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Dear John:

I have found some grease stains on the outer covers of a couple of my signed hardback books - not the dust jackets. How do you suggest I tend to them?

G. Carswell

John replies:

Unfortunately, there is nothing we have found to clean stained boards of hardcover books. Sadly, it's impossible to fix.

John

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