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Gwen
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Member # 126

posted 04-20-2005 02:19 PM

I'm not very good at this so I'm appealing to some of you computer geniuses out there for help.

I'm looking for the following book:

Thuis in de late middeleeuwen
Author: Uitgeverij Waanders
ISBN: 90 70072 661

This is a catalog from a Dutch museum exhibition of 1980. In Dutch.

The only copy I can find in Leeds, at the OxFam right around the corner from the hotel I was in last week!!!!!!!! AAARRRGGGHHH!

I will order it tonight if I can't find another copy anywhere else, but the irony of the only copy of this book being in a shop I walked by about 20 times (but which is now on another continent!) just kills me.

Any help appreciated!

Gwen

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Hugo
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Member # 510

posted 04-20-2005 03:51 PM

One of the best book search engine I know of:
http://www.fetchbook.ca/

Feed the ISBN, Author name or title, and the system searches all internet bookstores, and lists the findings by price.
I don't know if it gives prices in Can$ only, but the conversion is easy enough.

for the record, that book got a couple hits, one being in the US...
Hugo

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Gwen
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Member # 126

posted 04-20-2005 11:28 PM

Thanks for Fetchbook, Hugo, I'd never heard of this one. As it turns out, they sent me to Abebooks which is where I found the copy in Leeds.

Thanks for looking Brent, but the one in the Netherlands was listed at $122 and the one in Leeds at $69, so I took the one in Leeds.

Too bad these good reference books cost so much! Oh well, gotta have 'em so no sense whining about it.

Thanks for the help-

Gwen

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Fire Stryker
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Member # 2

posted 04-21-2005 08:05 AM

I won't tell you how much we spent on books over the past 4 years. UGH... All of the were worth every penny.

Now we only wish we knew where our copy of "L'artillarie de la ducs du Bourgogne" ended up. It just vanished in transit somewhere between here and France.

I have another book coming from South Africa. I just hope it makes the voyage safely.

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Gwen
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Member # 126

posted 04-21-2005 09:05 AM

Yeah, books are our drug too- I could buy a car with what we've've spent in the last couple of years....

That and horse stuff, but we won't even go there!

Gwen

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Vicky
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Member # 573

posted 04-21-2005 03:05 PM

Tell me which Oxfam (or if it helps, which hotel it's near), and I can see what I can do if you've not already ordered it now!

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Vicky
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Member # 573

posted 04-21-2005 03:43 PM

(BTW - I don't live anywhere near Leeds, but I have friends who live smack in the centre!)

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Gwen
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Member # 126

posted 04-24-2005 02:20 AM

Hi Vicky- Sorry I missed this. I already ordered it with delivery to me here in the US. Thanks for the offer though! I've been waiting to order books from the UK until right before a trip, and then have them shipped to Dom or Will. That saves me a TON of money in shipping from anywhere in Europe. In this case I didn't find something I wanted/needed until right -after- a trip.

Gwen

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Thomas james hayman
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posted 06-13-2005 07:04 PM

I know its a bit late but UK Oxfams seem to be a goldmine for history books. I regularly see many good books go for pence. You may consider them basic but the stage i'm at, its great.

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Gwen
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Member # 126

posted 06-13-2005 10:19 PM

The book I ordered arrived last week, so I'm set there. You had better believe I'll be checking OxFam out when I'm there next though!

Gwen

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