How To Reinstall Deleted Address Book App?

I foolishly deleted the Address Book application after updating to 10.9, and I want it back.
The solutions I've found all involve reinstalling the OS from an install disc, which is not an option for Macbook Airs like mine.
I redownloaded the 10.8 install image, but it gives me this error on open: "OS X 10.8 cannot be installed on this computer."
Help me, Obi Wan. You're my only hope.

@mende1, donktar only wants to get a deleted app back, reverting the entire OS is overkill don't you think!?
'Address book', are you sure it wasn't called 'Contacts'? Why are you attempting to install it from 10.8? It exists in 10.9 but is called Contacts. Address book had a name change in 10.7 or 10.8 IIRC.
You should be able to install 10.9 'in place' so it restores the default apps. Just make sure you don't erase the HD once running from the installer.
Another option is to use Pacifist to extract it from the installer packages - http://charlessoft.com. I'm not sure if anyone has located which package it is stored inside for 10.9, but if you are willing to do some exploring it will be somewhere inside "Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg"
Use the Finders right click Menu > Show package contents… to find & open the InstallESD.dmg and then start
looking at the packages in Pacifist. You can extract the contents to restore the apps, I don't recommend restoring older versions of apps to newer OS's.

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