abebooks.com is another spot to search of used books.  Basically, any rare 
book that I have had on my wish list, I've found there!  Including bird 
books.  It links book sellers across the country, as well as at least some 
in the U.K., Australia, and Germany.

Kurt Schwarz
Ellicott City
goawaybird at verizon dot net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Davis" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Recent Gull Guides - used book market


> MD Osprey:
>
> The used book market is very mature and is highly automated. I buy lots of 
> used birding field guides, references, European/Asian releases, etc. on 
> the used book market.
>
> I basically just use http://www.bookfinder.com/ as my search engine. It 
> has a robust, easy-to-use search engine and crawls the web to locate all 
> on-line sources for any given book.
>
> For example, there are lots of copies of the Larsson and Olsen gull book 
> available there.
>
> Hope this helps ...
>
> Phil
>
>
> At 09:07 AM 12/12/2009, Fred Shaffer wrote:
> (snip)
>>Unfortunately, the Larsson and Olsen book is currently out of print (even 
>>from the publisher), so unless you can find it somewhere online, you 
>>probably can't get it anymore.
>
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