Thread Name: Most Dogeared images doctored From: Scot Kamins <kamins@removed> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:58:00 -0800 Here's a batch of new images. I'll have more up in a few days. Thanks to our stalwarts Amy Comeau and John Krygier, plus special thanks to John M. Wolansky whose contributions included a wonderful British art deco Moby Dick from 1934! (This Moby, John reports, has a spine number of "4" - different from the American Mobies which usually have 119 in the regulars and 64 in the giants.) [list removed] A NOTE ABOUT ALL THE IMAGES IN THE DATABASE Several folks have written me about the quality of the dust jackets, commenting on how difficult it must be to find such fine examples. Truth to tell, I've edited the vast majority of the images. Many, in fact, I have reconstructed from shreds. (I really do enjoy reconstructing the worst examples.) This is one of the reasons there's such a delay between the time that folks send me images and when they appear. Some are beyond my abilities. This is why some of the examples look stained or very dirty - there's only so much I can do, I'm afraid. But by and large, I think most come out looking pretty good - frauds though they may be. :-D So don't take these images as representative of what you can expect to find in the street - consider most as idealized examples of what they may have looked like when they first "hit the shelves." -------------------------------------