Books that shouldn't be out of print

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(Preferably things that have been out of print for at least five years.)

I have a feeling this could get quite lengthy.

― Rockist Scientist, Monday, 3 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac in English. Francois Auissemain's "Pensees".

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

(That noise you hear is the sound of Alan, Amateurist, and I jotting down your suggestions to pass along to the appropriate editors.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

the anti-muffins by madeleine l'engle. i wanted so much to read that when i was younger and i read all the other austin books.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is Pale Fire still out of print (it was 10 years ago)?

― No One (SiggyBaby), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

The entirety of James Branch Cabell's work, preferably with the original illustrations. If Eddison's fallen out of print too, him as well -- keep the recent annotated editions but restore the illustrations for those as well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pale Fire is in print.

I see Evelyn Waugh's 'The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold' has been reissued by Penguin too. Alastair Gray's '1982 Janine' is back as well. Well, anyway.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pale Fire is certainly in print in the US.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pale Fire has been in paper with Vintage International since 1989.

(screw you crossposters)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, you are doing our work for us!

I was going to type Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads--but I just discovered that as of last year vol. 1 is back in print, with more to follow!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

how much sitwell and firbank are in print ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd quite like to read Paul Watzlawick's 'How Real Is Real?: Confusion, Disinformation, Communication' just to see what impressed me when I was 16 or so. I guess I could get a second hand copy though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sadaharu Oh's autobio (oop in the US anyway)

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

There were at least a couple of Steve Erickson's books out of print last I looked.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 3 February 2003 21:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

ERIC AND THE LOST PLANES by John Sheridan '70s children's book; I can't get it arggh

― spectra, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball (not hard to find used though)

Barthelme's The Dead Father (ditto)

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 03:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Prof. Bishop's "Joyce's Book of the Dark," so I can get it autographed.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 04:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey I know John (bishop)! Tell him Kyle is getting married. You should be able to find Book of the Dark at any used bookstore in Berkeley, or steal one from his house.

― kyle, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 05:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Georges Perec's "W, or the Memory of Childhood" is out of print (although not so difficult to find used on Amazon). I keep having to hunt down used copies to give people.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 08:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Suspects" by David Thompson. Great film noir book using characters from other film noir movies. Tragically unavailable.

Also I think the Ian Curtis book written by his wife?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think anything by Limonov in English (maybe French) is OOP. Um perhaps Beckett's poetry & non-UtV Lowry; of course if we get into theory/criticism we'd be here all day.

NZ-specific : Sylvia-Ashton Warner, John Courage, non-canon Ronald Hugh Morrieson.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Didn't... sheesh, is it Vintage? Whoever it is who reprinted all of Beckett's novels etc., didn't they also do the poetry? Although, really, while it's of a certain historical interest (and therefore should be in print) it's not really so wonderful as poetry, as I recall... certainly not as good poetry as some of the things labelled "short prose" (such as Ping, some of the Texts for Nothing, etc.).

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, yes, speaking of poetry that needs to come back into print: Robert Grenier's "The Sentences" is a book that I have read a lot about but which I've never seen a copy. Oh lordy would I be happy to have that.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

ASTERIX.

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

'The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine' by Donald Barthelme (Hey James, I think The Dead Father IS in print - I bought my copy just last year!)
'Barnaby' by Crockett Johnson
'A Bowl of Eggs' by David Thomson
'Leap Year' by Steve Erickson

Funnily enough, two books that have made a big impression on me recnetly just came back into print after lengthy absences: Charles Portis's 'Dog of the South' and Ron Loewinson's 'Magnetic Field(s)'.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

My book, confound those tossers at St. Martin's Press.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 09:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Vision of the Fool by Cecil Collins was out of print last time I checked - which reminds me...

― chris sallis, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

The World's End series by Monica Dickens, formerly published by Penguin, or is that Puffin? Likely the latter, on second thought.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 04:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whilst I was thinking about Nil Cohn on another thread I realized that I still haven't found a copy of Arfur: A Teenage Pinball Queen. It's probably out of print for a good reason, but I still want to read it!

