Ken,
Thanks for the heads up on the shortened version. I will make sure I buy it
right from Burt Levy's site. It should be worth the extra money knowing that
the middle man is cut out and the money is going where it should be going.
Peter Schoppelry
triumphs@mcleodusa.net writes:
> Peter:
>
> In Levy's compilation of short stories (The Potside Companion) he tells of a
> short involvement with one of the major publishers. One of the complaints
> was that they issued a printing of The Last Open Road that was severely
> edited. Make sure that the issue being sold by Amazon is not that printing
> or you will be missing a large portion of the first story.
>
> Once again, the mass merchandisers screw it all up in the name of profit.
> This was exactly my gripe recently in the "Schelp Boys" thread. By
> insisting on saving $7.50 you ran the risk of diluting the product and the
> author's royalty is surely much smaller.
>
> Kg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of PeterSchop@aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 8:56 PM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: The Last Road Home? or something like that
>
> Thanks to the list, I found out that the book I am looking for is "The Last
> Open Road" by B.S. Levy. It is in the TRF Christmas catalog as well as at
> www.lastopenroad.com, autographed no less by Burt himself for $25. Or for
> $17.50, I can buy it from amazon.com.
>
> Thanks to everybody who replied to my post. This list is great.
> Peter Schoppelry
>
>
> >
> > There was a fictional book mentioned on the list about 3 or 4 months ago
> > whose name escapes me? It was something like "The Last Road Home." It was
> > in
> > a series of three maybe? I believe it was about racing LBC's back in the
> > 50's
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