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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:16 am

A MEMOIR OF LIEUTENANT JOSIAH AYLMER COGHILL

Can anybody give me some more background on this book which i have recently ordered. I cannot remember any references to it in other publications.

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:03 am

It was a private publication by his family.

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:56 am

Robin

What a purchase, I've been chasing a copy of that book for years.

Andy

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:53 pm

Hello Andy,
There is currently one copy of this book for sale listed on the Abebooks.com website.
Regards,
Harold Raugh

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:10 pm

Thanks Harold - Sadly I'll have to wait until I can find one more affordable than the �105 plus p&p from the US.

Thanks for the tip off though.

Andy

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:32 pm

You're quite welcome, Andy. It's a bit out of my price range, too! But Abebooks.com is a good search engine/source for out-of-print and hard to find books. I've been using it for years with good results.
Cheers,
Harold

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:49 am

Thanks for your replies. I hope i am not transgressing any rules by supplying my booksellers name but as he has been mentioned previously here goes [email protected] Ian Halford was previously resident in Undeberg SA but has relocated to the UK. He has details of 2 of these books.

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:39 am

I use Abebooks and occasionally Amazon but have learnt that www.bookfinder.com searches all these and other book dealers. This is useful when searching forb that rare book

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:49 am

This is interesting. Thanks. Abebooks.com acquired Bookfinder.com some time ago, and Amazon.com is about to acquire Abebooks.com! In terms of book search engines, it may be a smaller world than we realize!
Regards,
Harold

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:29 am

�105!!! I feel rather guilty to admit that I acquired my copy for only a fiver - although it was over 25 years ago in Hay-on-Wye; not so far, I suppose, from Brecon itself.

Isn't the original diary at Brecon nowadays, or in the NMA?

Peter

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:34 pm

Peter,

You are indeed a very lucky man (!) - I paid a tad more for my copy from Clarke's in Cape Town several years ago. [My copy was formerly owned by a member of the Coghill family]

regards,

AMB

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:40 pm

I was very disappointed that when my book dealer contacted the seller (Abebooks) he was informed that they no longer had it
Thats the second order in a week that i have had from sellers declining the order.
If the book is sold surely they have an obligation to remove it promptly

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:53 pm

Robin,

Not sure if you're still after a copy of this book, but there is another copy avail at:

http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?booknr=308306077&source=bookfinder

Regards,

AMB

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:38 pm

Thank you. I appreciate your reply

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:39 am

Well, at long last it arrived, from a different source but very good condition. I was surprised it was a 1968 publication, thought it would have been earlier
Final cost R2000 or just under GBP140
Now, what shall i hunt down next?