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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4865202, member: 66"]Did you ever know him in person?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I've had two copies and they both quickly became loose leaf references.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They weren't used.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That surprises me. I have used my copy heavily ever since it came out back in 1983 and it is holding up nicely. Much better than my copy of his cent book, which I have also used very heavily, but only since 2000. (I have two copies of that as well, the glossy blue picture cover, and the deluxe clothbound edition. I don't use the deluxe. My deluxe is signed by Mark Borchardt. He was rather surprised when he saw it. He said that the first printing copies got damaged and had glue smeared on the covers. They had to be sent back for rebinding and came back with a different color cloth binding. I apparently have one of the originals. He said there less than 200 copies that weren't damaged.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 4865202, member: 66"]Did you ever know him in person? I've had two copies and they both quickly became loose leaf references. They weren't used. That surprises me. I have used my copy heavily ever since it came out back in 1983 and it is holding up nicely. Much better than my copy of his cent book, which I have also used very heavily, but only since 2000. (I have two copies of that as well, the glossy blue picture cover, and the deluxe clothbound edition. I don't use the deluxe. My deluxe is signed by Mark Borchardt. He was rather surprised when he saw it. He said that the first printing copies got damaged and had glue smeared on the covers. They had to be sent back for rebinding and came back with a different color cloth binding. I apparently have one of the originals. He said there less than 200 copies that weren't damaged.[/QUOTE]
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