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Hi everyone, I don't know if this is the right place to ask this kind of question but I'm all out of ideas.

I just bought this beautiful boxed set of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit and noticed that just one out of the 4 books seems to have the pages glued to the spine of the cover. (see image below)

Is this normal, or should I ask for a replacement from Amazon? I think it could be a manufacturing defect but I'm not sure; the spine looks terrible when the book is open though.

P.S. before fully opening the book I "trained" the spine opening one page at the time from both sides with the text block upright.

u/Funny_Background_575 — 6 hours ago