scburdet Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 (edited) From my Square Bound Closet of Anxieties. There's some obvious dings and the back needs cleaned, if possible. It presents very well though for a square bound book. My obvious concern is where the cover is separating from the spine at the bottom (I tried to hold it up without making it worse). Again, I've heard that sometimes sq bound books don't get hammered as badly as regular books, but how bad is the deduction? I'm bias about getting all the square bound books encapsulated just to keep them from deteriorating even more. Edited June 29, 2023 by scburdet Galen130 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank the Dog Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 I’m at a 5.0 on this.  Most of my graded square bounds seem to have graded better than I expected when in the mid and high level grades.  Grading squarebounds is pretty tough for me too, either I’m too harsh or conservative on certain flaws.  As you get lower, it seems they do grade a bit tighter.  Is the edge binding piece missing at the tear, it’s hard to see from the pics, if so that may knock it a bit as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scburdet Posted June 19, 2022 Author Share Posted June 19, 2022 On 6/18/2022 at 10:52 PM, Tank the Dog said: I’m at a 5.0 on this.  Most of my graded square bounds seem to have graded better than I expected when in the mid and high level grades.  Grading squarebounds is pretty tough for me too, either I’m too harsh or conservative on certain flaws.  As you get lower, it seems they do grade a bit tighter.  Is the edge binding piece missing at the tear, it’s hard to see from the pics, if so that may knock it a bit as well. Sub-par photography on my part. Hard to deal with the shadows and hold the cover. As far as I can tell, there isn't a missing piece. It's just separated and there there's a tear that separates the thin spine paper from the rest of the spine. Thanks for looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted June 19, 2022 Share Posted June 19, 2022 4.5 Thanks for posting. scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmanick Posted June 20, 2022 Share Posted June 20, 2022 I'm going 4.0/4.5 on this one cool book scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted June 22, 2022 Share Posted June 22, 2022 5.5 after a C&P. scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilskip Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 4.0 to 4.5. A book I wish I had kept. scburdet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scburdet Posted June 23, 2022 Author Share Posted June 23, 2022 On 6/23/2022 at 8:54 AM, evilskip said: 4.0 to 4.5. A book I wish I had kept. I have avoided this problem by having a uni-directional approach to comics. I have more than 1 long box of duplicate books I haven't even sold.... evilskip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Math Teacher Posted June 23, 2022 Share Posted June 23, 2022 4.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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scburdet Posted June 29, 2023 Author Share Posted June 29, 2023 If I read these notes, it almost sounds like the spine split wasn't considered too bad. I'd have said it was the worst defect. I don't remember any fingerprints. Don't know if I'll be able to see them through the case light finger bends on coverlight spine splits to coverlight, multiple spine stress lines breaks colormoderate creasing to covermoderate fingerprints on cover Galen130 and grendelbo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
