The current price is 100/150 USD. The book is quite scarce and hard to
find but 175.00 with reserve on ebay is too, too high.
A good source of interesting books and papers on mollusks with thousands
of titles:
http://www.abebooks.com/home/shellbook/
also use the search engine of used books:
http://used.addall.com/
With regards
Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli
>The listing on Ebay has a start bid at $175.00, with a reserve. What
>do copies of this book go for? I have a friend who is looking for a
>copy. I told him to expect to pay $200. This listing seems to
>indicate a higher sum of money, or is it a hopeful listing?
>
>I wish I bought that pile of 10 I saw 20 years ago in the discount
>section of my local book store*, for $27 each. I bought one copy,
>figuring every shell collector should have one, not knowing how
>scarce it would eventually become, or how "lost" I would be without
>it.
>
>*The bookstore has long since gone out of business. I did think
>about seeing if they had any left stored away when I realized it was
>harder to get.
>
>John Timmerman