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bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: June 27, 2003 03:42AM
A while ago Jon asked about this book and I was able to help him out. Just today my sister looked up the series on www.biblioz.com and was flabbergasted to discover that these out-of-print books are sold thru this website for over $100AU! She has three of the four books in the series, so she's sitting on a gold mine!
I just can't believe that these kids books would be worth so much. I mean they were brilliantly funny books, but surely you don't pay per laugh?
I just can't believe that these kids books would be worth so much. I mean they were brilliantly funny books, but surely you don't pay per laugh?
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: June 27, 2003 10:36AM
Mark you, if some clever chap or chapette at the publishers were to use their brain and reprint the things the market value would tend to plummet a bit.
It is astonishing the amount of brilliant stuff that is out of print - most of Donald E Westlake's Dortmunder series, and *all* of Colin Watson's utterly fabulous Flaxborough Chronicles, just to take two particularly heinous examples. Meanwhile there appears to be no problem publishing JRR Tolkien's laundry lists. Hmph.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
It is astonishing the amount of brilliant stuff that is out of print - most of Donald E Westlake's Dortmunder series, and *all* of Colin Watson's utterly fabulous Flaxborough Chronicles, just to take two particularly heinous examples. Meanwhile there appears to be no problem publishing JRR Tolkien's laundry lists. Hmph.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 27, 2003 01:16PM
Don't get Dave R going on that one, I beg you...
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: Auntysassy (193.132.206.---)
Date: June 27, 2003 01:54PM
Jon -
Good news - some of the Flaxborough Chronicles are in print.
Bad news - in large print books only.
Good news - some of the Flaxborough Chronicles are in print.
Bad news - in large print books only.
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: June 27, 2003 02:07PM
That's a bit piggin' expensive is that. I'm about three books short of the set, too. Still, I think they still have 'em in the library.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 27, 2003 04:52PM
Some of it is FAR worse than laundry lists. Heard the one about the hobbit with wooden feet?
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: jon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: June 27, 2003 09:08PM
Sorry, Sarah.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 27, 2003 09:22PM
*grin* Oh, that's all right - I'm used to it!
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)
Sarah
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: Auntysassy (---.ilford.mdip.bt.net)
Date: June 28, 2003 09:18PM
Jon - have you tried abebooks.co.uk or zardozbooks.co.uk - just a thought.
Re: bottersnikes and gumbles
Posted by: dave (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: June 28, 2003 10:27PM
just been on abebooks looking for the first volume of 'A Very Peculiar Practice' - I picked up the second at Barter Books in Alnwick.
Going rate: $50-$100.
ouch. I got the second for £1.49.
Checked the price of the second, much the same as the first. Crazy.
Going rate: $50-$100.
ouch. I got the second for £1.49.
Checked the price of the second, much the same as the first. Crazy.
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