Books cheapskates can afford (was Books lunatics hate)

[Rusty B]

Bargin (cheapskate) prices for space books recently mentioned on
Sci.Space.*:

I admit, I'm a cheapskate and I have purchased most of these books at
these
prices (or less). ;-)

(Survey of prices taken July 15, 2003.)

-"Space Shuttle..first 100 Missions by Jenkins -Amazon used $ 19.98
-Half.com $ 21.75 hardcover (1996)

-"Project Orion" by Dyson -Half.com $ 9.95 hardcover, -Amazon used $
15.00

-"The Demon Haunted World" by Sagan -Amazon used $ 5.50

-"UFOs and Space Mysteries" by Oberg -Amazon used $ 10.00

-"A Man on the Moon" by Andy Chaikin; -Amazon used - $ 1.05 and up.
-Half.com $ .75 paperback.

-"Apollo: Race to the Moon" Murray & Cox; -Amazon used - $ 72.95 and
up. -Half.com $ 45.67 hardcover.

-"Carrying the Fire" by Mike Collins; -Amazon used - $ 3.76 and up
-Half.com $ 3.75 paperback, $ 5.87 hardcover.

-"First on the Moon" by Armstrong, Collins & Aldrin; -Amazon - $ 5.99
and up. -Half.com $ 2.09 hardcover.

-"Full Moon" by Michael Light; -Amazon used $ 8.00 and up. -Half.com $
5.25 hardcover.

-"Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon" by David Reynolds; -Amazon - $
17.99 and up. -Half.com $ 14.50 hardcover.

-"The Home Planet" by Kelley / ASE; -Amazon used - $ 3.32 and up.
-Half.com $ 3.00 hardcover (1988), $ 3.75 paperback (1991)

-"Entering Space" by Joe Allen; -Amazon used $ 1.99 and up. -Half.com
$ 1.95 hardcover, $ 1.69 paperback.



NASA Mission Reports (Apogee Books):

(Amazon.com used unless otherwise noted)

-X-15 - $ 7.95 Amazon & Half.com

-Mars - $ 5.99

-Freedom 7 - $ 8.68
-Friendship 7 - $ 3.60 Amazon & Half.com
-Sigma 7 - $ 15.37 (only available new)

-Gemini 6 - $ 5.50 Amazon & Half.com
-Gemini 7 - $ 10.05 Amazon & Half.com

-Apollo 7 - $ 1.50 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 8 - $ 6.44 (Half.com $ 2.25)
-Apollo 9 - $ 3.75 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 10 - $ 2.40 - (At Half.com)
-Apollo 11 - Volume 1 - $ 3.50 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 11 - Volume 2 - $ 2.35 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 11 - Volume 3 - $ 14.00
-Apollo 12 - $ 1.69 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 13 - $ 10.29 (Half.com $ 10.99)
-Apollo 14 - $ 1.65 Amazon & Half.com
-Apollo 15 - $ 6.59
-Apollo 16 - $ 9.95
-Apollo 17 - $ 12.95

-Virtual Apollo - $ 12.56 Buy.com (Amazon $ 13.97)

-Space Shuttle STS 1-5 - $ 13.95

-Rocket & Space Corp Energia - $ 9.99


For used books, Amazon does not combine shipping. It's about $ 3.75
shipping per book (Media Mail).


The books are available at these URLs (as of July 15, 2003):

www.amazon.com

www.half.com

www.buy.com



--
Rusty Barton - Antelope, California

[OM]

On 15 Jul 2003 11:49:14 -0700, (Rusty B) wrote:

>Bargin (cheapskate) prices for space books recently mentioned on
>Sci.Space.*:

....Beady, watch out! Rusty now thinks he's competition for Mrs. Beady!


OM

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[Rusty B]

MORE CHEAPSKATE BARGAINS - ASTRONAUT BOOKS
Available at www.amazon.com unless otherwise noted.
(Survey taken 16 July, 2003)


Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz", & Malcolm McConnell
"Men from Earth"
New York: Bantam Books, 1989
-Amazon used $ 0.99 hardcover

Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz", & Wayne Warga
"Return to Earth"
New York: Random House, 1973
-Amazon used $ 0.75 hardcover

Aldrin, Edwin E. "Buzz"
"Encounter With Tiber"
New York; Warner Books Inc., 1996
-Amazon used $ 2.20

Allen, Joseph P., & Russell Martin.
"Entering Space: An Astronaut's Odyssey"
1984
-Amazon used $ 1.99

Armstrong, Neil, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr, Gene Farmer &
Dora Jane Hamblin.
"First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and
Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr."
Boston: Little, Brown, 1970
-Amazon used $ 5.99 hardcover

Association of Space Explorers, edited by Edward Gibson, foreword by
James A. Michener
"The Greatest Adventure"
Chico, CA; Mach 1 Publishers, 1994
-Amazon used $ 4.28 hardcover

Association of Space Explorers, edited by Kevin W. Kelley, foreword by
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"The Home Planet"
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1988
-Amazon used $ 11.24 hardcover, $ 3.18 paperback

By the Astronauts as told to Dick Lattimer. Foreword by James A.
Michener
"All We Did Was Fly To The Moon"
Alachua, FL: Whispering Eagle Press, 1983
-Amazon used $ 3.00 paperback

