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Laurence Batchelor
 Post subject: Burt Surfaces Again!
PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:18 am 
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For silly money! :cool_1:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :B:SS:UK:1
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Incredible. I'd sooner spend that kind of dough on Raven/Roberts volumes....!

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Buy it now for 300 pounds? That borders on madness :lol_4: . These books at time of printing were around $45 US. All I can say is that Royal Navy Battleships must be very popular subjects indeed!

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Going by the amounts Burt books recently fetched on ebay, this actually seems to be not too unreasonable - didn't that same volume get around GBP 240 lately?

If these were only reprinted! *sigh* They'd probably sell by the score.

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JWintjes wrote:
Going by the amounts Burt books recently fetched on ebay, this actually seems to be not too unreasonable - didn't that same volume get around GBP 240 lately?

If these were only reprinted! *sigh* They'd probably sell by the score.

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Oh Jorit how I've tried!

In 1993 when it first came it it was £40 new!!!! :mad_1:

I had to pay £80 for mine a few years back, bargain I suppose

Ray Burt if only you would get back into all your naval matters!


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RNfanDan wrote:
Incredible. I'd sooner spend that kind of dough on Raven/Roberts volumes....!


Raven/ Roberts has been reprinted in German, I paid about £40 for a copy. Even if you don't read German (and my German is very limited) I think it is worth it for the diagrams and photographs.

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Rob you can still get Raven & Roberts for £50 in english if you keep an eye out.

That's what I paid for mine about 4-5 years ago.
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G. Shoda
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Saw the book in a local library. Nice pictures, but not well written as I recall (from a literary standpoint).

I don't think there are many copies around, so the price (though steep) is not unexpected. If it had been mass marketed by Barnes & Nobles, the cost today might be $5. Hough's Dreadnought book is very well written and well illustrated and you can obtain a copy for very little (though more than $5).
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