# Help me, Used Book Store Denizens... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860 "2003-01-25T14:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860/1 "2003-01-25T14:52:45Z")
You’re my only hope! I’m looking for an out-of-print book: Willam Murphy, [Birder’s Guide to Trinidad and Tobago](http://www.inct.net/~billmurphy/book.htm), 1995. My friend and I are going to Trinidad on the 15th of February on a birding vacation. He says that this is the book to get but we can’t find it anywhere. [ul][li]I’ve googled and googled. Many links lead to Amazon, telling me that the book is out of print.[/li][li]Used book stores that list it tell me they no longer have it.[/li][li]Ebay: zilch.[/li][li]Local libraries: nada.[/ul][/li]What’s a Doper to do? _lightbulb goes on_ I’ll ask my fellow Dopers, a group most likely to haunt used book stores! So I send out my plea: If you happen to be in a used book store, near the nature section and spy this book, could you drop me a line, pretty please? My email is lreed at rci dot rutgers dot edu. I’ll bake you cookies (sans insects or with, if you like). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![TruePisces](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/truepisces/32/13628_2.png) [@TruePisces](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruePisces)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860/2 "2003-01-25T14:54:18Z")
I’m not sure when I’ll get to the UBS by me, but if I do, I’ll pick it up and let you know. If it turns out that someone gets it to you before I do, I’m sure I can always sell it back. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860/3 "2003-01-25T15:00:04Z")
Check this out, if you haven’t already: [http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y02Y4127589Y6543818/102-5429515-9204939](http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y02Y4127589Y6543818/102-5429515-9204939) ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860/4 "2003-01-25T15:24:37Z")
WOW, you guys are fast! Thanks very much for the offer, **TruePisces** , but the book that **Mjollnir** linked to is now gone (and soon to be in my hot little hands). So, **Mollnir** , what kind of cookies do you like? Chunky chocolate chip or scrumptious raisin-oatmeal? Sinful sugar or a meaty mealworm (🙂 it’s really more nutty tasting)? I’m serious about the cookies - email me. And thank you thank you thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860/5 "2003-01-25T15:25:02Z")
I found it on [Abebooks.com](http://Abebooks.com), for $15. Hopefully this link will take you straight to your book. [http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=183349286](http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=183349286) ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860/6 "2003-01-25T15:47:38Z")
**Lsura** , it was still available at the ABEBOOKS. Thanks very much for looking! I had checked there two days ago, and they didn’t have it. In fact, I had earlier checked out the Amazon used books too, and they were also out at the time. I guess this book moves quickly between hands. But now I have it, thanks to **Mjollnir** (spelled right this time, d’oh!). Perhaps a mod could close this thread so folks don’t search needlessly? And thanks again to you all! Dopers are the BEST! ---
**Author:** ![Lyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Lyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyra)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-used-book-store-denizens/150860/7 "2003-01-25T17:23:32Z")
For future reference, I found [this](http://www.alibris.com) website and have found it to be amazing. They have everything.