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I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry Send a noteboard - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM

So far I can't find it. There is a Gallimard edition from 1985 that is listed in some places as hardcover but anywhere it's listed in French it also says "Poche". Aside from that there are some antiquated copies. I might buy one of them if nothing else works out.

If only I had any personal contacts with French publishers. I'd love to ask them why there seems to be no market at all for hardcovers.

Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.

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Sounds fun. I'll check it out. Thanks.

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I'll put him on the list. Ghavrel - 07/02/2011 08:50:15 AM 881 Views

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I've been looking for a hardcover edition of Là-Bas in French. Tom - 07/02/2011 06:05:27 AM 881 Views

I get the sense that would be very expensive if found Larry - 07/02/2011 08:38:37 AM 978 Views

Might as well ask American publishers where the obsession with hardcovers comes from. Legolas - 07/02/2011 09:32:50 PM 867 Views

Don't libraries as a rule have hardcovers? jh - 07/02/2011 09:56:07 PM 874 Views

Not really, no. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:04:52 PM 914 Views

Huh. Belgians. *NM* jh - 08/02/2011 07:23:05 AM 385 Views

irish libraries are probably 2/3 paperback to 1/3 hardback *NM* Stephen - 09/02/2011 12:00:11 AM 436 Views

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Yes, but those are matters of what one is used to, like I said. Legolas - 07/02/2011 10:23:32 PM 912 Views

so they are buying paperbacks and turning them into hardbacks random thoughts - 09/02/2011 03:14:55 PM 921 Views

Yes, that's definitely a factor. Legolas - 09/02/2011 07:30:14 PM 934 Views

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