Speaking of hard to find items (this seems to be a recurring
theme of late), I was recently scouring the Galactic Central
website's Magazine section (http://www.philsp.com/magazines.html)
for the citation information for an article in THE ARMCHAIR
DETECTIVE, and managed to glean the info I needed by reading
the article titles on the cover scans.
In the process of doing so, I found (I'm sure to no
Rara-Avian's surprise) many other article titles listed on
various covers that piqued my interest. My question is this:
is there any online source for electronic journals that might
carry digital versions of back issues of THE ARMCHAIR
DETECTIVE? Since I taught there last year, I have had access
to the supply of e-journals provided by my local university,
but they do not carry this particular publication.
I've seen a few issues for sale on Amazon but they do not
come cheap. The Winter issue for 1981 (Vol. 14, No. 1) with
Hammett in partial silhouette on the cover was going for over
$300! There is also (or perhaps by now was) a meager
selection on E Bay for about $10 or $12 each, one of which
I've already bought.
Thanks in advance! Harry
Quoting m23to53 <
library.john@virgin.net>:
>
>>
>> This one is in the public domain. There will
probably be a movie
> tie-in
>> when/if the movie comes out.
>>
>> Jeff
>>
> Probably just as rare as the original pb edition is
the UK Robert
> hale edition of 1984, retitled 'One for the
Money'.
> Robert Hale are what we call a library publisher and
most of their
> titles thus are bought by libraries, so few copies
of their titles
> seem to be bought by readers. I have yet to see a
copy of 'One for
> the money' on the likes of ABE (though I may have
missed them though
> my random checking). They actually reprinted most
Chaze titles in the
> 1980s, all of which are probably as hard to come
by.
> Most of Hale's fiction output has been mediocre
fiction aimed at
> libraries who buy in quantity rather than by author.
But there have
> been a few decent items like early Estelmans and
Pronzinis.
>
> regards
> John
>
>
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