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There is a copy of Robinson on Amazon UK now for £215.
The other day I noticed that a copy of my own 'Roman Army Wars of the Empire', was for sale from a bookshop in America at £380! I have looked today and it appears to have sold.
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Well done! I very much hope you get some royalties for that!
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Hi Paul
Sadly no!
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
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It's truly amazing what both a boon and a bane the Internet has been for used books. I used to have difficulty finding books by searching through printed catalogs and now it's relatively easy. Of course, sellers can now charge ridiculous prices because they notice one idiot charging an outrageous price and think that the book is truly worth that figure... Now on the positive side again, the book will probably eventually show up at a reasonable price if you keep looking.
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I know that his book "the armour of imperial rome" is near impossible to get unless you are rich, but is his book "the armour of the Roman legions" a good book. I've found it at affordable prices. Anyone know of it?
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Yes....I have it and it is more of a pamphlet than a book. Soft cover, some 40pp long, absolutely gorgeous colour plates (7) by the brilliant Ron Embleton, many B+W photos of helmets, weapons etc and some B+W drawings of Corbridge and Newstead segmentata....ISBN 0 85983 151 5.
The text provides an excellent summary of the equipment of the Legions between roughly the invasion of Britain down to the Dura Europos equipment.
Published by Frank Graham, a small publishing house in Newcastle England who publish a series of these pamphlets, mostly connected to Hadrian's wall and sold in tourist shops and museums along it ( Newcastle is at the Eastern end of the Wall)
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Is it still in print? I have only seen it in used condition. How much would you say a new/used one is worth? Also, I'm not sure what a B+W is... :?:
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I don't think it is still in print....members in Northern England may be able to say. Frank Graham himself died in 2006, aged 93, and I don't know if the frirm survived him.....I can't find any mention of it on the internet. Many of his booklets are listed under 'rare, old and out-of-print' books......I have no idea what their worth is currently - I guess an internet search of the title would give you an idea....it is available from Amazon, Abebooks etc Used/Secondhand at $8-26 or so, and it would be worth that sort of price range when you consider you are getting roughly as many colour plates ( and they are very,very good) as a much more expensive Osprey book!
I bought mine new on Hadrian's wall in 1980 for £1-50 !! (roughly $2 at current exchange rates)
"B+W" is short for 'Black-and-White' photos etc
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Interesting, I'll have to think about buying it sometime. Thanks!
I looked around alot for his "The Armour of Imperial Rome". The cheapest I could find it for was around $300 I think. Most were around $500 and one was even $1,000.
Crazy.
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