From: Rod Phillips, History, Carleton University, Ottawa
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Last week Geoffrey Giles pointed to the difficulty he had experienced
obtaining copies of Blocker and Warsh (eds), The Changing Face of Drink.
This alarmed me because I plan to use the book in a course that starts in
January, so I contacted the publisher at the University of Ottawa (about
two kilometers from Carleton) and forwarded Professor Giles's comments.

I received this reply:

> Dear Professor Phillips,
>
>       Thank you for your enquiry regarding The Changing Face of Drink,
> edited by Blocker and Warsh, published by Les publications Histoire
> sociale - Social History Inc. You may be interested to know that the
> copies of this book sent to the University of Florida in Gainsville
> were shipped October 5 in response to an order that had been placed
> by telephone in September. I did not receive an order from the
> bookstore in July; I have been through all the files checking to make
> sure that I had not overlooked a fax or other message.
>
> Sincerely,
> Valerie Kremer
> editorial coordinator
> Histoire sociale - Social History
>

Clearly there's a problem here, but who knows where it's located. For
what it's worth, Ms Kremer went on to assure me that copies are
available.  I've found this a good volume of essays, and I hope that
any difficulties in responding to orders have been sorted out.

Roderick Phillips
Editor, Journal of Family History/
Professor, Department of History
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