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Thread ID: 75936 2007-01-15 06:53:00 Yet another forlorn hope - Books this time Morgenmuffel (187) PC World Chat
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516258 2007-01-16 20:43:00 There are 21 copies of books by Guareschi on abebooks that can be sourced from NZ booksellers, but as I noted earlier, no Omnibus editions. Books'n'Print in Invergiggle have got The little world of Don Camillo at $US14.32, and Don Camillo and the prodigal son at $US25.07. Who knows, if you approach them directly you might get them cheaper? John H (8)
516259 2007-01-16 23:14:00 but there is no record of the McQuarrie . Have you got the author's name correct?



Actually I think it may be spelled MacQuarrie




Note that the author's name is Giovanni, not the way you spelled it . The ChCh Library Catalogue is very literal, and it brings up no results using your spelling! I wonder if the abebooks site did the same thing to me . Will re-check .

Thanks for that
His actual name was the way I spelt it but apparently it was changed to Giovanni on the books so it wouldn't confuse english speakers, thanks for picking that up (and Laura), as i have probably sent a few people on wild goose chases 		Morgenmuffel (187)
516260 2007-01-16 23:30:00 Actually I think it may be spelled MacQuarrie

Indeed you are correct. There are a million books on abebooks by Hector MacQuarrie! (aren't computers and catalogues frustrating? whatever happened to fuzzy logic?).

There are 10 copies of Around the world in a baby Austin, one of which is at SeaBreeze Books in Palmerston North for $US35.81. The cheapest copy is $US35 at a Tassie bookshop, but the shipping costs from Palm Nth are probably cheaper than from Tas.

Looks like the library and interloan are the thing if your budget is $NZ5 per book!:groan: 		John H (8)
516261 2007-01-16 23:56:00 There are 10 copies of Around the world in a baby Austin, one of which is at SeaBreeze Books in Palmerston North for $US35.81. The cheapest copy is $US35 at a Tassie bookshop, but the shipping costs from Palm Nth are probably cheaper than from Tas.

Looks like the library and interloan are the thing if your budget is $NZ5 per book!:groan:
Wow, i was expecting all these old books to be a few dollars at the most, I'll have to have a good grumble at my parents about getting rid of my original ones 		Morgenmuffel (187)
516262 2007-01-17 00:53:00 I am a bit surprised myself, because I recall the Don Camillo books being cheap and nasty editions on that paper that doesn't last too well . However, I am remembering paperbacks I think, whereas the abebooks ones may be hardcover .

The prices must be a supply and demand thing - no doubt there are other Nigels around the world thinking "I would really love to read/own those books I remember so fondly from my childhood/adolescence" . . .

But I know what you mean about people getting rid of your things . . . Great grandfather leaking the family farm away down the drain at the local boozer is the worst, but I have yet to forgive my wife for putting my original swandri into a Playcentre fundraising sale without asking me first . . . :mad: 		John H (8)
516263 2007-01-30 08:11:00 Well an update, I just had the "The little world of Don Camillo" book arrive today and am enjoying being reacquainted with an old friend, thank all

if anyone spots any of the other books mentioned for around the $5 mark let me know

Thanks again 		Morgenmuffel (187)
516264 2007-01-30 08:23:00 Available on the web:

www.meaning-of-life.info

and .pdf here:

vajrang.tripod.com 		zqwerty (97)
516265 2007-01-31 00:43:00 Nigel, I also enjoyed the Don Camillo books by Giovanni Guareschi very much.

There were 5 or 6 altogether, I think, but the most famous was the first - The Little World of Don Camillo. It was filmed, though I don't know if it came to NZ.

Yes, the film did come to NZ and I remember as a boy going to see it with my grandparents at the State Theatre in New Plymouth. It would've been in the '50s and I would've been about 7 or 8 at the time. 		jcr1 (893)
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