It's funny how this story pops up now and then on different sites. It has a 3 year recycle rate, hopping from geek aggregator to geek aggregator. It is a great book though, my wife found ours at a thrift store in palo alto, for somthing like $50.

I'd seen it originally in the mid 80s and was kind not obsessed enough to buy it on ebay but looking it up in rare book rooms to try to find a leather bound edition. Great book to have ,though.