AS ISSUED
A term used to emphasise the original condition, as issued, of the book described, especially when some individual feature contradicts normal expectation; e.g. ‘edges trimmed, as issued’,
‘stitched, without wrappers, as issued’, ‘half roan, as issued’. See advance copy.
AS USUAL
A favourite qualification, among booksellers’ cataloguers, to the admission of some defect or imperfection which is, or can be maintained to be, so prevalent as to be almost normal among copies of the book described; e.g. ‘foxed as usual’, ‘lacks half-title as usual’, ‘Q4
is a cancel as usual’, ‘spine faded as usual’.
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Carter, John & Nicolas Barker
ABC’s of Book Collecting. 8th Edition
New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2004
Thanks to Oak Knoll Press for permission to reprint