$900 Grandmothers aka Out Of Print Book Price Sticker Shock: Post Yr Links Here

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0883853183/ref=nosim/weisstein-20

$2.5K for a new copy of Mathematical Gems III (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) (Pt.3) Paperback – September 11, 1997
by Ross Honsberger. Used not so bad though.

http://www.amazon.com/Travelling-people-B-S-Johnson/dp/B0019Y3X7S

found the paperback for $5 a few years back and didn't know till recently that it hasn't been reprinted since the mid-sixties

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9781402002267

A Million Random Digits With 100,000 Normal Deviates
Hardcover, $272

http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0029257905/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

i've wanted this for so long

Should have posted that mine was:

Appraising Lakatos: Mathematics, Methodology, and the Man (Vienna Circle Institute Library)Mar 31, 2002
by György Kampis and Ladislav Kvasz
Hardcover $269.00

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/merlins-magic/author/helen-clare/

My family's had a copy since the 50's, it's great, wish the NYRB or some other publishing house would reprint it.

o MAN that book of rand corp tables. that's a steal frankly.

the comments

so many wiseasses

At first, I was overjoyed when I received my copy of this book. However, when an enemy in my department showed me HER copy, I found that they were the OPPOSITE of random - they were IDENTICAL.

Its list of deviates is very nice for someone in my profession, however.

Mad stuff here: http://www.amazon.com/Period-Whisky-Trollope-Anthony-Paperback/dp/B00IIBE8H4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429671609&sr=1-1&keywords=%22whisky+priest+book%22
That's a print-on-demand book I published, which you can buy new for $15, or else get it for $800+ from this maniac

And here's another one I published, new for $13 or else $200+ here: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=14096693693&searchurl=kn%3D%22whisky+priest+book%22%26sortby%3D1

someone didn't get the news that scupltor's daughter has been republished:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=781954055

$1820 for an ex-library copy if anyone's tempted

Colloquial Bengali, 2008 Edition.
Paperback from $250.01

http://www.amazon.com/Colloquial-Bengali-paperback-Mithun-Paperback/dp/B00OX8WUVM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1442588152&sr=8-2&keywords=colloquial+bengali+2008

There is also a 2009 update, same authors, for about %30, paperbook and ebook, and an edition from this year, which costs about as much as an Amazon Fire.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1901033600/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442588654&sr=1-1&keywords=wreckers+of+civilization

god damn it, please repress this!

'Hammer of the Left: My Part in Defeating the Labour Left by John Golding' (Politicos, 2003). someone asking £4,821.36 for a used copy in good condition, although there is also a new copy going for £2,764.20

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B00NPNC0VG/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=

Megan Lindholm - Cloven Hooves (Voyager Classics)[Paperback]

£1,150.81
+ £2.80 UK delivery
Used - Good
MJM's STORE

£1,174.75
+ £2.80 UK delivery
Used - Good
M&E Store-UK

£1,675.90
+ £2.80 UK delivery
New
MJM's STORE

£1,709.16
+ £2.80 UK delivery
New
M&E Store-UK

strange. I bought a used copy of this for $2.99, but it doesn't look very promising.

algorithmic pricing is a thing, guys

Doesn't mean we can't mock it.

http://www.amazon.com/Prose-Transsiberien-petite-Jehanne-France/dp/0300141890

Des Dickerson, My Time With Prince
http://www.amazon.com/My-Time-Prince-Dez-Dickerson/dp/1930575491

Sorry for the 's', Dez, I blame autocorrect

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=16726771879

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Mirror-Other-Stories-Anthology/dp/0819568309
If you really need the hardcover

I grew up with this book: Arabella, The Heavenly Cat:

http://www.amazon.com/Arabella-Heavenly-Cat-Van-Heukelom/dp/B000K0191O

Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About: The Complete Novels of Charles Wright is $85-125ish on Amazon/Abe, and there are no copies of any of his works in any NZ libraries to interloan, eh.
http://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-Nothing-Get-Alarmed-About/dp/006096958X/

not sure if it's any help to you, but there is one novel from that collection available at hard to find's online site priced at under $10.

Oh, thanks, nice find - that's the one book of the three in the collected I hadn't thought to look up ... seems The Wig was republished in 1993 and there's copies floating about.

The $85ish dollar copies have disappeared from Amazon and it's over $155ish now. I'd been looking up Wright after doing some follow-up on Fran Ross' Oreo, but it seems he's just been referenced in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/books/12-new-books-were-reading-this-summer-and-6-not-so-new.html

The copy I have of this is apparently now worth $1,800. And the few copies going for $500 the last time I checked are no longer available. I can't imagine any human being is actually buying this book for anything more than $10.

