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    The Bren Gun Saga ?

    Is $300.00 way out of line to pay for the book The Bren Gun Saga 1999 updated version ?
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    It depends on how much you want the book and if you can find it cheaper elsewhere. If you can't find it cheaper elsewhere and you really want the book, you are going to have to pay $300, I'm afraid.

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    I’ve seen for over $600 on Amazon... soooooo.... seems cheap now!

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    Hummmmmm at $600 I might let go!

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    The last Bren Gun Saga that sold on E-Bay a couple of weeks ago was the 1986 first edition , and sold for $200.00. The one I was told to purchase was the 1999 second revised edition that has about 100 more pages and corrections made to the first book . That is the one I bought today . I was holding off waiting for Peter Laidlericon's book to come out , but it seems that will not be .
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    Sometimes it best to wait for the last few seconds of an auction on eBay, then pounce!

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    Well........ if you want the book to look good on your book shelf then here's a better idea. Borrow your friends and copy the cover. Then put that cover onto a similarly sized book and slip THAT book onto your book shelf. Problem solved and cheap too. If you want the book for its information, then personally, I'd say that it was $290 over priced. Just my view of course

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    Seen two for sale here in the UKicon this summer...... for .......£200 each, both sold with little hesitation!!

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    I was the only bidder on the 1999 edition . the 1986 edition that sold earlier had 12 bidders ,and it was in lesser condition with a damaged dust cover and sold for $200.00 . The book originally sold for under $70.00 when it was still in print .I just purchased my Bren MkII in April of this year . It's like a fine wine it gets better as time goes on .

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    Come a little bit closer........ I don't want everyone to learn this so I'll talk in a whisper..... You could just look on Ebay and find a little officially published booklet titled A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BREN LIGHT MACHINE GUN. Either the very post war 1948 version or the 1969 version that details the L4 variants or the last 12/83 version - they're all pretty much the same with ongoing additions. Then get hold of the USER HANDBOOK FOR THE .303" BREN GUN AND 7.62mm BREN L4A1 TO L4A7 or the '84 booklet that includes the A8 and 9's. With that alone you have pretty much got 2//3rds of the book. Then get a couple of the parts lists and the little Skennertonicon SAIS book and that's pretty much it. I'm just saying that if you want to learn about the Bren these books will tell you what the others do.

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