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There used to be warnings on books that if it was missing its cover it wasn't a copy intended for sale.
When I was in college there was a book fair that sold misprints and books with other minor cosmetic issues.
Neither are necessarily fake but different than the retail copies you'd get at B&N.
Worked at a chain bookstore in the late 90s, so I spent a lot of time ripping the covers off of paperbacks for return. It was painful for a book lover.
Ouch