Baxenden Bank
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I have a first edition. Calm down, it's not for sale, unless someone offered a really daft amount of money. I bought it a while back second hand.Yeah, same here. It'd be sad to see it end, though I have to admit I haven't brought one, or rather been brought one, since I was a kid. I've long fancied getting the first edition second hand if at a good price. I wonder whether a 'remastered' version of the first edition might be a good/better seller than a new edition (though it sounds like there areenough corrections to be made from the 15th edition)? Mr Baker wouldn't necessarily need to do it himself.
However, I did recently see one on Ebay, listed and sold for a reasonable price (under £10 I think, plus P+P). Description was good or very good and the buyer was happy. So it is worth keeping an eye out. At the same time one was listed on Abebooks (part of Amazon now) for a much larger amount. I was tempted to take a punt and buy the Ebay one to sell on at a profit but worried that the Ebay one may turn out to be poor quality or marked.
UPDATE There is one listed as I type. £16.30 plus postage from the USA at £31.65. Or one from the UK at £700 which is simply ridiculous. The one I saw was around the £60 mark.
Ian Allan did a reproduction of a 1970 rail atlas in 2003, priced at £14.99 which might be available somewhere. ISBN 0711029652
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