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A Covenant With Death


Joan and Terry

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A copy of this book is for sale on ebay,very cheap

Joan

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Covenant-With-Death-...VQQcmdZViewItem

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A copy of this book is for sale on ebay,very cheap

Joan

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Covenant-With-Death-...VQQcmdZViewItem

Bless you Joan

Many thanks for your kindness in bringing this to the attention of us all.

I have been after this for a long time and have seen the high price being charged for the hardback copies.

Some fetching £30.00+

I thought that i had a copy set aside by a bookdealer in Ostend of all places but it had been sold.

Tjhanks to you I shall be reading this over Christmas.

Regards,

Bob

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Bless you Joan

Many thanks for your kindness in bringing this to the attention of us all.

I have been after this for a long time and have seen the high price being charged for the hardback copies.

Some fetching £30.00+

I thought that i had a copy set aside by a bookdealer in Ostend of all places but it had been sold.

Tjhanks to you I shall be reading this over Christmas.

Regards,

Bob

Bob,

You are welcome,I kept going to Ebay having a look and hoping someone from GWF would see it.We have a paperpack version that we have read a few times,once read,never forgotten.

Joan

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Fantastic, well done. i cant believe the prices of this book, i got one on abebooks for £4 and the next lowest price was £30! the hardback was well beyond that.

Mick

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Another copy of A Covenant with Death,very reasonable price at the moment

Joan

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1

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Another copy of A covenant With Death

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...A:IT&ih=021

Joan

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My paperback copy was either 20p or 30p at a car boot, and I have been amazed at the prices that this novel is fetching. One of my pals recently mentioned the book to me, not knowing that i had it, and after recommending it, told me that his wife had given his copy to a jumble for an animal charity without consulting him. He's not a happy chap.

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For what its worth, I cannot understand why copies of this outstanding book are so hard to find, although I know that they are. The initial print run was small I understand. However apart from a paperback edition it was also published by the Book of the Month Club. Most BMC books are now of relatively limited interest, and thus of no interest to dealers when they are offred to them. But the book does it does turn up in charity shops. Although I understand that Oxfam shops now send their best books to specialist Oxfam book shops, Covenant With Death seems to slip through the net. I have had some great buys from charity shops - even to the point of feeling guilty and feeling it necessary to add a little to the price.

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There's a hardback first edition in that auction site at the moment with an asking price of £79.95, and a search on some of the used book databases shows even more extreme prices.

However this weekend I actually picked up a first for £18 so there are still some reasonable second hand bookstores around.

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Joan,

Having read of this book on the forum I have been looking around for a copy for a while. I purchased a mint paperback copy (printed in 1994) for beer money on e-bay (Australian) a few nights ago.

I thought it worth mentioning for the benefit of UK members as a place to look for it due to the high exchange rate you would enjoy. I paid $4.50 Australian for it. That's about 1.80 pound sterling.

While looking for this book I also came across "Much sounding of Bugles" by John Harris which tells of the Seige of Chitral in 1895. There are several First World War links with this book. One individual mentioned who went on to greater (?) things in the Great War are Sir Ian Hamilton.

Regards,

Scott

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There is a sizable variation in the prices asked for the paperback versions on the abebooks link. 61p to 25 pounds.

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