Got mine in '92, I think. Still on my shelf.
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This is one that you can Google with filetype:pdf and it’ll come up immediately.
Literally shared from major universities, too!
You can find a paperback copy for under $12 with shipping, and the pdf version is widely available on the internet. The kindle version is purely a "I really want the kindle version" purchase.
Yeah, turns out that I really REALLY want that .pdf purchase so I can put it on my own hard drive and not have it disappear and get deleted because daddy bezos says the license expired.
Fuck amazon.
It's still one of the best PL books. I learned C from it when I was 16, years before the web.