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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8588346" data-attributes="member: 19857">The Deities and Demigods book is a legit collectible - if they had a copy with a damaged cover rebinding it might make it more valuable than the damaged cover version depending on the collector in question and the extent of the damage.&nbsp; Especially if the pages were loose anyway. ( I would have chosen to rebind it with the actual cover repaired if possible, but if the cover was truly trashed but they had intact pages it would be better than nothing).&nbsp; It's still not worth $650 - you can find an intact D&amp;DG in nice condition for $300 or so.The other books are not really very expensive to get your hands on copies of.&nbsp; Binding multiple books together might be the only way to convince someone that it's worth the price tag (it isn't - you can literally get those books for $100-$150 bucks if you want - but at least there's a narrative there).Yeah that's not a problem.&nbsp; If you remove the covers it basically can be rebound a a single book.&nbsp; Even those three books together isn't going to be as big as a Bible or a complete works of Shakespeare. A good bookbinder can make it work.That's why I suspect they had a damaged version.&nbsp; The copy in my personal library is water damaged and while I'd prefer to keep it as intact as possible, I could see someone else trying to &quot;restore&quot; it by putting a new cover on it.&nbsp; (That is, of course, if they haven't just snagged the PDF that is floating around out there and printed it out and had it bound, which is a possibility for that particular volume since it is &quot;rare&quot;).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8588346, member: 19857"] The Deities and Demigods book is a legit collectible - if they had a copy with a damaged cover rebinding it might make it more valuable than the damaged cover version depending on the collector in question and the extent of the damage. Especially if the pages were loose anyway. ( I would have chosen to rebind it with the actual cover repaired if possible, but if the cover was truly trashed but they had intact pages it would be better than nothing). It's still not worth $650 - you can find an intact D&DG in nice condition for $300 or so. The other books are not really very expensive to get your hands on copies of. Binding multiple books together might be the only way to convince someone that it's worth the price tag (it isn't - you can literally get those books for $100-$150 bucks if you want - but at least there's a narrative there). Yeah that's not a problem. If you remove the covers it basically can be rebound a a single book. Even those three books together isn't going to be as big as a Bible or a complete works of Shakespeare. A good bookbinder can make it work. That's why I suspect they had a damaged version. The copy in my personal library is water damaged and while I'd prefer to keep it as intact as possible, I could see someone else trying to "restore" it by putting a new cover on it. (That is, of course, if they haven't just snagged the PDF that is floating around out there and printed it out and had it bound, which is a possibility for that particular volume since it is "rare"). [/QUOTE]

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