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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:18:05 -0600, R. B. Love wrote:
>> Do you work on comission?  That's a $700 book.
> Wow, and these are used books! No, I bought it long time ago in 80's, my
> student times. Is it out of print? I cannot imagine that, the book a must
> like Janke-Emde-Loesch and Abramowitz-Stegun.

It's publication date is 1976, and it's out of print.

As to the price, read this article in the NY Times:
<http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/the-13109-perlstein-paperback/>

Online book dealers use pricing algorithms and software to
track prices and sell lots of "rare but not collectible"
books (in the words of the article) at extraordinarily high
prices. The cover price for this book was $44.