> Greetings:
>
> The term "card cover" seems to be common among British & Australian
> booksellers and a few well-established American antiquarian book dealers
> as well. I see it is often applied to travel guides & reference guides.
> As Mr. Freeman has noted it is common among philatelic and numismatic
> dealers as well. There are a few photographs on some dealers' web sites
> and this seems to be a helpful description.
>
But I'm one of those johnny-come-latelys who just fell off the software
truck so what do I know. I defer to my UK, Canadian and Australian
colleagues. Mr. Knobel?
> Cheers from Leigh Montgomery
>
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> From: David Klappholz
> Reply To: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
> Sent: Sunday, June 3, 2001 12:39 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Card Cover definition
>
> >I've been seeing the term "card cover" in descriptions on-line
> >(ABE, etc.) of books
> > for sale recently. In fact I denied to my daughter it was a
> >term
> > and told her it was a typo for "hard cover." But it isn't. I
> > don't find it in ILAB or ABAA glossaries; is it familiar to
> >anyone
>
> I've seen it used for thick (cardboard?) wraps; don't think it's
> very common; probably invented by johnny-come-lately internet
> booksellers without much education in the used/antiquarian business.
>
> Dave
>
> > and is there a definition of any status? --pg
> >
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> >
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