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From: Oscar A. Moreno on 11 Apr 2008 16:08
Thanks a lot to everyone for their comments.

On 4/11/08 12:40 AM, in article
4f920974-19f1-4718-873c-4099ab523783(a)w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com,
"robert.corbett(a)sun.com" <robert.corbett(a)sun.com> wrote:

> On Apr 9, 1:53 pm, nos...(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote:
>>
>>> It's probably gonna be north of $100, even used.
>>
>> Maybe if you are talking monopoly money or some such thing. (Or perhaps
>> Zimbabwe money, which seems to be less valuable than monopoly money
>> these days). If that $ was American dollars, Amazon lists the book for
>> $65.95 new list price and references people selling it new for as low as
>> $55.
>>
>> Hmm. I see that there is also a hardback version. Maybe that's what you
>> are talking about. I wasn't even aware that it was available in
>> hardback. I've never seen one of the hardback copies; maybe the $170
>> list price is why.
>
> I bought a copy of the hardback when it first came out.
> It cost only $128 then. For the money, I expected to get
> a good binding. I was proven wrong. It is better than
> perfect bound, but not by much. Plus, the front edge of
> the spine has a 2 cm tear in it.
>
> Bob Corbett


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