My search was in the pre-WWW days. It is a lot easier today. I have certainly benefitted from 'the long tail'.

>I had to have one recently for my daughter. It was required reading over last summer and it could not be the abridged version. I had to either order it online, or have the bookstore get it for me. Everything carried instock was the abridged version.
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>>>>>>I'm not sure which books I have read most often. "The World According To Garp", "The Catcher in the Rye", and "Crime and Punishment" all have to be up there.
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>>>>>Is 'Crime and Punishment' a full edition?
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>>>>Full in what sense? It seems full enough to me. The most recent, and best, edition I have is the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.
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>>>I meant that many famous books are printed in USA in brief version, i.e. text reduced by few times. If you have a full edition, it should be a big folio, then I have another question. Did you read it in entirety?
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>>That drives me crazy. It took me years to find an unabridged version of "The Count of Monte Cristo".
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>>Bruce