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   Hello John!   
      
    JD> $250 is just blatant robbery.   
      
   I'm sure the Limited Editions are very nicely built.   
      
   Obama's book:   
      
    A Promised Land | Hardcover   
   Barack Obama   
   Pblisher: Crown   
   Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State / Political Science /   
   American Government - Executive Branch / History / United States - 21st Century   
   Published Nov 17, 2020   
   $45.00 US / $55.00 CA list price   
      
     ..seemed like an impressive volume in terms of material     
   quality.  Someone remarked "it was designed to last".   
      
   Even this one seemed quite impressive at the price:   
      
    Telephone Tales | Hardcover   
   Gianni Rodari | Valerio Vidali | Antony Shugaar   
   Enchanted Lion Books | Enchanted Lion Books   
   Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories / Imagination & Play / Short Stories   
   Ages 8-12   
   Published Sep 18, 2020   
   $27.95 US / $41.95 CA list price   
      
   "Every night, at nine o'clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an     
   accountant who often has to travel for work, calls his daughter     
   and tells her a bedtime story. But since it's still the 20th     
   century world of pay phones, each story has to be told in the     
   time that a single coin will buy.   
      
   "Reminiscent of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights,   
   Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales is composed of many stories--in   
   fact, seventy short stories, with one for each phone call. Each   
   story is set in a different place and a different time, with   
   unconventional characters and a wonderful mix of reality and   
   fantasy. One night, it's a carousel so beloved by children that   
   an old man finally sneaks on to understand why, and as he sails   
   above the world, he does. Or, it's a land filled with butter   
   men, roads paved with chocolate, or a young shrimp who has the   
   courage to do things in a different way from what he's supposed   
   to do.   
      
   It's an entertaining piece of construction in addition to the     
   stories within.   
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