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Posted By: Max Weder

Dan

I'm not sure even something like that works. My favorite story on this is for a rare baseball book in dust jacket (printed in the 1920s, and not Busting Em ) which I found on-line. The book was listed (5 or so years ago) for $1500. I have a nicer copy of the book, but without dust jacket. The price seemed high to me, as I thought a reasonable offer (maybe) was $750, given the rarity of the book.

I inquired from the dealer to see if I could get a scan of the dust jacket. This is before I would have made an offer. I not only couldn't get a scan, but the price went up to $2500. About a year later, he had re-raised the price to $7500, where the book sits today.

Oh well.