coupon, or attachment (Category 1 in the table provided above). Fortunately, a few incomplete books have been encapsulated in Universal Grade holders, and some of those Blue Label examples are shown below. On this basis, it appears that the “true” grade of an incomplete book is either Poor (CGC 0.5) or Fair (CGC 1.0), depending on whether the specimen is missing a page (any page, story or non-story), a panel, or merely a coupon."

 

 

 

[Point Five]

(thumbs u

 

.5 is my guess as well.