L'il Chickadee

I received a used book in the mail today with critical pages missing. The booksellers were not aware as it was carefully done, and I didn't notice until browsing through it just now and couldn't find the page I needed for the flower on the cover. The book is Fantastic Fabric Folding by Rebecca Wat. She makes beautiful origami flowers and shows the directions in this book. Except for my book where some of the pages showing the origami folding steps were taken out. The book should have been put in the trash or at least where it wouldn't find its way back into the used book market. Thankfully it didn't get donated to a library and then sold in a monthly book sale. This is just hurtful all the way around. I understand decluttering and downsizing, but once the pages are extracted, the book, pattern or magazine is now useless, and it needs to be destroyed.
OK, I'll simmer down now.

Onebyone

I have that book. If you send me your email address in a private message I'll send you a pdf or pictures of the pages you need.
I made many of the flowers like the ones on the cover. I don't remember what I did with the flowers but I made a lot when I did a workshop at guild making them. It's a nice easy workshop, lots of fun to make.

QuiltingPandaBear

@Onebyone saves the day!

I buy a lot of quilting magazines, books, and patterns used/second hand but only in person because it’s not unusual to find someone removed the pattern they wanted to keep/use. It really doesn’t bother me, because I can decide if it’s still worth it to me to buy based on what’s still there and I don’t think an 80-95% intact collection of patterns should go in a landfill. I do understand it would be incredible frustrating to find the cover pattern was missing from a “used, like new” book though. Obviously the listed condition was not accurate.

I had my own tiny “what the heck” recently on an old Christmas quilt book pattern from 1981. It was fully intact with all pages including the template page. However the primary block I liked on the cover quilt was this snowflake one. When you get to the pattern they’d completely swapped it for another block! I paid somewhere between $0.33-$1 for it so I’m going to pull through the trauma on this one, but I’m like tsk tsk naughty publisher!

dunster

Panda, take another look. I actually think those directions are for the block on the cover.

QuiltingPandaBear

@dunster omg thank you. I will un-tisk the publisher now.😳🤣🤣🤣 I zoomed in on my phone and can see the C blocks have different color pattern on them. I am going to have to use colored pencil on this book before I begin because I have a zero percent chance of consistently applying the black and white pattern to the corresponding color.