I own a copy, never fails to weird people out when they flip through. Highly recommend.

Copies hung around my partners secondhand bookshop for years. This was in the 1980s. Properly shelved under "esoterica"

1st Ed. Now worth $6,000 oh well.

• giraffe_lady

  today at 1:20 AM

  My local (but big city) library had a circulating copy until about five years ago. It mostly stayed in my home, once or twice a year someone else would request it and I'd give it back for a few months. It's in library use only now but I took great care of it lol.

I have a nice copy, at least as of a few years ago you can get them for relatively cheap. I've been meaning to put scans of the text into OpenCV and play a bit to see if there's an underlying code. The number system in the page numbers has been cracked as far as I know.

Hmmm, Now I need to find out where my copy is hiding. I really need to reorganize the books again. I savored this for a while, but have not gone through the entire book yet. Sort of like War & Peace - books that everyone must read before they die, and I am saving them for insurance.

It is so strange that books like this cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars to buy.

You might think the publisher would ........ publish some to sell.

• pavel_lishin

  today at 12:43 AM

  There might not be that much demand. My understanding is that a good printing of a book will only make money back in pretty large amounts; if there's only a thousand weirdos in the world who want to buy it (and I'm one of those thousand), it'll only barely break even, if that.

  Actually, I'm wrong, there is a newly published version that costs under a hundred bucks.

• habitue

  today at 1:42 AM

  The first edition is expensive. The current edition is ~$90 for a full color hardcover (expensive but not ruinius if you really want it)

  • summa_tech

    today at 2:23 AM

    And honestly pretty great, unless you are a collector. It's well done.

    The book itself is beautiful and haunting. But I don't think it's for everyone... I have a copy, and I gifted one to someone in my family who really didn't understand the point.