It was either fifty cents or a dollar, I believe. Huzzah for library books sales.
Indeed.
You made me realize I was tired of waiting for it to magically appear one day (as happened for you) so I ordered it - cost me 3.5-7 times as much and will probably arrive in a pile of dust and mangle-ation but oh well.
On the other hand, while it was much more expensive than either of those,
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander did show up for less than I could get it online and in a great condition hardcover (just a slight abrasion across the edges of a couple of pages). I now have all of them: Herodotus and Thucydides (amplifying my Penguins), Xenophon's
Hellenika (which I didn't have at all), and now this (amplifying a B&N hardcover version of what was originally a Penguin, IIRC). I can't remember if I've talked about these here before, but these books are great: translations of the original text, but with running headers, timelines, sidenotes, copious footnotes, maps, and pictures of relevant items, and they are massively indexed and have many appendices on the history and the author. Actually, looking to confirm what had been released, I found out they have their own site:
The Landmark Ancient Histories. The "more information" link on individual titles, such as the
Arrian, takes you to a link to PDF samples from the books.
I sound like a shill for the publisher. Sorry - just think they're neat.
