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Message:: [QUOTE="Tom B, post: 1600474, member: 11854"]Everyone is telling you to go with your gut, but I'll be more blunt and tell you that you would be foolish, in my opinion, to buy a reference book that is 42-years old when you can buy the updated reference of the same book that is 4-years old (or however many years ago it was published). Buy the fourth edition and be happy with it. As for the other comments about publishing books, I will add some experienced opinion to the thread. I worked with Dick Graham on the Reeded Edge half dollar die variety book that was just published. It is titled A Registry of Die Varieties of Reeded Edge Half Dollars 1836-1839. Dick did all the work for the die varieties while I did all the work for the Introduction as well as editing the manuscript. We had it published ourselves as a spiral-bound book with heavy paper and card stock cover. The cost was far more than $10 per copy for us to have it published. This money came out of our pockets and was in addition to the years of research and writing we had put into the book without compensation. Only 325-copies were printed because we did not know how much demand there would be and, shockingly, the book essentially sold out in only a few months. Those who hemmed and hawed to find out if others liked the book or those who couldn't find it in their budget to spend $65 for the definitive text on the series are now out of luck and have to buy one on the secondary market.[/QUOTE]