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Any way to get specific edition/cover from Amazon.com used books?
jamesra
Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
Chicago, ILRegistered User regular
Lately I've been searching out some of my favorite books from my youth, and for a variety of reasons both sentimental and practical. Specifically, I loved a lot of Baen books before Baen started publishing things like Waffen SS fan fiction[1], but I loath the direction they have taken their cover art in the last 15+ years. Beyond that, some of my favorite cover artists, especially John Berkley have largely been supplanted and I think that is a shame.
So my question is pretty much in the thread title. Is there any easy way to do this? I assume that you can simply send a question to the sellers, although I'm not sure how to do this, but that strikes me as fairly challenging to do en mass. Is there any way to push a request through Amazon? Does any other on-line used book store provide this info?
Thanks.
[1]Yes, really. Thank you Tom Kratman and John Ringo. Frighteningly enough this is neither the stupidest nor the most horrifying thing Kratman has ever published though Baen. I'm pretty sure that would be his Eurabia terror novel[2] in which he advocates depopulating the middle east through genocide. Ringo isn't exactly a charmer either.
[2]Kratman understands neither history nor demographics and seems to have a delusion that political believes are heritable. Basically, he is a flaming racist among many, many other vices. If you're curious, fire something of in the books thread in D&D. I have much to say about this feel.
So my question is pretty much in the thread title. Is there any easy way to do this? I assume that you can simply send a question to the sellers, although I'm not sure how to do this, but that strikes me as fairly challenging to do en mass. Is there any way to push a request through Amazon? Does any other on-line used book store provide this info?
Thanks.
[1]Yes, really. Thank you Tom Kratman and John Ringo. Frighteningly enough this is neither the stupidest nor the most horrifying thing Kratman has ever published though Baen. I'm pretty sure that would be his Eurabia terror novel[2] in which he advocates depopulating the middle east through genocide. Ringo isn't exactly a charmer either.
[2]Kratman understands neither history nor demographics and seems to have a delusion that political believes are heritable. Basically, he is a flaming racist among many, many other vices. If you're curious, fire something of in the books thread in D&D. I have much to say about this feel.
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Frequently the sellers describe what they have or post pictures.
Though I mostly buy old math and science books, so your experience may vary.