Got my replacement copy today... it needed really a lot of time.
Package:
I complained about the "worst in the world package for a book" style of Mongoose that keep on sending them in a light and soft poorly padded envelope with no protection for the corner and the hardcover.
They probably have heard me so they cover the book with a second handed not fully closed and bad taped with packing tape bubble wrap.
Totally insufficient.
Preservation
However somehow the book got less hurted than the previous. lucky me.
The corner are not angled, the cover is less adrift than before but again slightly signed and with little air bubble.
The book
New is the inner spine tissue that don't cover completly the glued side of the book and that is too long so that it can be seen by watching the book from the side.
The inner spine is closer to the back and the book is easier to open than before, but not enough to read freely.
The book is again kept togheter by 2 page per side and i'm afraid that these pages will break after some reading (or at least they will be ruined).
The book don't stay totally closed but about 5mm opened and the outer pages are slightly waved.
Images
The image seem to be uncutted this time, only one image, the scroll at the beginning of the book, is cutted at the top.
The map of north magnamund now fit the page with no side of the scroll cutted and was redone changing the colour of the text from black to white so that it can be readed easier except some name. I have to say that this is a cheap correction but better than before. The map now is brighter to partially solve the problem of the previous edition darker one.
However the map is not centered, the top margin is at least double of the bottom one.
Here an image. Sorry for the quality but the book cant be opened 180° and even like this the first page (the map) risk to be damaged due to the unprofessional binding of the book.
Other
Almost all the pages of the book has a 2-3mm long black line at the top outer corner that can be seen even from the side of the book (like if you mark the side with a pencil) that is totally without a reason.
The rest of the book content (text and images) almost fit the the pages but everything with different random margin.
Looking at the book I know that my previous was indeed defective but is also clear that the problem is the way Mongoose produced the book.
The whole book lack of editorial conventions, margins are random and content location is not centered.
Binding is really a problem because is inconstant and inadequate and make the reading difficult.
The book was not made thinking about readers.
However this copy is better than the previous but I doubt the quality could rise too much from that if they don't fix the design issues and the approximative production.
Someones known when the paperback will be out?