Bean, Alan & Beverly Fraknoi
"My Life As An Astronaut"
Minstrel Books (Pocket Books), 1988
-Amazon used $ 11.63 library binding, $ 0.88 paperback

Borman, Frank, & Robert J. Serling
"Countdown : An Autobiography"
New York: William Morrow, Silver Arrow Books, 1988
-Amazon used $ 3.05

Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, Slayton
"We Seven" 1962
-Amazon used $ 1.00

Carpenter, Scott
"Deep Flight" 1994
-Amazon used $ 0.01 paperback

Carpenter, Scott
"The Steel Albatross"
New York: Pocket Books, 1991
-Amazon used $ 0.70 hardcover, $ 0.01 paperback

Collins, Michael
"Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey's"
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974
-Amazon used $ 4.99 hardcover

Collins, Michael
"Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places"
1976
-Amazon used $ 2.45 paperback

Collins, Michael
"Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space"
New York: Grove Press, 1988
-Amazon used $ 2.00 hardcover

Collins, Michael
"Mission to Mars" 1990
-Amazon used $ 0.80 hardcover

Cunningham, Walter, & Mickey Herskovitz
"The All-American Boys"
New York: Macmillan Co., 1977
-Amazon used $ 12.97 hardcover

Duke, Charlie & Dotty
"Moonwalker"
Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1990
-Amazon used $ 22.70

Grissom, Betty, & Henry Still
"Starfall"
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974
-Amazon used $ 87.00 hardcover

Grissom, Virgil "Gus", & Jacob Hay
"Gemini!"
The Macmillan Co. - Collier-Macmillan, 1968
-Amazon used $ 45.68 hardcover

Irwin, James B. & William A. Emerson, Jr.
"To Rule the Night: The Discovery Voyage of Astronaut Jim Irwin"
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1973; Boston: G.K. Hall, 1974
-Amazon used $ 6.00 hardcover, $ 0.99 paperback

Lind, Kathleen
"Don Lind: Mormon Astronaut" 1985
-Amazon used $ 5.81 hardcover

Lovell, Jim & Jeffrey Kluger
"Lost Moon: The Perilous Journey of Apollo 13" [The paperback is
titled "Apollo 13"]
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994
-Amazon used $ 1.86 hardcover, $ 0.01 paperback

Mullane, R. Mike
"Lift Off!: An Astronaut's Dream" 1994
-Amazon used $ 10.00 hardcover, $ 3.25 paperback

Mullane, R. Mike
"Do Your Ears Pop In Space?" 1997
-Amazon used $ 2.49

Nelson, Bill
"Mission : An American Congressman's Voyage to Space" 1988
-Amazon used $ 5.40 hardcover

Oberg, James E.
"Red Star in Orbit" 1981
-Amazon used $ 10.18 hardcover

Oberg, James E.
"Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside The U.S.-Russian Space Alliance" 2001
-Amazon used $ 10.81 hardcover

Oberg, James E.
"Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost" 1988
-Amazon used $ 4.45 hardcover

Pogue, William R.
"How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space?" 1985
-Amazon used $ 1.80 paperback

Ride, Sally & Tam O' Shaughnessy
"The Third Planet, Exploring The Earth From Space"
New York, Crown Publishing Inc., 1994
-Amazon used $ 5.00 hardcover

Ride, Sally & Susan Okie
"To Space and Back" 1989
-Amazon used $ 2.42 school & library binding, $ 1.47 paperback

Ride, Sally
"Voyager" 1992
-Amazon used $ 5.19 hardcover

Schirra, Walter M., Jr. & Richard N. Billings
"Schirra's Space"
Boston: Quinlan Press, 1988
-Amazon used $ 18.90 hardcover

Shepard, Alan, Deke Slayton, Jay Barbee & Howard Benedict
"Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon"
Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing Inc., 1994
-Amazon used $ 1.74 hardcover

Slayton, Deke & Michael Cassutt
"Deke! US Manned Space From Mercury to the Shuttle"
New York, Tom Doherty Associates Inc. (Forge), 1994
-Amazon used $ 2.19 hardcover

Worden, Alfred M.
"A Flight to the Moon" 1974
-Amazon used $ 5.29 hardcover

Worden, Alfred M.
"Hello Earth: Greetings from Endeavour"
Los Angeles, CA: Nash Publishing Corp., 1974
-Amazon used $ 39.98 hardcover






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[Scott Hedrick]

"Rusty B" > wrote in message
om...
> For used books, Amazon does not combine shipping. It's about $ 3.75
> shipping per book (Media Mail).

What cheapskates! Do used books weigh more than new?
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[Andre Lieven]

"Scott Hedrick" ) writes:
> "Rusty B" > wrote in message
> om...
>> For used books, Amazon does not combine shipping. It's about $ 3.75
>> shipping per book (Media Mail).
>
> What cheapskates! Do used books weigh more than new?

My understanding ( I have bought a used book via amazon.com ) is
that the books aren't Amazon's, they are sold via their site, from
other sellers. So, Amazon can't offer free shipping on those,
as they're not the ones paying for the shipping.

And, individual sellers on amazon likely can't get mass use
discount rates due to their sales and shipping volumes being
orders of magnitude lower then amazon's.

Andre

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