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Over the Seas...
As a collector, I tend to look for the lowest price. With hypermodern
firsts, you *do* stand a decent chance of finding a copy of a title you want in a thrift or at a garage sale, but another pattern is emerging for me that seems to work very well. Overseas. I am told that a sales truism is that "Americans don't like to buy outside of the USA". Several manufacturers in Vancouver that I know have US mail boxes to facilitate replies to an American address. "We would lose sales if we used our Canadian address", they tell me. So, of recent, I have hunted for first in the UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. All have arrived, in promised shape and condition, and for one quarter or less of the asking price for the same book, in the same/similar condition from either American or Canadian sellers. One writer I enjoy is Robert B. Parker. His first books are pricey, as one might expect in today's marketplace. "The Godwulf Manuscript", his first, normally heads up from $100. Mine came in from the UK at one third that price, and mail costs were only fractionally above normal freight from the USA. Another early Parker arrived from Australia for one-quarter the American price. These are first American editions, not UK or Australian ones. Now, Parker is never complete - he keeps writing two or three books a year and, as he says, all first draft with no outline, no revisions. I expect that my collection will be complete-to-date in a few months and if I have to pay through the nose for one or two, at least I know the rest came in at a reduced cost. Willow |
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