At that price, better to buy a stamp and write the author directly, including a check big enough to cover hardcover list price, plus postage. They might have a

At that price, better to buy a stamp and write the author directly, including a check big enough to cover hardcover list price, plus postage. They might have an extra copy in a box in storage somewhere, and they might even sign it for you. I'd be afraid that if I ordered the conspicuously expensive one, it would show up hollowed out and filled with dirty fentanyl-heroin, or the book is utterly normal, and the seller is a money launderer that now has my home shipping address.