[AH] Re: Original ARP books go for big bucks now

From Robert
Sent Sun, Jul 4th 2004, 23:19

The book went through two editions, and so when ARP converted all their
synths to the black/orange motif in 1978, they gave the book a
corresponding motif change also.  Guess they didn't change the
publishing data to reflect the second edition.

As for those high prices, they are not the idea of one crazed book
store manager.  That link was to a "network" of used book stores
worldwide, and so each book listed was from a different used book
store.  So they're ALL trying to sell them at that crazy price.  If
there was a used book store anywhere in the network (most belong to it)
that had one at a reasonable price, it would have appeared there.

I'm told you can occasionally get the book on eBay for around $60-$75. 
If anyone is curious in seeing what the front covers of the two
additions looked like, I've got them scanned here:

http://www.overacker.com/ody/arpbook.jpg

http://www.overacker.com/ody/SynthBk.jpg

Rob


>Looking at the first one, I think it might be a typo, but then I
see=20
>the rest of the list and they're all just as ridiculous. Seems I 
>made=20
>a wise investment with my $ 7.50 purchase.
>Now can someone point me to the buyer that has lost his grasp on=20
>reality, just like this bookshop? I've got two, which I had bound
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>hardcover then. :-)
>A have a question about them too. Both mine are different.
>No. 1 is orange, blue and purple ! (probably designed by someone
who=20
>flourished in the sixties) and has the Library of Congress number
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>the page left of the index. Published in 1974.
>Now the other one, also from 1974, has a black cover with 4 small=20
>photo's, the contents are exactly the same, except that the left 
>page=20
>is blank.
>Thoughts?
>
>Senso

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Rob Williams
Portland, Oregon


        
                
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