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[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Mind you, in Fresno it's not all that hard to find an un-read book-club copy of "Vineland" in one of our used book stores. It's just hard to find any used bookstores that can stay open in this town. I've never found any TRP in the thrift stores.
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From: MalignD at aol.com
> << Except in Bookish College towns, like Santa Cruz or Berkeley or Olympia, 
> WA. You can just about always find an original issue mass market copy of COL 
> 49, the one with Oed on the cover twisting to the Paranoids. Or maby the frug or 
> the swim, can't really tell from the line drawing.  >>
> 
> Yes, I get that; I live in New York where all that applies tenfold.  Was 
> speaking about elsewhere.