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To: Ross MacPherson <arm@bc.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: Book Buying
From: "William O. Henry" <wohenry@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 19:22:42 -0600
Ross MacPherson wrote:
> 
> At 09:09 PM 3/5/98 -0500, Pete wrote:
> 
> >
> >I agree about Amazon. There's one very useful website though. I've used
> >Bibliofind to find a number of out-of-print books in the past. A quick
> >search on "MG" turned up two pages of entries (the majority of them
> >offered for sale by Art Spindler in St Clair Shores, MI.).
> >
> ><http://www.bibliofind.com/>
> >
> WOW!!!
> 
> Several long time listers may recall I have quoted from and sung the praises
> of a weighty tome called "The Complete Catalogue of British Cars" which
> purports to have reference to every car built in Britain up to 1974.  Most
> have complete ranges of models with years of manufacture and vital
> statistics for each with literaly hundreds of photos.  I found this
> wonderful book years ago in a discontinued bin in a large super-drugstore
> for the princely sum of $4.00 CDN.
> 
> After Pete's endorsement of Bibliofind I thought I'd poke around and see how
> good it was.  I've been casually looking for another copy of this book for
> years thinking it'd make a great and inexpensive gift.  Well, Bibliophile
> found three copies for sale, very impressive.  The prices however ran from
> US$85 to US$125. Cool.....
> 
> Pssssssssssssst! Wanna buy a book?
> Cheers, eh!
>   Ross
>   `66 GT & `47 TC


Check out Amazon.com!  They have NEW copies of "The Complete Catalogue
of British Cars 1895-1975" by David Culshaw and Peter Horrobin, list
price $34.95, available for $24.47 U.S.!  Just bought it this week!

Bill Henry

2x 74 MGB GT
2x 72 MGB GT
59 MGA RDSTR
58 MGA RDSTR
57 MGA CPE

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