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Well, somebody on Flickr has it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/typeoff/3867449610/

If it is as rare as it appears to be, I suppose I'd put photos of my copy on Flickr, too.

Seriously, though: this looks like an ideal candidate for "Inter-Library Loan". Go to your nearest library, and ask them to get it for you from one of the (few, large) libraries that has it.

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This book is only available in the central libary of India which don't have any policy of inter-library loan. So, if google has scanned it why not give it to download ?

Presumably because the copyright holders are not willing to allow them to do so. Google doesn't decide these things on their own, of course.

Now, why wouldn't the original copyright holder waive the rights? I'm guessing that, since the title seems to have been published by a local government, for purely bureaucratic reasons rather than ones of ideology.

Are there really no other libraries that have it? I'd be shocked if it's not in the Library of Congress, the British Library, or Widener.

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