What matters to you: grade, cover cut, or page quality?

[Silver Surfer]

All of the above although I typically will not buy cream pages unless its a GA book and I'm not a big fan of miswraps.

[EJR]

To me its a no brainer cause if a book has really dark pages than its not going to be around for long no matter if its really high grade or has a perfect cut!

[BassGMan]

I'm far from being a "label chaser" so the actual grade is not my concern. Sure I like the best book that I am willing to pay for, but eye appeal to me is by far the most important aspect. I'd rather pay the same price for a beautifully cut and centered 8.5 than I would an offset 9.4 with a thick white line down the spine (unless the goal was to flip). Minor spine creases and dinged corners do not bother me the way miscuts do. Miscuts are ugly and can be seen easily from across the room, usually. Minor imperfections on the spine and corners cannot. Interior page quality does matter to me as I do like the entire book to be as "fresh" as possible, but it does not play a large part in what I am willing to pay unless the page quality is less than Off-White.