Foxing? How do you grade it?

[DiceX]

An otherwise NM book, but here is the catch...

Foxing up the spine of the back cover.

What grade would it get?

 

[nik]

With foxing,( which I dont really see in your scan) a NM book would probably drop down into the VF/VF+ range, depending on how severe it is.

[blowout]

That's not a NM book.

[DiceX]

That's not a NM book.

 

I said "otherwise".

[blowout]

That's not a NM book.

 

I said "otherwise".

 

Well according to OS 'some' minor foxing is allowable in the NM grade, but this would be a only few spots. A lot of collectors dislike foxing though ( I am one) and won't consider a book NM with any evidence of it.

The book you have up has some major foxing which should bring the book down to the FN level at best IMO.

[PovertyRow]

So hard to tell from the scan. Are you sure it is foxing?

[DiceX]

So hard to tell from the scan. Are you sure it is foxing?

 

Looks like foxing to me.

Little brown doo-doo dots.

[divad]

So hard to tell from the scan. Are you sure it is foxing?

 

Totally foxy!

[PovertyRow]

So hard to tell from the scan. Are you sure it is foxing?

 

Looks like foxing to me.

Little brown doo-doo dots.

 

Mai reason I ask is that while the pattern may well be foxing, at least on MY monitor most of the upper edge looks gray, not broan.

 

Have you tried gently hitting the edge with a white plastic Mars eraser to see if any smegma is removed?

[ninanina]

 

....first you need to count the spots. Not sure what you should do after that.

 

 

...ok...I looked it up. Minor staining /foxing/discoloration allowed in Fine. Anything above that...and all that's allowed is minor foxing. Don't consider this minor foxing..but it helps that it's only on the back cover.

 

So.....taking all this into consideration...you have a Fine.

[FFB]

That's not a NM book.

 

I said "otherwise".

 

Well according to OS 'some' minor foxing is allowable in the NM grade, but this would be a only few spots. A lot of collectors dislike foxing though ( I am one) and won't consider a book NM with any evidence of it.

The book you have up has some major foxing which should bring the book down to the FN level at best IMO.

 

That is not major foxing. That is relatively minor foxing. That book could still get a grade of up to NM with that foxing level, assuming that the rest of the book warrants the NM grade.

[Hobgoblin]

Who else here has no idea what foxing is?

[DiceX]

That's not a NM book.

 

I said "otherwise".

 

Well according to OS 'some' minor foxing is allowable in the NM grade, but this would be a only few spots. A lot of collectors dislike foxing though ( I am one) and won't consider a book NM with any evidence of it.

The book you have up has some major foxing which should bring the book down to the FN level at best IMO.

 

That is not major foxing. That is relatively minor foxing. That book could still get a grade of up to NM with that foxing level, assuming that the rest of the book warrants the NM grade.

 

I guess that was more of my question.

Where does this fall? Major, Minor, Moderate, etc.?

Thanks for the information, guys.

[divad]

That's not a NM book.

 

I said "otherwise".

 

Well according to OS 'some' minor foxing is allowable in the NM grade, but this would be a only few spots. A lot of collectors dislike foxing though ( I am one) and won't consider a book NM with any evidence of it.

The book you have up has some major foxing which should bring the book down to the FN level at best IMO.

 

That is not major foxing. That is relatively minor foxing. That book could still get a grade of up to NM with that foxing level, assuming that the rest of the book warrants the NM grade.

 

Au contraire, I consider it to be at least "minor" bordering on "moderate"

[ninanina]

 

I guess that was more of my question.

Where does this fall? Major, Minor, Moderate, etc.?

Thanks for the information, guys.

 

...I'd say moderate. Certainly more than minor.

[Zonker]

Who else here has no idea what foxing is?

 

Official Foxing Thread

 

For the record, I'd call Dice's book 'moderate' foxing.

 

Hey Arnold-- another suggestion for the next grading guide-- pictures of minor, moderate, major foxing levels.

[DiceX]

Hey Arnold-- another suggestion for the next grading guide-- pictures of minor, moderate, major foxing levels.

 

Yes, please!

[VintageComics]

Who else here has no idea what foxing is?

 

Don't know what foxing is? Look at the picture

This is more than just minor foxing. at least moderate. Anybody noticed that some books are prone to foxing? I've noticed several DD #158's (from different parts of the country) with this flaw on the lower back cover....

[DiceX]

I've seen books literally covered in foxing.

Like the whole thing had a brown cast to it.

I would call this "Severe".

My book seems pretty "Minor" compared to that.

 

I was trying to get an idea of what "Minor", "Moderate", "Severe", etc. would be.

Thanks for the help!