Pat, I just checked out the price on Amazon: from $823-$1300.  I'll give you a bargain: $815 plus S&H.

I know Tom at least used to have a basement full of the older, un-illustrated editions, and that's where I got mine.  Perhaps he'll chime in, otherwise I'd suggest sending him a message through here.  You can get all the info at a far more reasonable price.

If it is ever posted online, someone will be hearing from my lawyer.

And I keep threatening to print another 1000 copies of the book in hopes of driving the price down, but it hasn't worked at all, so one of these days I may just have to print those 1000 copies.  I figure it would be fair game to sell them for $100 each and use the money to pay for some upcoming family educational expenses.

Tom Doak,

Do it!

I'll make that 2 copies you don't have to worry about selling.

CPS

A friend of mine just found a copy at a St. Paul bookstore for $5.

He knows what it's worth, and I'm confident he wouldn't be happy to see 1,000 more hit the market -- unless somebody meets his $800 eBay asking price, in which case I'm sure he'd then be delighted.

Capitalism, for all its faults, is still an amazingly powerful concept.

And I keep threatening to print another 1000 copies of the book in hopes of driving the price down, but it hasn't worked at all, so one of these days I may just have to print those 1000 copies.  I figure it would be fair game to sell them for $100 each and use the money to pay for some upcoming family educational expenses.

Sign me up, too.  The going market price is painful.  

And me too please. It is getting dispiriting looking around the 2nd hand book shops.

If it is ever posted online, someone will be hearing from my lawyer.

And I keep threatening to print another 1000 copies of the book in hopes of driving the price down, but it hasn't worked at all, so one of these days I may just have to print those 1000 copies.  I figure it would be fair game to sell them for $100 each and use the money to pay for some upcoming family educational expenses.

That adds up to about 2 years tuition + living expenses at your alma mater, Tom.

Even though you will hear something from the weenies who won an eBay auction in the last year or so, your scheme seems infinitely preferable to saddling yourself or Doak Jnr with a whole bunch of debt... of course, as a prospective father, the most important thing I took out of your post was the need to create something that will generate about $250,000 in 18 years time.  Time for me to take the dunce cap off and put the thinking cap on.

I have a 1996 SBP version that has a printing error.  The text for Garden City in the Gourmet's Choice is the text for Durban CC.  When I checked out Durban CC, the text was correct.  The photos in the GCGC section are correct but the text is nowhere to be found in the book.  Does anyone else with that edition have the GC text missing with DCC substituted?

Is this like the upside down airmail stamp and I can expect it to fetch thousands of dollars ?  Or should I simply write to Tom and ask him to send me a copy of the Garden City text?  

I'd also sign up for what promises to be a long list!  Tom, you'd be doing your young 'uns AND the golfing world a great favor.

Jamey

Tom was kind enough to sell me one of his "basement" copies a year or so ago.  I don't know if he has any left, but the time he said he had about 100 copies of the unillustrated version.  I mailed him a check and he sent he a signed, numbered copy.

Tom:

You may have done this before, but can you outline the definitive list of the versions of the CG that exist?  The CG has gotten so much attention (as evidenced by the ebay prices) that it would be interesting to hear about the progression of this publication.

If I recall, it started with a limited number of photocopies you gave to family and friends.  There are apparently a couple of other versions - with illustrations, with printing errors, etc.  

Thanks,

Andy

Add me too.