I am trying to find and purchase a copy of the out-of-print book "The
Driver" by Garet Garrett (I believe that its initial publication was
in 1922). A successful answer is one that points me to the exact
location where a physical copy of this book is currently available for
purchase by me (meaning no backorders or search services, etc).
Thanks!

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Clarification of Question by googled-ga on 24 Oct 2002 22:28 PDT

To provide more incentive, just bumped the list price to $21.00 (up
from the original $12.00)...

Hm, you may have already seen this ebay auction which closed last
week:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1570069070

I wasn't able to find any other bookseller elsewhere currently selling
a copy.

Here's part of the Library of Congress entry on it:

Personal Name:    Garrett, Garet, 1878-1954.
Main Title:    The driver, by Garet Garrett ...
Published/Created:    New York, E.P. Dutton & company [c1922]
Description:    v p., 1 l., 294 p. 19 1/2 cm.
Subjects:    Railroads--Fiction.

It seems that it was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post.  So if
you really want to own the text, I suppose you could try tracking down
those issues.

Wow. Good find on the ebay auction. Bummer that I did not start
watching ebay until two days after that. But, I have now dropped a
note to both the Seller - to see if he may have leads on any other
copies - and he has already responded no - and the Buyer - to see if
he might be willing to part with his new purchase - still waiting to
hear back from him... if that works, I would consider that to be very
much a successful answer to the question - but as that would appear to
be still very much a long shot, please feel free to keep on looking
everyone!

Also, good tidbit regarding the Saturday Evening Post! If someone can
find the complete serialized set of magazines available for purchase
by me, that would also be a more than acceptable answer to this
question. But as that too would still seem to be very much of a long
shot, please feel free to keep looking everyone... Thanks!

Googled, have you tried signing up for any of the "notification lists"
offered by the major used book dealers? (Tell them what book you want,
and they notify you when a copy comes in.) Amazon.com would be one
place to do this, but possibly the best used book source online is
here:

http://www.alibris.com/bookfetch/home.cfm?S=R&wauthor=Garet%20Garrett

Good luck!

Dear googled,

Here are some more used book sites - personally, I prefer most of them
over Alibris:

1. http://www.abebooks.com (many booksellers, many books)

2. http://www.tomfolio.com (a co-op of independent booksellers)

3. http://www.bookfinder.com (Searches many sites) 

4. http://used.addall.com/ (Also searches many sites)

5. Amazon zShops
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/search/fixed-search.html/ref=z_h_tn_as/103-5186336-6944652

6. http://www.bibliophile.net (has an international flavour)

7. http://www.bookavenue.com

Good luck,
hummer

Thanks for suggesting the "saved search" sites - there were a couple
that I had previously missed. However, it was frustration with having
to wait on one of those "want lists" that led me to post the question
in the first place in the hopes that a copy might materialize from an
unexpected or previously unknown source or direction. Meanwhile, I did
hear back from the winner of that previously mentioned auction - the
one that I had missed by just two days. Oddly enough, it turns out
that he was the editor of a book on Garrett that I had recently read -
and which had started me off once again on the search for this book in
the first place! Small world, eh?