Berbs Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 Found my old collection (collected around 2008-2009) after moving recently and found this beauty among others. Would love to know what you think. I want to get this and some others graded soon. will pressing help with some of the defects? Thanks for taking a look Galen130 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motor City Rob Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 Awesome book! I would say 9.2 as it stands. Pressing will definitely help the defects I can see. Hard to tell from pics but if nothing is color breaking, you have a shot at a 9.8. Berbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berbs Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 Thanks for taking a look. How is CGC's pressing service? Any reviews on their work? There's also a small printing defect on the back of the book about halfway down the green section under the Honda fit logo near the spine. The ink seems to be darker green. I have a few other books with the same ad on the back and one other has a much more noticable defect. Imgur seems to have scaled the image quite a bit but here's the other book with a similar defect but more pronounced how will something like this effect the grade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 9.2 Light finger bends. Press for surely something higher. Ink flaw on the back cover should not effect the grade. Berbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 9.2 as it stands. Pressing will resolve the finger bend at front cover center-right. It will probably also resolve those spine ticks, although there's a chance there's some color break there; it's hard to tell in photographs, especially with the glare off the shiny spine! Optimistically, I'm thinking this is probably a 9.6 after pressing. My lingering areas of concern are: 1) the back cover upper left corner; I see a white dot there, but can't tell whether that's spurious or represents some defect to that corner; and 2) the front cover, bottom left corner which might be passed off as manufacturing with no point deduction or might be considered corner blunting and keep you out of 9.8. I think the chances that one of those two issues will remain (and/or that one of the spine ticks resists pressing) are good enough that I wouldn't expect a 9.8 here. But I've been surprised lots. In any case, nice book. Berbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berbs Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 I'd be happy with a 9.6! this is one of my better books so that's concerning for the rest of the collection. I'll update the post after pressing and grading. Thanks everyone for taking a look Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisionbomb Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 9.0 as is, 9.4 after press unless they manage to sharpen those corners then you may be in 9.6 territory. Berbs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 9.6 after clean and press Welcome to the boards!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
