Vespasian

Maybe its just because GBP85 sounds so little nowdays when you live on Euro ;-)

Que??

Not sure what your point is. the fact is that the publication of the book was planned and subsequently printed well before the weakening of the pound sterling. It was set at 85 pounds sterling which by any standards is not an insignificant amount for a book whichever way you look at it.

V

James,

maybe not... EUR95 seems to be an across the board price for a good militaria book. Most of the German ones are more in fact....

EUR95 was GBP60... now GBP85... In 2 months this book could cost GBP95, without the actual price of the book changing at all....

I think you are suffering from the Peso-ization of the pound... perception is products from overseas become more expensive... but actually it has more to do with the pound being worth less.

Chris

Actually I disagree. If you look at the inside back cover of the dustwrapper the price stated is 85 pounds sterling and has nothing to do with the exchange rate!

Vespasian

Thanks, but having been cought out before I would still prefer to see some pictures for myself first.

If you do not have any, is there any link to the publishers or a USI website which has some images for view?

Cheers,

James

James

Don't know if you bought the book after all but like you I have a view on the quality of binding etc.. I obtained a copy when I was in India recently at 6000 rupees which given the exchange rate is around ?85. The book is excellent and the binding etc.. above the Indian average. However I have 4 pages which were overprinted rendering them unreadable. I have asked for replacement pages which I will have to paste in; surely something one should not have to do given the price. I think it is a fairly unique book and hence sort of worth the price. I do think think though it is overpriced. This print run is only 500 copies so being optimistic it could become a collectors item!!

Best Regards

Vespasian