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Am I being tricked?

zxbrunozxbruno
edited March 2007 in Wanted
Hi guys. I recently bought this book from amazon.co.uk:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0246120185/202-9500833-2876666

Z. X. Spectrum (Hardcover)
by Ian R. Sinclair

* Hardcover: 160 pages
* Publisher: HarperCollins (Oct 1982)
* ISBN-10: 0246120185
* ISBN-13: 978-0246120182

But the seller sent me this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ZX-Spectrum-How-Get-Most/dp/0003830713/ref=sr_1_1/202-9500833-2876666?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173848352&sr=1-1

ZX Spectrum: How to Get the Most from it (Paperback)
by Ian R Sinclair

* Paperback: 160 pages
* Publisher: Collins (Feb 1985)
* ISBN-10: 0003830713
* ISBN-13: 978-0003830712

Can someone please tell me if it's the same book?
Even if it is, I wonder why I was sent the paperback one, and not the one that I bought.

Thanks guys.
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  • woodcock88woodcock88
    edited March 2007
    Enter 0246120185 at abebooks.co.uk and you get:

    http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=17&isbn=0246120185&x=44&sortby=3

    I believe the latter book was simply a reprint of the former with a new cover to fit the range of books that had subsequently emerged from Collins.

    C.
  • TechnicianSiTechnicianSi
    edited March 2007
    Just scanned Google, and it looks like the books are one and the same. Can't find any other Speccy titles other than The ZX Spectrum & How to Get the Most From It by Ian Sinclair. In the listings you provided, they're identical in everything but title, so I don't think you've been tricked at all m8.
  • rwaprwap
    edited March 2007
    Just to confuse matters slightly more, I have the book here that Bruno ordered - ISBN 0246120185
    "The ZX Spectrum and how to get the most from it"

    It is dated 1982 and by Granada but page numbers only go up to 130 (including the index).
    Supporting Sinclairs since 1986 !

    www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
    www.sellmyretro.com
  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited March 2007
    On a similar note, does anyone know if this Ian Sinclair is the same Ian Sinclair as wrote the (brilliant and very funny) William Jarneyvore stories?

    That Ian Sinclair also wrote a story about an artificial bacterium which eats metal -- predating Michael Crichton's Prey by about twenty years! :D
    I never make misteaks mistrakes misyales errurs — oh, sod it.
  • TechnicianSiTechnicianSi
    edited March 2007
    I don't think so. Just googled (my literary knowledge goes no further than Tolkien, Adams, the Red Dwarf novels and Stephen King in all honesty) and there are two prominent Sinclair authors. The one you're thinking of is probably Iain Sinclair.
    Here's the bibliography site I found:
    http://www.complete-review.com/authors/sinclairi.htm
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited March 2007
    I've contacted the seller. Let's see how friendly he is. :|
  • TechnicianSiTechnicianSi
    edited March 2007
    Was it the same book m8?
  • robert@fmrobert@fm
    edited March 2007
    TechnicianSi wrote: »
    The one you're thinking of is probably Iain Sinclair.

    Nope; Iain Sinclair is definitely not the guy who wrote the William Jarneyvore stories (which appeared at the beginning of the 1980s)...
    I never make misteaks mistrakes misyales errurs — oh, sod it.
  • TechnicianSiTechnicianSi
    edited March 2007
    Sorry. My mistake. As I said, my literary knowledge doesn't stretch too far lol.
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited March 2007
    He hasn't replied yet.
    If it's a book with exactly the same content I can accept that. It doesn't matter if it's not the hardcover version. But if he sold me a different book, I will have to do something about it.
  • redballoonredballoon
    edited March 2007
    zxbruno wrote: »
    I've contacted the seller. Let's see how friendly he is. :|

    It's been a day! Maybe the seller wasn't friendly after all and has killed zxbruno.
  • redballoonredballoon
    edited March 2007
    Ach pump. zxbruno replied before my "great" post.:sad:
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited March 2007
    redballoon wrote: »
    Ach pump.

    :lol:

    Great exclamation/insult that.
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

    https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
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