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[Leith]

4. Washington DC for old and obscure tech books

I found 2 books there for reference on the operating system of an IBM mainframe. "So what?" you say? Try your local bookstore to see if they can order something like that - they probably don't even include that publisher in their database. And there really isn't much call for it, and that makes such a small printing edition and a book like that will run hundreds of dollars new. College textbooks are cheaper. I got both the books for around $15 ~ $20 each used.

This was over 20 years ago, so the stores probably aren't there any more.