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Simeon: I found the Cohn on http://www.abebooks.com which is great for out-of-print stuff
Nik Cohn:
Arfur : Teenage Pinball Queen
London : Weidenfeld & Nicholson first edition 1970. Hardback in original cloth, very good copy without dustwrapper. Bookseller Inventory #6847
Price: US$ 9.90 (Convert Currency)
Bookseller: Belfast Book Search, Belfast, United Kingdom

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookSearchPL?an=nik+cohn&tn=arfur&ph=2&sn=&imageField.y=7&imageField.x=61

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jerry - that is awesome.
I have ordered it from them. I think I was being small minded in my searches before - either looking within the UK or searching for the Penguin edition.
Anyway, can't thank you enough - I've had my eyes open for a copy of this for years.
Thankyou!

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

'ask' by paul morley
'rock and pop narcotic' by joe carducci.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bring back Don Quixote!

― Aimless, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Coleman Young' - Coleman A. Young w/ Lonnie Wheeler
'Revolutionary Suicide' - Huey P. Newton
'Mental Machine' / 'Stop By Here' / 'Freedom Come' - Electrifying Mojo
'Crash: The Life and Times of Dick Allen' - Dick Allen w/ Tim Whitaker
'Urban Blues' - Charles Keil
'Tropic of Nipples' - Richard Meltzer

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Boy Looked at Johnny. Actually it kinda SHOULD be out of print, because it's somehow fitting that it is, but people should still be able to read it.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

'new perspectives in music' roger sutherland

― zemko (bob), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

does Charles Shaar Murray still have anything in print?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

"About People," by William Steig. One of my favorite books, ever. I can't believe it's not in print.

― JD (JND), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Musrum by Eric Thacker & Anthony Earnshaw. Possibly, no definatly the wierdest book I own... by miles.
I tracked it down after years through http://www.biblio.com

― Celeste (Celeste), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Karate is a Thing of the Spirit" by Harry Crews

― Christopher (Christopher), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Pictures By J. R. R. Tolkien

― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Books which are on my Amazon wishlist and out of print (or listed as "unavailable," at least):

Ramsey Campbell's The Doll Who Ate His Mother. I like Campbell's short fiction a lot more than his novels, but damn if that isn't one kickass title.

Fantastic Alice, edited by Margaret Weis (stories borrowing from Lewis Carroll, etc.)

Greg Bear's Dinosaur Summer.

All the various Fletch books by Gregory MacDonald which aren't in print.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11.

Jeff Noon's Pixel Juice, dammit (for all I know, it's in print in the UK.)

Andrew Greeley's Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest.

Marcus Borg's The Lost Gospel Q.

Alister McGrath's In the Beginning.

Ben Witherington's The Paul Quest.

Huston Smith's Why Religion Matters.

Gerd Ludemann's Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

So how many of you have fallen madly in lust with someone based on the books they want to read?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Using Amazon wish lists as porn = classic! Can't say that I've done that, however.

I did stop dating a guy as soon as I realized that he didn't have any books in his apartment. That was freaky.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haven't done that, either, but I dig the idea. "What're your favorite books and why and what do you read and what are you reading now and have you read X and Y and Z" are pretty standard courtship questions for me. I have no idea what I'd do with someone who didn't have answers for em.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yeah, it has an effect on me: I was very pleased on my first visit to my last girlfriend's home (the Italian one, for those who pay that much attention) to find Proust, Wodehouse, Calvino, Pullman and Marquez on the shelves. The Buffy videos and the Kandinsky and Rothko prints did no harm either. But I note that we broke up after just a couple of months together nonetheless...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

This thread was made for the Nipper.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tep and Martin - the same for me. Basically, if I can't talk books with someone then they never make it to my "I might consider sleeping with you" list. I can be okay with someone who reads different things than me (er, but still *good* books, you understand - not schlock paperbacks) but we have to be able to talk about books and share books and learn new authors from each other and so forth. (This has backfired as of late, as both of my boys have been buying me books, and, well, I now have 11 standard-size bookshelves, double-stacked with "to be read" books - not that I am complaining, mind you - just that I have trouble deciding what to read next!)

