Page has been tested for compliance with INDUSTRY (not MS-only) standards, using the free, publicly accessible validator at validator.w3.org. It passes in some important ways, but still needs work to fully meet HTML 5 expectations..I bought a book. It SEEMED to have an inscription on an early page. But WAS IT an inscription? Or was the text cleverly printed, to look like an inscription?
A dealer was offering an inscribed copy of the book, and kindly sent me a picture of the inscription in his copy. And, hurrah, if the inscription is merely printed, it does at least appear in multiple variations! (Unlikely, I think. Don't be fooled by the pen/ ink used into undervaluing your book.) (If you are wanting a copy, I was supplied with the comparison inscription by https://www.bookmine.com. (This was mid December, 2022.)
If you are a dealer, and want to cite this page in a description of a copy you are selling, by all means feel free to do so. Even better, send a good image of the inscription in the copy you are selling. Tell me what text to put under it, e.g. "For sale from MyBookstore.com". (I will add a "at ...[date]" to any such.)
To feed the Google search engine...
The books I am talking about are the Italian and English versions of Gianni Versace's L'Uomo Senza Cravatta / Men Without Ties.
ISBN 13s: 9788886482219 / 9780789200013
I thought the material above pretty well answered the questions... and then the following arrived from a dealer...
"This... book was in production before Versace was shot and died near his home in Miami Beach, Florida.
"[It] was then printed and released, after his death...
"Therefore, there are no "personally hand signed" copies of Men Without Ties"
So! I don't know what to tell you! You'll have to make up your own mind!
I have a lovely book, and for a long time thought it was inscribed. It certainly looks inscribed.
Ah. But. The book was published as a memorial to someone who died young. And the inscription was supposedly by the subject of the book...?
Please get in touch if you discover flaws in this page. Please mention the page's URL. (wywtk.com/boma/versa/senza.htm).
If you found this of interest, please mention in forums, give it a Facebook "like", Google "Plus", or whatever. If you want more of this stuff, help!? There's not much point in me writing these things, if no one feels they are of any use.
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Unlike the clever Google search engine, this one merely looks for the words you type, so....
* Spell them properly.
* Don't bother with "How do I get rich?" That will merely return pages with "how", "do", "I"....
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