I need to find four very rare books by Mel Belanger:
“Retrospect and Prospect”
“Letters to Billy-O”
“Ah, Sweet Mystery”
“The Man Who Invented Christianity”
These are small, slim books-non fiction, and they mean a lot to me.
I’ve no idea what you’re willing to pay but Ah, Sweet Mystery is available through Amazon’s used book sellers.
Thank you.
One down, three to go.
WordMan told me about this site: Bookfinder. Today the site finds only the title mentioned by Jophiel, but in my experience the results change frequently, so it might be worth checking on a regular basis.
It looks like I’ll be getting “Letters to Billy-O” through the inter-library loan system, which really surprised me. As far as I know, there are only 17 copies of that book in existence.
Mel Belanger seems to be a pretty obscure guy. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Maybe you could write one for him.
The consortium to which my library belongs has no books by Mel Belanger.
ALibris is usually my go-to site for books, but no dice.
I wonder if you got an account at LibraryThing.com if the community there could help with your search?
There is a person (or library?) that has all of this author’s books listed in their “collection.”
This compilation looks related:
http://www.dragonsheadbooks.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=22747&CLSN
I’ll check, but you might have found something the family never knew existed.
Abebooks.com only turned up the first one already found.
That would be awesome, good luck!
(Go Librarian Power!)