I have just seen cola cowboys on ebay if anyone is interested, did nt get the ebay number-no pen! but its got about 5 days to go.
This one on ebay has a buy it now option, a bit too much 4 me
Item No 8707424705
£175 is a bit much for anyone i would of thought 
How much would you pay for it ■■
scaniaman:
How much would you pay for it ■■
It all depends on how bad people want it,
some of the prices they go for on ebay are crazy
Mine cost me £32 which was`nt to bad 
its already up to £50 some one must want it bad!!
I got my copy about 6 or 7 years ago from amazon for about £9 I don’t think I’d part with my copy though, well might for £175 like the 1 on ebay
Cowboys is one of the most sought after books on ebay!!!
Amazing the price they go for… I have bid three times for one and each time it has gone for over £75!!
Is it that good a book?
I have three ‘trucking’ books … one is called Coffee To Go by that well known author Neil Hobbs. The next is called Danger-Heavy Goods by Robert Hutchinson (this is an American version so has a slightly different title to the original) which is ace and at this moment I cannot see the other one on the bookshelf so shall ask wifey where it is but am sure it is called something like 1000 miles to Nowhere. All editions are A1 condition
- Bear, it’s called “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere”, by Graham Coster, for anyone who has not read it, secondhand copies start at £3.00 + shipping on abebooks.co.uk
A good read for that money, but on the same site Cola Cowboys starts at £100 and rises to £390 for a first edition hardback.
Better still, don’t spend anything - get the local library to provide it.
Sheeter, is that 100 miles book about a sed ack on Fransens running the ussr? If so, Ive read it and it’s a dmaned good read!
Mal, that’s the book, the Strato is from Fransen Transport of Kidderminster and the first part of the book, East is of the journey from the UK to Russia.
West, the second part, is an American trip.
Sheeter:
Mal, that’s the book, the Strato is from Fransen Transport of Kidderminster and the first part of the book, East is of the journey from the UK to Russia.West, the second part, is an American trip.
Thats right Sheeter! I forgot all about the west one, I thought the tale about the strato in russia was the best!
TheBear:
Cowboys is one of the most sought after books on ebay!!!
Amazing the price they go for… I have bid three times for one and each time it has gone for over £75!!
Is it that good a book?
I have three ‘trucking’ books … one is called Coffee To Go by that well known author Neil Hobbs. The next is called Danger-Heavy Goods by Robert Hutchinson (this is an American version so has a slightly different title to the original) which is ace and at this moment I cannot see the other one on the bookshelf so shall ask wifey where it is but am sure it is called something like 1000 miles to Nowhere. All editions are A1 condition
I must have nearly 300 hardback transport related books - and some of the rare ones are in there (prices are what they sell for on specialist book stalls when they are available - not what I paid for them):
A Road Transport Heritage Vol 1 - goes for £50 upwards
A Pictorial History of BRS Trucks - anything from £40 - £100 - During an insane two week period earlier in the year, I actually acquired three copies of this book on eBay, and the dearest was £32. It’s desirability on the collectors scene was apparent when one of them sold for £65 within an hour of it going on sale at Donnington.
Cola Cowboys (Hardback with transparent oversleeve) - Available on abebooks from £55 - £249
Danger - Heavy Goods - anything from £50 - £70
A History of Roadtrains in the Northern Territory (Australian) - known to have been sold for over £100 for 1st edition)
I have plenty of obscure softback books from many years ago as well as stuff ranging from the likes of ‘The Engine that Roared’ which is a massive tome about the ■■■■■■■ engine company to ‘The Scottish Carter’ which documents the horse Carters in Scotland from the mid 1800s up to the late sixties.
Don’t fall for the inflated prices that Cola Cowboys goes for on eBay - use the online booksearch engines and you CAN find books in excellent condition for a fraction of the auction prices - you just have to keep checking if they don’t show up straight away… I paid many, many pounds less than the example on eBay at the moment and it was a direct sale with a UK bookshop.
I must just add that I also got a copy of Coffee to Go online through abebooks, and not Amazon as others on here appear to have done.
marky:
[A History of Roadtrains in the Northern Territory (Australian) - known to have been sold for over £100 for 1st edition)
Mark,
This is the one subtitled ‘1934-1988’ by John Maddock isn’t it? You sent me scurrying to the bookshelf mentioning that price, not that I would ever sell it, but mine is a 1989 edition - one year after the first.
I bought it from Ninehead some time in the 90s and wrote to the author via the publisher with some detailed questions to fill in gaps in my memory of the Buntine Macks. The legendary Noel Buntine was my boss for a short time in the 60s. I was, and still am, writing of my experiences there and elsewhere. Unfortunately the publishers replied with the sad news that John had recently died and, although they couldn’t comment on the points I raised, did give me permission to quote extensively from the book provided I credited both them and him.
A great book which I constantly return to time and again.
If anyone is interested in my small part in that era, a search on here for a thread entitled ‘Cows and Dingoes’ gives a bit of an insight.
Salut, David.
It is indeed the same book David.
I suppose it’s like anything else though, things only sell for what people are prepared to pay for them.
To be honest, the first book on the list I posted (A Road Transport Heritage) was one I’d been after for eight years before I managed to locate it at a price I was prepared to pay.
Once the specialists know a book is in demand, the prices go sky-rocketing. One such seller had two copies and offered me one of them for £50 without even having received it. I know he only paid a little over twice that amount for the collection that included it, but he knew I was after the book. I bided my time and got it elsewhere a couple of years later.
The BRS book is another good example - it is a nice book, but only has a little over 100 pages and is mostly pictures. Again, it’s rarity has meant that people are prepared to bid (what seem to me) crazy money for it.
I’ll get off my soap-box now.