Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Buying from Jim is an excellent suggestion. I'll contact him. Thanks Vick Photovilla@aol.com wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:40:49 -0400 > > From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] James Lager books - where can you buy them? > > Message-ID: <200010150046.UAA04101@sushi.toad.net> > > References: > > > Does anyone know where you can buy the latest set of James Lager's books? > > > > > > I saw them in a camera store in Germany, and then tried to look for > > > them through Amazon - to discover that they are out of print. > > > > > > Were the books only available for a short time? > > > > > > ...Vick > > > > > They are low volume as far as print run but you should be able to get them > > at http://www.tamarkin.com > > Steve > > Annapolis > > http://www.streetphoto.net>> > > Let me chime in here for a moment and suggest you buy them from Jim direct. > > There are two advantages to this: > > 1. You get to talk with Jim Lager...who is a great guy and will talk Leica > for as long as you can on most days. > > 2. You give the money for your copy directly to Jim and thus, I assume, he > makes more money from the sales rather than giving a cut to the re-sellers (I > assume)... Not a bad way to support the writing career of a nice guy who has > devoted his life to documenting Leica cameras and has been previously _fired_ > by at one of the prior mentioned dealers... > > Jim's last number listed in the LHSA guide for accepting orders for his books > is: > > 201-768-5426 > > ...and by the way, he will sign and personalize your copies if you ask him > to... > > I don't sell these books because when people ask I always just tell them to > buy them directly from Jim. It just seems right to me. > > That is my two copecks today. > > cheers, > Rich