Thanks all for your support and to Jim for offering his copy. A few others of you have contacted me personally as well, so things aren't as bleak as before.
As some of you confirmed, I did scour the earth via all the normal channels - it's indeed a rare book now. Even to the far reaches of the East, Mr Baumbach's book trades high: 書 留聲機 Columbia Phonograph Companion Volume II http://r.ebay.com/WmHmm7 Thanks again everyone, Arvin On 2/4/13 3:26 PM, "Arvin Casas" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello All, > >My recent attempt to purchase a copy of The Columbia Phonograph Companion >Volume II has ended in failure. I went to the effort of buying through >Amazon UK through a now-known-to-me shady seller. Thankfully I was able >to >get my cool hundred or so back! > >My adventures in the underworld over, I was wondering if any good folk out >there happen to have an extra copy of Mr Baumbach's out-of-print opus? >I've >tried scouring sources far and wide, from the office of the good author to >used book dealers to, as evidenced above, the darkened alleys of Amazon >marketplace UK, but apparently "out-of-print" means in my case, "removed >from the face of the earth." :O > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Not giving up yet! :) > >Arvin > > > > > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org

