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Selling rare books the value of a 17th century music book. Matchbooks have been around since 1892, when joshua pusey patented the idea of paper matches, whose tips were dipped in a solution of sulphur and phosphorus and then stapled to a piece of cardboard. The dust jacket is both the most decorative part of a book, and the most delicate. A value is unusual if it is more than 2 standard deviations away from the mean.
Determining the value of a book means considering its condition, printing, and rarity. Used and rare bookseller websites that bring together sellers prices. It depicts the propagation and popularity of buddhism in northern china and the remarkable woodblock printing technique at that time. A missing dust jacket, or a dust jacket that is in poor condition, can cut a collectible books value more than.
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