I just realized that one of my posts in this thread (and there have been very few) was accepted as a Solution! Strange... and now that they have put a green tint on the threads with a solution, I tend not to want to click on them. 
@lludwigwrote:From the Collected Works of Bookseller Hints . . .
Books can be faked.
In the world of collectible art, there are many reproductions, fakes and forgeries [yes, there is a difference], counterfeits, cancels, facsimiles, and plain old mistakes. In contrast, the world of collectible books has a bit fewer, but they are out there.
I [Satnrose] once was offered a burnt-around-the-edges second edition of DON QUIJOTE, but it was printed on wove paper.
Famous bibliographer Thomas Wise was exposed for forging fake first editions, but now his fakes are often worth more than the real thing.
A victimized dealer once showed up at the Silver Spring book fair with a clutch of true first edition hypermoderns in artificially-aged FEL dustjackets.
[Satnrose]
Figtree3 - re: “I just realized that one of my posts in this thread (and there have been very few) was accepted as a Solution! Strange... and now that they have put a green tint on the threads with a solution, I tend not to want to click on them.” ----- I removed the ‘Solution’ so that you don’t skip over the thread when new posts are added! 
From the Collected Works of Bookseller Hints . . .
If you somehow acquire a stolen book,
you are required to return it without recompensation
regardless of what you shelled out for it.
.....and it doesn't matter how rich the victim is, nor how negligent or irresponsible they have been.
Which are three of the reasons I will always despise the Folger Library.
The fourth reason is that they sent the Empire a letter suggesting that they give us a course in how to identify stolen books after we had twice contacted the FBI and finally caught their klepto criminal employee and lost our thousands in the retrieval of their treasures.
[Satnrose]
"I removed the ‘Solution’ so that you don’t skip over the thread when new posts are added! 
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Thank you! I wouldn't want it to be thought that this thread was looking for a solution.
@figtree3 wrote:
Thank you! I wouldn't want it to be thought that this thread was looking for a solution.
Figtree3 - LOL! Ya know, I tend to do the same about skipping over threads which are marked with a solution, yet many times more info is added or sometimes the solution isn't correct.
A repeat of a hint that always makes me smile. 
From the Collected Works of Bookseller Hints . . .
Most eBayers are hunters, not gatherers.
Most bookstores depend on gathering over hunting. In fact, most do no hunting whatsoever: they sit in their webs like fat spiders and let the flies come to them.
Most of us are the new breed of bookscout: but instead of wholesaling to the dealers, we are enabled to sell at the retail level. This is a new economic paradigm, not only for bookdealers, but for radical ragpicker capitalists of all kinds.
But usually, we buy for a few dollars and sell for a few dollars more. At the top level of bookdealing, the princes of our profession spend a lot of money to make more. Very little of what they do is "discovery". This is our most valuable function: we find that which has been overlooked, cast-off, underappreciated and/or undervalued, and rescue it for posterity and bucks.
[Satnrose]
