Happy to report back that AJTT is in stock at the Omega Boutique on 5th avenue. In addition to dropping your $435, I should warn you that you will be accosted by the manager before being allowed to leave the store. I called ahead to reserve mine, and the manager came bounding out of the back saying that he had to see who bought it. Apparently they spend most of their day selling to people with bigger wallets than brains (or at least reference libraries). In no time, we had the plastic wrap off and he was excitedly pointing out his favorite parts. Good to know their employees have real passion! Luckily the President was in town yesterday, clogging up traffic on the East side, so I had an excuse when I arrived to my sister-in-laws birthday dinner 15 minutes late. Their return policy was quite amusing too: I had to initial the receipt acknowledging that they would accept returns for 14 days, but only for store credit. And as the lady helpfully pointed out, "We don't have anything less than that price, so you couldn't get anything."
Will have to pick mine up when I get back to NYC...have been putting off this purchase for a while. Congrats!
If you call and ask for the manager, based on his excitement, he may be willing to mail this tome. Surely the shipping would be less than or equivalent to NYC sales tax.