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Tanner’s Rare Book Mysteries #2: The Case of the Filched Facades

Tanner’s Rare Book Mysteries #2: The Case of the Filched Facades

Mar 21, 2020
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They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. In the bookselling trade, I’ve found that to be excellent metaphorical advice and exceedingly poor literal advice. Judging people by their outward appearances? Definitely bad. Judging actual books by their outward appearance? Pretty much a 100% accuracy rate.

The thing about books is that traditional publ…

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