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Edward woodwood

Member

• Nov 10, 2004

• #1

Watcha BFers

as a bookaholic who loves a bargain (I always end up using a book somewhere along the line - and exotic field guides are an excuse for travel!) I'd like to try and start a thread for members to alert the rest of us to any good book deals going on.....such as the recent half price deals on Guardian Spirit of the East Bank and lots of the Helm series such as Thrushes, Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse etc....

So, if you see anything (and remember) let us all know on here - after you've secured your own copy of course!

Happy reading and good birding
Tim

 

Karl J

Well-known member

• Nov 10, 2004

• #2

Several reduced up at cley the other day ... can't remember the titles though

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Nov 10, 2004

• #3

Cheers Karl
might get up there Sat

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Nov 10, 2004

• #4

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Birds of Africa
Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan
great book almost a tenner off at £21.99

Collins Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Central America
Ber Van Perlo. An excellent guide to a the whole region and down to £14 from £20

both from NHBS
www.nhbs.com

 

Andrew

wibble wibble

• Nov 10, 2004

• #5

Hi Tim,

Give us more info on the half price Helm books and the Richardson book too.

 

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black52bird

Registered User

• Nov 10, 2004

• #6

Cheap Helm Books

There's already been a long thread on this earlier.
I bought a stack from:
G David
16 St Edward's Passage
Cambridge CB2 3PJ
Tel: 01223-354619
Fax: 01223-324663
I live in Budapest and they arrived beautifully packed in under a week.
When I was in Charing Cross Road 2 weeks ago I saw more in
Henry Pordes Books Ltd
58-60 Charing Cross Rd
London WC2H 0BB
Tel: 020-7836-9031
Fax: 020-7240-4232
website: www.henrypordesbooks.com
e-mail: [email protected]

Hope that helps...and Good Shopping!! The Helm and Pica books are really great, and the reductions are in the order of £35 to £12.50!!

Best

David

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Nov 10, 2004

• #7

Slightly diverting this thread, but still about books - I have a question about the rather expensive gulls book? Did the first edition that was recalled have a lot of errors? What I'm thinking is there must be a lot of the the duff books floating about (think you only had to return the corner of the sleeve to get a new copy) and must be some going very cheap? Is this being an original scrooge? Or perhaps not a bad idea?

 

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Edward woodwood

Member

• Nov 10, 2004

• #8

Andrew - the books were from www.wildsounds.com Good deals and the proprietor Duncan McDonald is a good bloke who gives a heck of a lot of his profits to OBC, NBC, ABC and bird conservation in general

Jos, seeing as the reprint is apparently only marginally better I'd certainly have a cheapy original off someone...

 

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Darrell Clegg

Well-known member

• Nov 10, 2004

• #9

Not really advancing birding knowledge much but for those who like a good yarn www.thebookpeople.co.uk are selling the hardback version of The Big Year by Mark Obmascik at £4.99

Darrell

 

Andrew

wibble wibble

• Nov 10, 2004

• #10

Cheers Tom. Will bookmark that.

 

Stephen Dunstan

Registered User

• Nov 10, 2004

• #11

Several years ago Handbook of Bird IDs (Harris, Vinicombe, Tucker) were remaindered in Blackpool for a couple of quid. I picked up a spare copy, and considered picking up several more to sell at cost to local bird club members.

Wish I had, they are now quite valuable. I did sell one of my two to a deserving recipient on Bird Forum, but only asked purchase price (am I mad?).

Stephen.

 

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Rhion

Well-known member

• Nov 11, 2004

• #12

Tim Allwood said:

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Birds of Africa
Ian Sinclair and Peter Ryan
great book almost a tenner off at £21.99
www.nhbs.com

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Birds of Africa is available from Amazon at £20.99, with free postage since it's over £19. I got my copy within 2-3 days, but when I ordered another for a friend they reported that the waiting time was now 4-5 weeks.

 

Richard D

what was that...

Supporter

• Nov 11, 2004

• #13

Tim Allwood said:

Watcha BFers

...So, if you see anything (and remember) let us all know on here - after you've secured your own copy of course!

Happy reading and good birding
Tim

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I picked up a copy of David Rosair & David Cottridge's Photographic Guide to Waders of The World in my local remainder bookshop for £9.99 at the weekend. It's probably available in others, but I can grab a copy if anyone wants one.

 

Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Nov 11, 2004

• #14

This site is worth keeping an eye on. Some top bargains, including cheap BWP volumes.

http://www.psbooks.co.uk/NaturalHistory_Fts.asp

 

Tero

Retired

• Nov 11, 2004

• #15

The old version of National Geographic field guide, N America, is still going for half price at Borders and maybe Barned and Noble stores in the sale book section.

There is also a Smithsonian HUGE field guide going for $20. The east version is more portable.

 

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Bubbs

Well-known member

• Nov 11, 2004

• #16

Andrew Whitehouse said:

This site is worth keeping an eye on. Some top bargains, including cheap BWP volumes.

http://www.psbooks.co.uk/NaturalHistory_Fts.asp

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3 Volumes of BWP at £19.99 (give-away)...and to think that I paid full price for the full set..years ago.

Me thinks I'll wait for HBW when that starts to sell for £20/£30 per volume!..and I'm assured it will!

JB.

 

DKR

Northern Refugee

• Nov 11, 2004

• #17

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john barclay said:

3 Volumes of BWP at £19.99 (give-away)...and to think that I paid full price for the full set..years ago.

Me thinks I'll wait for HBW when that starts to sell for £20/£30 per volume!..and I'm assured it will!

JB.

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I can only see two volumes of BWP (VIII and IX) and they are both £14.99. Am I missing something? :h?:

 

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Bubbs

Well-known member

• Nov 11, 2004

• #18

DKR said:

I can only see two volumes of BWP (VIII and IX) and they are both £14.99. Am I missing something? :h?:

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Earlier today there were 3 volumes of BWP at £19.99 each. Perhaps one has been sold...still giving them away though...buy em!

John B

 

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BarbaraM

Well-known member

• Nov 11, 2004

• #19

Did everybody see this post that was on a different thread. Hopefully they can take payments from out of US (the pound should give great value against the dollar right now!):

Rare Bird Book and Natural History *Half Price Sale*
The Natural Resources Foundation, a Wisconsin based non-profit organization, is proud to extend the sale of Ron Johnson’s (former curator at the Miami Meterozoo) exclusive and rare Natural History and Bird Book Collection. Currently, all titles are 50% off (listed price includes 50% discount) starting November 15th and running until December 30th, 2004. Additional savings for orders over $100

This amazing collection includes an extensive group of books on aviculture as well as field guides, monographs, waterfowl, natural history and game birds. Ron has graciously donated his entire library (over 650 books) to NRF with the intention that all the proceeds will be used to fund conservation projects throughout Wisconsin.

To view the list of books and to place your orders please visit http://www.nrfwis.org/birdbooks/index.htm For further information email [email protected] (place bird book in the subject line) or call toll free 866-264-4096

 

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ground-roller

Well-known member

• Nov 11, 2004

• #20

Tim Allwood said:

lots of the Helm series such as Thrushes, Pheasants, Partridges and Grouse etc....

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Has the taxonomic order been changed again??