joe abbin's blown flathead book

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f1builder

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i am not complaining or knocking anyone but i am amazed at some prices for joe's great little book which i have read over and over. on ebay starting at over 700.00 and on amazon for 700+ up to 5k+???? i guess i should get my copy and put it in the safe?

just saying.
 
The one on Amazon is the red colored book. I have a signed copy of the white book which is an earlier version of this and it still has the insert piece that corrects the misprint on pages 40-41. It must be worth a couple of grand, maybe more as it has grease stained fingerprints from me in it.
 
Pete: I think you still have time. I can't think of any thing more I'd like to read than your adventures and exploits over the years. If you write it, I'll be first in line to buy it. (But hurry up-we're both running short of time.)




Pete said:
I think I screwed up 50 years ago by not writing a book.
What a joke.
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f1builder said:
i am not complaining or knocking anyone but i am amazed at some prices for joe's great little book which i have read over and over. on ebay starting at over 700.00 and on amazon for 700+ up to 5k+???? i guess i should get my copy and put it in the safe?

just saying.
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Wait, what? Really? What is a signed copy of an 1st edition of Old Ron's book worth then? I got one of those too!
 
item #141235774588 on taht big auction site in the sky. also check out amazon.com for it (from 723 to 5,200) no kidding.
 
I have the second edition third printing, think I paid 12 bucks or something for it. Is Joe Abbin still around? total nonsense...
 
Total nonsense is right. I buy a lot of out of print hard cover books and I can tell you that many sellers have absolutely no knowledge of the content in the publications they market. There may be a computer program that searches for books and their sale price and other sellers might establish their price based on that, I don't know. But, I can tell you that if there is such a program it is only as good as the information entered in the data base. Old computer acronym from the early '60's says this- GIGO, Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Don't worry, your Abbin book will not boost your 401K.
 
pineapple said:
I have the second edition third printing, think I paid 12 bucks or something for it. Is Joe Abbin still around? total nonsense...
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I got an email from Joe last week, so I think he's still around. He's been threatening to get out of the blower business for several years, so I don't know if he's still selling kits or not...
 
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