Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 11:27:39 PST From: "Andrew_Short" <shorta@vancouver-aquarium.org> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1015$foo@default> Subject: Don't it just make you sick
> Sounds as though you should increase your efforts to obtain the book.
> Many used/out-of-print/rare books that I have sought (including both
> of Slack's books, Lloyd's original edition, and a ridiculous number of
> natural history/biology/statistics/music books) I have found by asking a
> dealer to do a book search--some dealers specialize in such things, and as
> far as I know few if any charge for the service. I also circulate my
> "want list" to dealers--I would definitely not confine my efforts to the
> major dealers, as most of my real "finds" have been from hole-in-the wall
> places and from the aforementioned searches.
>
> Sean Barry
>
Hi all,
If you keep looking, you will eventually hit paydirt. A couple of
months ago, while perusing the plant section of a bookstore in
a small city in the interior of British Columbia, I found Slack's
"Insect Eating Plants and How to grow Them" for ( you'd better be
sitting down ) $5.99! And that's in Canadian deniros! As I already
had a copy, it was a lucky day for a close friend celebrating a
landmark birthday (Hi Ernie).
Moral: Seek and ye shall find. (Perseverance definately needed)
Andrew Short
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