But, you know, sperm cults

The high price is a little annoying because I'd like to buy a couple of copies to give out as Christmas presents.

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Worlds-Between-Caitlin-Kiernan/dp/1596063912/ref=la_B000APHSM8_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1470308417&sr=1-6

i bought a nice copy of this for $16 a few wks ago @ a book sale

https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-porno-PierNico-Solinas/dp/0938112007/

moreso that I want to read it than care what its worth

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1901033600/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442588654&sr=1-1&keywords=wreckers+of+civilization

god damn it, please repress this!

― sleeve, Friday, September 18, 2015 8:04 AM (10 months ago)

Amazon listed this at one point but it seems to have been put on indefinite hold

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Flattened-Earth-Enlightenment/dp/B010DS7006/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1474808131&sr=8-5&keywords=mary+terrall

Paperback slightly cheaper: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Flattened-Earth-Enlightenment/dp/B01JXSL6IE/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1474808131&sr=8-4&keywords=mary+terrall
Although there is in act a third entry with a reasonable price as well. Does this happen often?

https://www.amazon.com/Confession-Paperback-Domenic-Stansberry-2004-11-01/dp/B01FKS7LFI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1476064097&sr=8-5&keywords=stansberry+confessions
Maybe I should have held on to my copy. Although other offers orders of magnitude cheaper.

had an inkling to buy this pre-order or rt when it was published, shdve pulled the trigger

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0996744738/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3J5GW8ANFZN82&coliid=I204XMH1YADJIA

https://www.amazon.com/What-Duck-Done-Tim-Tindall/dp/0970138903

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/AUDUBON,-JOHN-1785-1851-AND-REV-JOHN-BACHMAN-1790-1874-?cm_sp=brcr-_-bdp-_-author

I've been after a copy of Action: The Story Of A Violent Comic for years. Look how much these clowns are selling it for, sheer madness.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B01F81YCMW/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&qid=1481143358&sr=8-2

Another seller has it for a slightly more realistic £90, but that's still a little too much.

https://smile.amazon.com/Writing-Becketts-Letters-Cahiers-George/dp/0956509274

I was really interested in this when it came out, but put it off because it was kinda expensive. Little did I know.

Funnily enough, you can buy a box of the first 28 books in the Cahiers series for half that price (£400), which still includes this book. You just can't buy it as a standalone anymore.

There's an upcoming Krasznohorkai book in that series, but it's US$50 for 96 pages, so I won't be able to buy that

lol there's a used mass market paperback copy of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero going for $3k on amazon

ha lol. I was going to complain about used copies of Get in the Van going for $47 on amazon but then I saw that you can get it new directly from his merch page for $25

https://www.amazon.com/This-Reggae-Music-Story-Jamaicas/dp/0802138284/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=PQDCEE9A17ERDC2P3X70

Library Binding
from $500.00
1 Used from $500.00

(Paperback more reasonable.

Somebody wants $999.61 for this one
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Inside-Robert-Silverberg/dp/B002BNHSFE

Attention, Sund4r! Now only $2,187.88

COLLECTED WORKS FOR GUITAR CHOROS NO1/ETUDES/PRELUDES/ SUITE POPULAIRE BRESILIENNE by Heitor Villa-Lobos (February 01,2001) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015X3XYBU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cDj4Ab1NRXJN7

Not quite $900- only $715.36! Introduction by Damon Knight!

Casey Agonistes, and other science fiction and fantasy stories https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060129115/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Hvp5AbAWW8ES5

https://www.amazon.com/Tragedie-Hamlet-George-MacDonald-Original/dp/1881084388/

Hardcover
from $711.52
2 Used from $711.52
1 New from $1,273.92

USED (1) FROM $454.99
https://www.amazon.com/Esperanto-English-Dictionary-Montagu-C-Butler/dp/0685716015

$900 (just like in the title!) for Slonimsky’s The Road to Music https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007DT78Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VbRcBb6X6R8YH

Attention, Sund4r! Now only $2,187.88

COLLECTED WORKS FOR GUITAR CHOROS NO1/ETUDES/PRELUDES/ SUITE POPULAIRE BRESILIENNE by Heitor Villa-Lobos (February 01,2001) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015X3XYBU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cDj4Ab1NRXJN7🕸

Only $778.77. Middle digit cleverly incremented by one to add complexity.
https://www.amazon.com/Climbers-Novel-M-John-Harrison/dp/0753819554

Used from £3.13...

