Sorry missed your post @hardsciencefanagain! And yes there are (see above) of course there are... how could there not be?WHOA,there are Asterix fans here?
@Extollager sorry for some reason the Asterix ones are the only ones I read now. I liked Tintin when I was a kid. But Asterix is the only one I still love to read now I'm nearly 60.Comic art? What about the work of Carl Barks, the Duck Man?
I found another copy of that 'star item' being offered. The price is a very nice £750 - I think we're going to get our second year in the shop.
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I wonder if books are like stamps and the value of books with faults is actually higher for collectors?
Yeah, I do believe printing faults enhance collectibility (why else value first editions with more typos more highly than later, corrected, printings?) but it has to be manufacturing faults. I can't think of a single way damage through time and use can enhance the value of a book unless, to vary Bick's idea, Henry James spilled coffee on it - or, seriously, if he annotated the volume in the margins - a famous person messing up a book is valuable; an ordinary plebe doing it ruins it.
(I don't grasp the logic of collecting - I just want a book that's not missing pages and doesn't flop open to some particular page - basically, I want it to feel good in the hand and look good on the shelf and, beyond that, I don't care.[*] But that's my understanding of the actual state of "true" collecting.)
[*] That's from a purchasing viewpoint. On the other hand, whatever condition I get them in, I'm nearly fanatical about never making that condition any worse.
Well, and I hate highlighting/underlining and dogearing and stickers and spine creases and... okay, I'm a nut. But not a collector nut and this is OT, anyway.
So keep looking for errors in stamps. Spotting an error in a book gets you ten out of ten for observation, but doing it for a living would see you very quickly starving and homeless.
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