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2. Dust jacket - Wikipedia

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   The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers ; these flaps may also double as bookmarks .

3. List of used book conditions - Wikipedia

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   As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. This is the equivalent of mint condition in numismatics. Fine (F or FN) is "as new" but allowing for the normal effects of time on an unused book that has been protected. A fine book shows no damage. Very good (VG) describes a book that is worn ...

4. Alfred Skrenda - Wikipedia

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   Skrenda was designing dust jackets for Grosset & Dunlap from at least as early as 1928, particularly for popular romantic fiction such as May Christie's Love's Ecstasy (1928). [1] In 1929, he illustrated the jacket for Rupert Hughes 's She Goes to War and other stories , published to tie in with a film based on the title story, She Goes to War ...

5. Used bookstore - Wikipedia

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   Used bookstores (usually called "second-hand bookshops" in Great Britain [1]) buy and sell used books and out-of-print books. A range of titles is available in used bookstores, including in print and out-of-print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores. Large online bookstores offer used books for sale, too.

6. Robert Micklewright - Wikipedia

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   Micklewright designed book dust jackets for various authors, including C. P. Snow, David Caute, Paul Hyde Bonner, Hubert Bagster, Malcolm Saville, and V. S. Naipaul. [2] He designed the cover art for Naipaul's first novel, The Mystic Masseur, in 1957, [8] and for his second, The Suffrage of Elvira , in 1958, both for André Deutsch. [9]

7. Brian Batsford - Wikipedia

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   His first dust jacket was for The Villages of England (1932) when he was 21 years of age. The distinctive vibrant colours of the jackets were achieved by the Jean Berté process, which used rubber plates and water-based inks. Following his uncle's death, he was chairman of Batsford, from 1952 until 1974.