WTF, Amazon seller?

I have been reading William Temple's book on St John's Gospel. It is very good, and I have been considering buying a copy (necessarily second hand, as while it has been reissued in paperback, I believe it is no longer in print).

However, dear person trying to flog a 1980s paperback copy on Amazon for $999.98.... I don't think you are going to find any takers.

Or, alternatively, I could spend £4 on it and get a first edition hardback in fair condition from Abebooks. Decisions, decisions!

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Article about Leonard Cohen from today's Grauniad. Am really looking forward to hearing the new album (Guardian review here).

ILU William Temple, you sarcastic so and so...

"It was held [by nineteenth century critics] that the simple preacher of love towards God and man could be discerned behind the Marcan, Lucan and Matthaean narratives. (Why anyone should have troubled to crucify the Christ of Liberal Protestantism has always been a mystery)."

William Temple, Readings in St. John's Gospel (1945: xxiv).