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Um, I have had sex with several people whose taste in books is unknown to me, or of no interest to me. One, I'd be surprised if he'd ever read one (but he was really, really hot). It's only if we're talking about a relationship that I care.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, same here: But, while I'm not going to say I've never had sex outside of a relationship, I generally don't like to. So really the same rules apply.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

This wholething abt sleeping with ppl becuz they read books or not or whether their taste on it is the same or diff is really bad criteria. As bad as taste in music.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Denton Welch's collected short stories (very good) and journals (which I haven't read entirely). Mentioned elsehwere.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 6 February 2003 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julio: Having literary and music knowledge/taste be the only criteria is bad, but I'm not sure why it's bad as one of many criteria. People who read are sexy; people who don't read are freaks (in a bad way).

In other news: It would be nice if Raw, the commix magazine, were in print.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

''People who read are sexy; people who don't read are freaks (in a bad way).''

What abt ppl that read comic books or tabloid newspapers or thrashy paperbacks? I think most of us read something. Its just the way that some ppl here seem to be narrowing the range of things a person can read (I hope Laura was kidding abt 'scholock paperbacks').

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's not that people who don't read are bad people who should go to jail. But it's a behavior (or lack of a behavior) that I can't really relate to and which freaks me out and so, no, I can't imagine having a meaningful relationship with such a person.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

well, are you going to extend that to what people read/listen to as well?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 February 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd be more likely to date someone who read nothing-but-horror-novels than someone who read nothing-but-the-classics, so if anything, my biases would skew more towards trashy on that scale :) I could never date anyone I didn't have sufficient taste in common with, but it's the "in common" part that's important, not making sure they only like what I think they should. That's true for whatever media you'd want to mention, but it's especially true for books: I write. If I can't hand someone a story and say, "I think I like what I'm doing here, but I'm worried I'm ripping off Philip K Dick," and have them know who I mean and why, the relationship would never go anywhere.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julio: To a certain extent, probably, because ideally there would be a certain amount (but not too much) overlap in tastes. But really, as long as they could answer the question posed by this thread, I would probably be happy.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 6 February 2003 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

three months pass...

revive! this one ended way too soon.

Dave Rimmer, Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop (classic of Britpop sociology/theory, best record ever of early '80s pop)
Tom Wolfe et al, The New Journalism (classic collection of pieces by Didion, Thompson, Christgau etc.)
Scott Woods and Phil Dellio, I Wanna Be Sedated: Pop Music in the '70s (hilarious, tone-perfect look back at the then-most reviled musical decade, from 1994)

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

No one mentioned Blissed Out?

― chester (synkro), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

I was wanting an english translation of Galileo's discorsi but I can't find one.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link

Everything by ELLEN RASKIN (except "The Westing Game) is out of print, and that is a shame! "Figgs and Phantoms" was one of the most mind-blowing things I ever read as a child.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

Dave Rimmer, Like Punk Never Happened

Hey M, I finally found my copy...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

Lucinde, Friedrich Shlegel

― Prude (Prude), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:42 (twenty years ago) link

Voice Of The Fire by alang moore.

― rener (rener), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

I forget who wrote/drew this, but the children's book Who Needs Donuts is awesome and long out of print, I believe.

― sgs, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

found one for $6 in Seattle, Ned! but thanks

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

Ask by Paul Morley, because it would be wonderful if I could find a copy to read without having to shell out hundred$ of dollar$.

― Nicole (Nicole), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Rah for M! :-) We should restart that thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

The Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Seraphini

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

most of joseph mcelroy's novels....

― j fail (cenotaph), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

"Ask" by Paul Morley seconded, thirded, and squared.

― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.radiosonic.com/images/esc_ematheson.gif

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 19:06 (twenty years ago) link

"Tom Wolfe et al, The New Journalism"

I second this one.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

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