john6553 wrote:Hi Shag,
Why is this book so hard to come by and what type of info is in it? If you do pick up two books one to use and a back up and you're willing to sell your old beat up book I may be interested. If I find something I'll let you know.
John
It's not that it is hard to come by, as you saw by your Alibris post; however, t is hard to come by either:
at a reasonable price - some idiots seem to think it is the Magna Carta or The Constitution. One store in FL has it listed for $300, and have been trying to flog it since 01/2009. But he seems to prefer having his shelves full of dead stock and tying up capital rather than selling things at a reasonable price.
or
in decent condition - so many of them have the front covers folded (NO idea why people would do that), or writing in them, or people's name written in them (why do people do that?) or highlights, notes, etc. inside of them.
and/or a combination of the two - someone will have one cheap but it looks like hell with all the folds and damage to the book.
It was published by two lawyers from Chicago in 1982 and was the first REAL switchblade reference book. There was other switchblade book published in 1981 but was a much smaller B&W manual. The Intro to Switchblades was professionally laid out and had a lot of colour pictures as well.
I'll see what I come across and what I decide to do with my old one, I may get a book binder to re-set all the pages into new glue; since other than that, my original one looks close to new. Even my copies that I use as working books look close to new - I don't mistreat my books. I will however keep you in mind should I decide to let it go and replace it with another copy.