It's also listing one for a penny, plus 6 quid postage from the states...

£0.01 Used - Like New
+ £5.98 Delivery
owlsmart_usa

Pronounce it Perfectly in Russian: Book with 2 Cassettes (Pronounce it Perfectly Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812080165/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_JHZuBb1690PE2

USED (3) FROM $191.60
TRADE IN FOR $2.50

https://www.amazon.com/Duden-Oxford-Kepes-Szotar-Hungarian-Spanish-Spanish-Hungarian/dp/B0098TV43Q
$713.52

Btw, koogs otm, Climbers does seem to have, um, climbed down quite a bit.

£0.01 Used - Like New
+ £5.98 Delivery
owlsmart_usa

owlsmart seem to do this a lot - sell you the book for nothing but charge double for the postage. Annoys me a bit.

Dug this out the other day, copy bought from a Glasgow charity shop a few years ago. Looked inside at the pencil price that I paid - £1.50.

https://beta.photobucket.com/u/Andrew_Littlefield/p/c86e7e73-9163-40fe-8356-410c16bf4dbe

I'm genuinely embarrassed at how poor I am at posting links, that was meant to be my copy of 900 grandmothers. I give up :-(

https://beta.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/s0/c86e7e73-9163-40fe-8356-410c16bf4dbe.jpg

Thank you!

Awesome!

impressive find

I bought a beaten-up copy of Lafferty's Past Master for $1.95 earlier this year, but used copies are selling for as little as $40 on Amazon, so it wasn't as much of a steal as I'd hoped. I'm pretty sure that's the only time I've ever seen a Lafferty book in a bookstore

Yeah, the only two other Laffertys I have are an 80s reissue of Past Master, and the UK paperback of Fourth Mansions seen here in this Guardian article on RAL from a few years ago (still waiting on those reissues!):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/13/ra-lafferty-secret-sci-fi-genius-poised-for-comeback

> (still waiting on those reissues!)

amazon has the following upcoming releases

The Best of R. A. Lafferty – 7 Feb 2019 (few details)
9.99 Paperback

and

R. A. Lafferty: Three Great Novels: Space Chantey, Fourth Mansions, Past Master - 20 Sep 2018
10 quid for Kindle edition, 15 for the paperback

(
also the following were reissued since the article:

The Man with the Speckled Eyes (The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Four) 14 Mar 2017
Hardback

The Man Underneath: The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Three: 3 - 3 May 2016
Hardback

The Man with the Aura: The Collected Short Fiction, Volume Two: 2 - 17 Mar 2015
Hardback

don't know if those were limited editions but they go for a premium now)

plenty of other kindle editions too, 900 grandmas is two quid...

lol

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007FBNLI/?coliid=I333JKYULNX5G3&colid=2KLWUX9O6RPOC&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Used 2018 paperback of The Right Stuff, $100: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30015305990

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Celine-Critical-Biography-Nicholas/dp/B010DSX0GE

(picked up a copy for less than ten dollars a few years back)

The Lost Worlds of 2001 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0283979038/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_r.b9CbYR675SH

$ 437 39 $862.25 Save $424.86 (49%)
& Free Shipping

The price of the Pohl book in the link Οὖτις posted seems to have come down a bit.

There must be some "Artsy" Clarke completists out there.

Lots of these have come down, actually.
Villa-Lobos I posted is now at only $89.62
+ $3.98 shipping. Bunch of others are now about $7 or so.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Celine-His-Vision-Erika-Ostrovsky/dp/B000PK56RW

Hopefully one day you will come across a reasonably priced Celine bio, nlt.

i came across that maybe ten years ago for the (checks book) price of $12.50... have been thinking about rereading it to get its full value.

also recently found another copy of the bs johnson i posted way up there^ to replace the one i lent out and ended up paying twice the price for it at an outrageous $10

Since he just passed this weekend, I was seeing whether I could find a copy of a book I've only read excerpts from...and then: https://www.amazon.com/Shy-Novel-Kevin-Killian/dp/0895943484/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=shy+kevin+killian&qid=1560783473&s=books&sr=1-1

:( I was figuring this thread bump would be related to a Kevin Killian book

One Touch of Venus (script and libretto) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007DSIKO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IimdDbWWX0RG3
$ 264 18
& Free Shipping
Note: Not eligible for Amazon Prime