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aitor iriarte · 10-07-2004, 05:50 AM

You only need to be extremely lucky or just to be moderately lucky and have no less than 500 bucks in your pocket... 
 
Aitor

hansvl · 10-07-2004, 06:07 AM

Well, I think I was very lucky. I only searched for two months. And I didn't have 500 bucks in my pockets . I just googled very frequently (at least five times a week) with very specific search parameters. I stumbled upon an American armour vendor who sold of his double of the Robinson book. Just one hour after I contacted him, a Dutchman also wanted to buy it. 
 
Oh, It still makes me (as a Belgian) feel very pleased to have beaten a Dutchman to it . 
 
Hans

10-07-2004, 12:05 PM

Go to Abebooks: 
 
dogbert.abebooks.com/serv...field.y=10 
 
That's how I found mine. I obtained a decent copy for a tad over $300 USD.

**richsc** · 10-07-2004, 12:16 PM

I have put in searches on Abebooks in their 'wants' list, which emails you when your book shows up on their listings. I don't know how fast the notice is relative to others, but it's up there. You have a better chance to get the book before it's snatched up by someone else. Legio XX 
Caput dolet, pedes fetent, Iesum non amo

10-07-2004, 07:55 PM

If I tried to spend 300 on a book my wife would KILL me.

Crispvs · 10-08-2004, 07:55 PM

As Robinson had at the time been out of print for over a decade and a half, ten years ago I borrowed one of only two copies owned by libraries in New Zealand on inter-library loan and photocopied the entire thing. The local library staff were even good enough to ignore the strict copyrite laws which they were usually at pains to point out to other people and spiral-bound it for me. It has travelled around the world with me and probably spends as much time off the bookshelf as on it. And it only cost me about NZ$14! Mind you, if I want a really good look at any of the photos I head down to the Birmingham Public library and look at the copy there, as the reproduction of photographs by photocopying is generally sadly wanting. Luckily for me the man at White Rose Armoury who hand made my helmet owns a copy and uses it as a pattern book. 
 
Crispvs

Uwe Bahr · 10-11-2004, 10:43 AM

I joined our public library and did the same as Crispus and I can add that more than 99 % of the pictures are in black and white. The photocopier I used made sufficient pictures, they were really quite good. It was a cheap solution. In the meantime most of the helmets and armour shown in the book have appeared in the Internet and/or this forum. So one could even print colour photos and glue them on the copies. 
 
My advice: put the copies into transparent covers and those into a ring binder. Since Robinson there have been found many knew helmets. I use my ring binder copy as some kind of standard work that I can extend with new finds or better photos. 
 
Uwe

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