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Stahman Shawls and Seamen's Scarves

For those of you who want but have not yet obtained a copy of Myrna Stahman's peerless tome on method construction of Faeroese shawls with matching "seamen's scarves" you might want to get while the getting is good.

My copy (ex libris and decidedly on its last legs) literally disintegrated on me earlier this week. I'll have it rebound but I want a good clean unbroken copy so I went looking for a used copy and discovered that USED are selling for anything from $40 up to as much as $130. I used

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- my usual used book locator;
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and a couple of other used book search engines and could not find a single copy for less than regular retail.

Neither of my LYS had a copy used or new.

A quick search of my usual suspect internet suppliers turned up goose eggs until I called

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I ordered two copies (one is a gift, one for me!) and I have no idea how many more may be on the shelf.

So get yours while you can, it would seem that Stahman is joining Starmore as a collector's item.

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Reply to
Wooly
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Thanks for the headsup, Wooly! I WANT this book, badly, will have to break open the piggy bank, LOL! Noreen

Reply to
YarnWright

Noreen, I looked quickly at Amazon.ca and found that they had a copy for $131Can. While the Schoolhouse press copy was $30 US. Not bad at all. go for it girl.

Els

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Els van Dam

On Sun, 07 May 2006 06:55:19 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@telus.net (Els van Dam) spewed forth :

Yep, $30US is the MSRP. Maybe there was some trendy Faeroese shawl thing on that fluffy DIY knitting program that's suddenly driven this book's used pricing into the stratosphere?

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Wooly

wooly the book I saw at Amazon.ca was second hand, and that means that they can ask "the sky is the limit price" It does not mean they will get it though. School house is selling sock they still had, or remnants etc. They stay with what is reasonable. That makes total sense to me. They want you to come back, as you are doing, because they are reliable. I love bookstores like that. We have a good one here in the valley as well.

Els

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Els van Dam

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