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The first volume of Burnham's Celestial Handbook is the earliest thing I can remember saving to buy. I would have been 14 or 15 years old when the second edition paperbacks came out. I didn't even have a telescope! I eventually bought the other volumes and read the text of all three cover to cover.
While I have a set of these back in the US in storage, I just bought another set from Amazon when I saw they were discounted. With the least expensive shipping method I think they totaled a bit over $60 for all three.
As an adult I visited Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff around 1999. For me, it was special knowing this was where these volumes were produced.
I was distraught to read about what happened to Robert Burnham when I started getting back into astronomy last year. Very sad.
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