Facts about The Importance of Dust Jackets

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   Prominent authors including Agatha Christie and Ernest Hemingway have had their books' values dramatically affected by the presence or absence of an intact dust jacket.

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   Graphic design historians credit the rise of artistic dust jackets in the 1920s with transforming book covers into a legitimate commercial art form.

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   Many rare book dealers consider the dust jacket a separate bibliographic artifact, catalogued and graded independently from the book itself.

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   Dust jackets originated in the early nineteenth century primarily as plain paper wrappers to protect book covers during shipping and sale.

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   Collectors and librarians widely recognize dust jackets as significantly increasing a book's monetary and historical value, with jacketed first editions often worth multiples of unjacketed copies.

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