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Dust Jackets, Anyone?
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Dust Jackets, Anyone?

Like a sweater to protect you from the cold, a dust jacket protects the binding of a hardcover book. About 10 years ago, a curator at a library in Oxford discovered the oldest known publisher’s dust jacket was on an 1830 English annual, Friendship’s Offering. Dust jackets were originally plainer jackets to protect the value of...