[Leica] Book Price! Like WOW! :-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Howdy,
So I was sitting here quietly looking for copies of my previous books now 
out of print, cowboys, politicians and other things when I came across one 
for sale... "This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler." It was the 
first of the medical series.

Gorgeous book, big coffee table size 14 1/2" X 14 1/2"  trust me you need a 
big coffee table and or a big lap to open it on while looking through it. 
;-) Special editions were also produced as collector books, only 250 copies 
hand bound leather cover! Awesome feel and look...... $250.00 US! Each copy 
was author signed and numbered, and as I recall at the time from the 
publisher most of these went to the USA.

So when I came across what I believe must be a leather bound copy the price 
was rather startling!........  $410. 00 US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like holy smokes at that price per copy I could almost live like a king. ;-) 
That is if the publisher hadn't screwed me out of my royalties leaving me 
with 10 years of work and not a dime! :-( Nor any leather bound copies.

However, I did manage to purchase, yep even though I was owed a pile of 
money from previously collected royalties, if I wanted any of the copies 
left I had to buy them from the receiver. So I did, which I gradually sold 
and made up for a little of the major photo & travel production costs over 
the 10 years.

So to come across a copy for sale at $410.00 US truly was a startling find. 
Now if only I had 100 copies of leather bound? Like, "WOW!!!"  ;-)  It's 
party time! :-) :-)

I always consider this book the epitome of fine reproduction in illustrating 
the qualities of using Leica cameras and glass.
ted