Weird Remainder Mark

I picked up some fantasy books at my local thrift shop and several of them
had a big, black, magic-marker "B" on the page edges. At first I assumed
that it was an idiosyncrasy of the former owner ("Bob" perhaps?) but then I
found the same title on ABE with a description of the same mark on the
bottom page edges.

The books are _The Gate of the Cat_ by Andre Norton and _The City In the
Autumn Stars_ by Michael Moorcock. Both are first editions published by Ace
Fantasy.

I've got this identified as a remainder mark on my Visual Aids page, but I'm
wondering how common this actually is. Does anyone know anything about this
mark? ("B" for "bad book!" perhaps? Or "B-list"? Or "Boot it out!"?)

Thanks.

Alice

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 18:52:54 GMT, "my-wings"
<night_writer.DeleteThis@worldnet.att.net> declared:

 >I picked up some fantasy books at my local thrift shop and several of them
 >had a big, black, magic-marker "B" on the page edges. At first I assumed
 >that it was an idiosyncrasy of the former owner ("Bob" perhaps?) but then I
 >found the same title on ABE with a description of the same mark on the
 >bottom page edges.
 >
 >The books are _The Gate of the Cat_ by Andre Norton and _The City In the
 >Autumn Stars_ by Michael Moorcock. Both are first editions published by Ace
 >Fantasy.
 >
 >I've got this identified as a remainder mark on my Visual Aids page, but I'm
 >wondering how common this actually is. Does anyone know anything about this
 >mark? ("B" for "bad book!" perhaps? Or "B-list"? Or "Boot it out!"?)
 >

dunno the reason, but i have also seen it on many science fiction
books. specifically ones published by "ace" iirc.


robert

"I've been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho, played for mosquitos,
And drank til I was thirsty again
We went searching through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo
And Benny Goodman's corset and pen"<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->