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From: "Quilla Roth via groups.io" <qroth=verizon.net@groups.io>

To: "WRS" <wrslist@groups.io>

Sent: Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 4:28 PM

Subject: [WRS] New Biography of George Pipe Available for Order Soon

The publication date for the George Pipe biography that John Loveless has been writing has been announced: November 6. It should be a interesting and fun read, including both anecdotes and drawings from George as well as photographs of people/places/things. Here’s a link to the promo blurb on the Central Council website ( https://cccbr.org.uk/2020/10/04/shake-my-hand-and-ill-show-you-the-ropes/).

While you can order the book directly from the Ringing World now, I highly recommend you hold off for a little while. Although the single copy price for UK purchasers is £18.50, international postage from the UK has become VERY expensive, and the RW price including postage will be £30 (~$40) for individual copies for copies sent to the US. However, since better quantity pricing is being offered through the end of the 2020, we’re encouraging people who want the book to order it through the NAG Book Service. The Book Service will be able to combine individual orders and thence get the lower pricing. Bruce is already talking with the RW to get final pricing. If at least 5 books are ordered, the per-copy price including postage will likely drop to around $30 (and possibly lower if there are 10 or more ordered).

If you’re interested in this book, watch for more info in the next couple of weeks about ordering it through the Book Service.

Background: George Pipe was a member of the band of English ringers who were brought over to ring for the dedication of the Cathedral bells in May 1964. He was thereafter a friend of Washington ringing and ringers. George came from a great ringing family and was himself a renowned ringer who lead an interesting life, including time in Australia as well as the UK.

/Quilla

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