Since i see that most of the answers above could not find you the book and neither can i after searching for a really long time i am going to give you some basic tips-------


*Haunt local antiquarian and used book stores
Let the bookstore owners know what you're looking for. There's also something special about the atmosphere of a good used book store, and there's a real tactile pleasure to handling the books themselves. Besides, when you browse, you often find something you didn't even know you wanted.
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*Some multi-store search services are available online. I've linked them at the bottom of this page.

*Check with your local libraries to find out when they're holding their book sales. These library sales are a splendid place to find books, and dirt cheap at that. (I give children books at Halloween -- not instead of candy, but with candy -- and I buy them, 3 or 4 for a dollar, at library book sales.)

*Check out the remainder tables at every bookstore you visit. In some cases, these are books newly out-of-print( not you case, but do give it a try )
These are good places to find the ephemeral kinds of books that often don't get preserved, especially humor books.

*Visit discount book warehouses. These places specialize in remaindered books, and they have thousands of titles. Humor books, which are ephemeral, and appeal to a narrow audience, often go out of print quickly; they are especially likely to turn up at remainder houses or remainder tables in bookstores. That's where I picked up multiple copies of Henry Beard's delightful French for Cats and Colin McEnroe's bizarre How To Lose Weight through Great Sex with Celebrities (the Elvis Way).


*Visit your local Goodwill and Salvation Army stores and other resale stores, where books are treated as commodities and sold for as little as a quarter apiece. In one large, undiscriminating pile, you may find everything from very used copies of Danielle Steele to first editions of Leaves of Grass to children's books. It takes a certain amount of patience to sort through such disorganized piles, but gold is there waiting to be found.

articles you may like--

1."Where can I find rare/old books/papers for sale?" -
http://askville.amazon.com/find-rare-books-papers-sale/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=10266482

Dealers and Finding Services for Out of Print Books--

Better World Books http://www.betterworld.com/. My favorite place to shop for books because it sells libraries' unneeded books and splits the profits of the sales between the libraries and organizations promoting literacy worldwide.
Abebooks http://www.abebooks.com/
Claims to be "the world's largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books." Note there are also Abebooks sites in France, Germany and the UK.
AddALL Book Search and Price Comparison http://www.addall.com/
Amazon http://amazon.com - partners with Bibliofind so that it will automatically check for used copies of any title.
the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America http://abaa.org/
Biblio: Used Books, Rare Books, and Out of Print Books http://biblio.com/
Bookfinder http://www.bookfinder.com/?mode=advanced -- another meta-search engine for used book catalogs.
Main Book Shop http://www.mainbookshop.com/ -- claims to be "the largest selection of publisher's overstocks and remainder books in the world."
Old Children's Books http://www.oldchildrensbooks.com
15,000+ rare and out of print children's hardback books.


A European antiquarian book dealer reminds me that there are European equivalents of these bookfinding services, including the following:
Chapitre.com http://www.chapitre.com/
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers http://www.ilab-lila.com/
Maremagnum Librorum http://www.maremagnum.com/
SFB - Suche & Finde Bucher http://www.sfb.at/

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