[Healeys] O'Kane Book

Jack Feldman qualitas.jack at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 12:40:32 MDT 2009


It is even worse. alibris has copies in England that are listed at over
$300,000! Crazy. Who would pay that much for the book? It would be
interesting to find out how they arrive at those prices.

Jack

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Jody Kerr <jodyfkerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I think we created a run on the book at Amazon, and the only
> copies left are the ridiculously priced ones. :)
>
> Book information:
>
> Title: How to repair your Foreign Car: a guide for the beginner, your
> wife, and the mechanically inept
> Author: Dick O'Kane
> ISBN-10: 0385015283
> ISBN-13: 978-0385015288
> LC Cataloging #: 68-12158
> Publisher: Doubleday (January 1968)
>
> This sum of information should allow you to track down the book. The
> ISBN-10 is the old ISBN number (International Standard Book Number),
> the ISBN-13 is the modern ISBN Number. The LC Cataloging # is the
> Library of Congress cataloging code and is used universally in
> libraries within the United states.
>
> I could bore you all to tears with all sorts of additional
> information, but that's what you get when you ask a librarian (or at
> least someone who used to be one) for information about a book.
> Googling the ISBN # returns a pile of results:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4ACGW_enUS332US333&q=isbn+0385015283+
>
> Jody
>
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