Help requested, possibly from UK members?

[Andy]

Hello all, and thanks for reading.

I'm a collector as much as a reader, so I want all my books within a set to match. I'm currently trying to complete a set of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple books as shown here. I'm not getting much help from booksellers, and I already have some duplicates of editions that I don't want.

I'm currently missing:
The Murder at the Vicarage
The Thirteen Problems
The Moving Finger
Miss Marple's Final Cases

Hopefully, if you have or see one of these books, we can work out a price to please both of us.

Any and all help would be appreciated.
Andy

[Jill H.]

Andy.....I hate to state the obvious, but have you tried Ebay? I found some excellent books there that I could not find elsewhere.

[Andy]

Jill wrote: "Andy.....I hate to state the obvious, but have you tried Ebay? I found some excellent books there that I could not find elsewhere."

Amazon, Abebooks, Alibris, Biblio, paperbackswap... yup.
eBay? uh... no. (blush) (at least not that I remember... for sure...)

Definitely worth a shot. Thanks!

[Jill H.]

I hope you find what you need to complete your collection. Ebay sometimes surprises me with the variety of hard to find books that pop up there. Good luck.

[Esther]

Better World Books is also a good place to look.

[Cathryn]

bookfinder.com?

[Andy]

Jill wrote: "I hope you find what you need to complete your collection. Ebay sometimes surprises me with the variety of hard to find books that pop up there. Good luck."

Thanks for your suggestion, Jill! :-)
I found two of them at ebay.co.uk... well MAYbe three, but shipping from Australia is kinda ridiculous. One was Buy-It-Now, and the other closes on the 12th... Keeping my fingers crossed!

[Andy]

Esther wrote: "Better World Books is also a good place to look."

Cathryn wrote: "bookfinder.com?"

Thanks for your input ladies, but...
Better World Books is also an Amazon partner, so I got the same info there as going to their own site.

From what I saw at bookfinder... Let me let THEM tell it: "BookFinder.com is an independent subsidiary of AbeBooks, which is based in Victoria, Canada." Basically it's a meta search engine that just searches all the places I'd already searched and a couple smaller ones that I'd never heard of. I found a couple possibilities, but there was no provision to contact a seller for details about the book. Since we're talking about alternate editions here, that's a must. (shrugs)

[Jill H.]

Great, Andy!!!!

[Andy]

Jill wrote: "Andy.....I hate to state the obvious, but have you tried Ebay? I found some excellent books there that I could not find elsewhere."

Thanks to Jill's suggestion, I'm down to two books. One was exactly what I wanted, and the other is close enough to satisfy me. (instead of the cover being a matte finish with "marple" embossed in the upper right hand corner, it's a gloss finish. I might be crazy, but I'm not THAT crazy!) ;-)

I'm currently missing:
The Murder at the Vicarage
The Thirteen Problems

Hopefully, if you have or see one of these books, we can work out a price to please both of us.

Any and all help would be appreciated.
Andy

[Jill H.]

Will keep my eyes peeled, Andy. Glad you found a few of them......the others will show up eventually.

[Andy]

yeah, and then I can start on the other ones... So far, I have 9 of 47 Nero Wolfe books, and 2 of someplace around 80 Agatha Christie books. Yeah, I DO have a weakness for series... or serieses... or seriei... or is that a sickness?

On the plus side, I'm pretty sure that the New Edition series covered most of the Agatha Christie. Gonna be a lot of alternate editions, though. :-|

[Jill H.]

I have all the Nero Wolfe books and the videos from the 2 seasons on A&E television. Wolfe is my favorite American detective and Maury Chaykin, the late Canadian actor, was so perfect for the part!!!

[Laura]

Hmm, maybe try www.thebookpeople.co.uk?

[Andy]

Laura wrote: "Hmm, maybe try www.thebookpeople.co.uk?"

Thanks for the suggestion, Laura. All I found there were the "newer" 2007 editions. The funny thing is that they were the first two I got, and back then, they were the ones I was trying to get. (shrugs)

[Laura]

Oh ok, sorry! Hope you find what you're looking for soon

[Katherine]

Try kennys.ie. the used to have one of the best bookshops in Ireland but closed it to concentrate on their online business. They can get pretty much anything. Katherine