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Originally Posted by NNolan
This subject reminded me of my favorite downtown bookstore when I was in high school. They had walls of shelves of paperbacks with no front covers, sold for a fraction of the cover price. It's probably illegal to sell paperbacks with no front covers now, but 50 years ago this book store did it. Without a front cover you really had to have an intriguing title for me to dig that book out of a big stack of books to see if it was something I wanted to read. Alas, that book store is long gone, but I still remember it, and their rock bottom prices, fondly.
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It was and is fraud. Someone was refunded the cost of those books. That's why the covers were missing.
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