Grading Dust Jackets

In all cases, the lack of a dust jacket should be noted whether the book was issued with one or not.  Spine fading should always be checked and noted. Tape repairs should always be noted regardless if the tape is only visible from the reverse side of the dust jacket.

Ex-library stickers and tape marks must always be noted.  Glued down dust jacket flaps should be described as such, and not as simply "taped down".

No dust jacket is to be graded up with the comment "for it's age".

As New is to be used only when the dust jacket is in the same condition in which it was published. 

Fine approaches the condition of As New, but without being crisp. For the use of the term Fine there must also be no defects,

A Near Fine dust jacket may have very light rubbing, but the edges are sharp with no creases or dings.

A Very Good dust jacket should be complete with no fading, obvious tears or sticker scars, but may have a small library spine sticker.

A Good dust jacket can have moderate chipping along the edges, repaired (from the back side) or closed tears, a missing piece as big as a dime, light fading, etc, but is mostly intact and still protects the book and adds to it's appearance.

A Fair dust jacket may have large tears, repairs, and missing chunks, but it still holds together well and adds something to the book's appearance.

There is no dust jacket.
There was no dust jacket issued with this book.  Only use this option if you are certain that the book was never issued with a dust jacket.   Listings that incorrectly use this value will be removed from active status until it is corrected.  The seller will be notified whenever this value is reported as incorrect and they will be given the opportunity to respond or to simply change the value to None and then notify the administrator to re-activate the listing.
The default value for this field. Items with this value generally indicate a book that was bulk uploaded, but the seller didn't want to take the time to edit their records to take advantage of our unique identifier fields which aid buyers who are browsing or searching for particular kinds of items.  Buyers have the option to include or exclude the Undeclared value from their search or browse results.

NOTE: A detailed description of your item's condition should always be included in the description field.

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