Sackolantern Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Good evening kids! This is just an exercise in self-satisfaction that I'm not completely nuts, and that I do have a decent idea of grading after being in this hobby for some years. Long story short, I received a number of books back from CGC. Many were bang-on, a few were up a grade, a few were down..... but THIS ONE was the interesting one! Here are the pictures, and I freely accept the foxing on the rear cover. Pages are CR/OW. Book is from March 1957 Grader notes are: foxing to cover light creasing to cover light wear all corners of cover Look at the pictures, review the faults I've marked in RED, and....guess the grade!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_BEYONDER Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) 6.0? That’s some pretty heavy foxing Edited February 17, 2023 by THE_BEYONDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-man Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 6.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse-Lee Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 I'm at 5.0 based on foxing/shadow across the bottom and upper right back cover and the rounded corners. Pretty book though, especially for being 21 years older than I am... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzutak Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Back cover foxing. 6.5 FN+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollyComics Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 If you bring it up, I would guess 7.0/7.5 as the wild grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Since you call it, "interesting", I'm guessing: 7.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowGradeBronze Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) I've seen worse foxing (and some heavy tanning,) on a silver age 6.5 so I would say this ought to be a 7.0 at the least and more likely 7.5 Edited February 17, 2023 by LowGradeBronze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgross.com Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 it looks like a 6.5 to me but since you seem surprised by the grade, and not in a good way, i'm guessing 5.5 was the grade they assigned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd1 Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 There's a bit of foxing but looks light... other defects are minimal. I'd say 7.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 6.5 CGC is turning up the hate on foxing. Disregard the foxing the book's an 8.0/8.5. Sackolantern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_BEYONDER Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 On 2/17/2023 at 10:11 AM, EastEnd1 said: There's a bit of foxing but looks light... other defects are minimal. I'd say 7.0. Light? If the graders notes didn’t mention the foxing, I’d think those were heavy stains on the back cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grebal Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 FN 6.0 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackolantern Posted February 17, 2023 Author Share Posted February 17, 2023 Well, I learned something today, I'll admit. I did not realize that foxing would have such an impact on the book's general grade. It was very surprising to pull this out of a large CGC box next to 6, 7's and 8's that looked noticeably worse than this 6.5. Good call for all of the people saying 6.5 - but I liked Grandelbo's the best! And the foxing killed grades on a number of very nice books, I think. A number of very clean, pretty 6's 6.5 and 7 slabs were returned to me. alexgross.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
