BookFinder.com Report Fall 2010 @ BookFinder.com
Every year BookFinder.com tracks the most sought-after out-of-print titles in America. In this, the eighth edition, several books garnered enough attention for publishers to re-print them in the near future. We also find some out-of-print mainstays which are unlikely to see a printer again despite their popularity. But above all we collected the top 100 most sought after out-of print titles in America over the past 12 months, and here they are.
Born Collectibles:
If bookies took bets on out-of-print books our money would be on these titles staying off the presses for good.
Sex by Madonna
This explicit collection features photos of the Material Girl, without the material, has been a collector's item since it first hit shelves in 1992. Since Madonna is never one to do something twice, and the fact that the once highly controversial book is less edgy than it once was leads us to guess that Sex will remain out-of-print.
Promise Me Tomorrow by Nora Roberts
The Queen of Romance; Nora Roberts, has actively persuaded her loyal fan base to avoid this early novel for years. She hopes Promise Me Tomorrow is never republished. We suspect a used bookshop is the only place you will find this title.
Bound for New Life:
The following books are set to be reprinted within the following year
Old Southern Apples by Creighton Lee Calhoun
A reference guide describing over 1,800 apple varieties from The America South, both extant and extinct.
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy
Set during the First Indochina War, this classic French novel has been out-of-print in the US since 1962. The Centurions was made famous as the first novel to include "the ticking time bomb” scenario which debates whether the use of torture can be justified.
Aran Knitting by Alice Starmore
Last published in 1997, Aran Knitting is described by knitting enthusiasts as the definitive guide to the Irish Aran sweater. It includes a history of Aran knitting as well as a complete workshop in technique, pattern, and design.
Out-of-Print Book Trends:
Last year, in the wake of a massive stock market crash, we saw a rush on personal finance and banking policy books as people tried to understand what had taken place and how to recover. In 2010 manuals and do-it-yourself guides for sewing, home repair, and other productive pastimes have become more prevalent in this iteration of the BookFinder.com Report as people return to a more frugal lifestyle.
Basic Building Data: 10,000 Timeless Construction Facts by Don Graf
A compendium of tables and facts for architects, designers, homeowners, builders, and anyone with an interest in selecting the right materials, location, and layout for any size construction project; out-of-print since 1985.
Principles of Knitting: Methods and Techniques of Hand Knitting by June Hemmons Hiatt
Knitting circles have preached the usefulness of this book for years. Principles of Knitting goes into extreme detail on how and when to cast on, cast off, pick up stitches and anything else a personal knitting mentor would teach you.
The Lovely Reed: An Enthusiasts Guide to Building Bamboo Fly Rods by Jack Howell
Fly fishing is as popular as ever and this classic guide book is considered by many to be the bible for fishermen looking to build their own bamboo rods, which if you are buying artisan rods can cost upwards of $1000.
Top 100 most sought after out-of-print books in 2010
1 Madonna Sex
2 Ray Garton In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting
3 Harry Douglas Smith The Secret of Instantaneous Healing
4 Don Graf Basic Building Data: 10,000 Timeless Construction Facts
5 Nora Roberts Promise Me Tomorrow
6 Dennis Potter Ticket to Ride
7 Luigi Serafini Codex Seraphinianus
8 Allan D. Richter Eve of the End
9 Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) Rage
10 Rasiel Suarez ERIC : The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins
11 Beatrice Farwell Manet and the Nude : A Study of Iconography in the Second Empire
12 Anne Alexander The Pink Dress
13 Alice Starmore Aran Knitting
14 J Mordaunt Crook William Burges and the High Victorian Dream
15 Ferdinand Pecora Wall St. Under Oath; The Story of our Modern Money Changers
16 Desmond Young Ship Ashore; Adventures in Salvage
17 José Garcia Villa Footnote to Youth
18 Jean Larteguy The Centurions
19 June Hemmons Hiatt The Principles of Knitting: Methods and Techniques of Hand Knitting
20 Andrew Loomis Creative Illustration
21 Carl Sagan Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
22 Stephen King My Pretty Pony
23 Ben Bova The Star Conquerors
24 Todd S. Goodholme Goodholme's Domestic Cyclopedia of Practical Information
25 David Williams Second Sight
26 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter The Sixteenth Round: from Number 1 Contender to #45472
27 Associated Press The Torch is Passed: The Associated Press Story of The Death of a President
28 Kyle Onstott Mandingo
29 George Robert Elford Devil's Guard
30 Norman Mailer Marilyn: A Biography
31 Leo S. Figiel On Damascus Steel
32 Harry Twyford Peters Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People
33 Cameron Crowe Fast Times at Ridgemont High
34 David Freedman Brownian Motion and Diffusion
35 Charles M. Russell Good Medicine; The Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell
36 Ray Bradbury Dark Carnival
37 Derren Brown Pure Effect : Direct Mind Reading and Magical Artistry
38 Philip K. Dick Gather Yourselves Together
39 Elmer Keith Hell, I Was There!
40 Glen Cook She Is The Darkness
41 Anna Elizabeth Bennett Little Witch
42 Tom Lea The King Ranch
43 Jack Howell The Lovely Reed : An Enthusiasts Guide to Building Bamboo Fly Rods
44 Donald Hamilton The Big Country
45 Watt Piper The Bumper Book; a Harvest of Stories and Verses
46 Charles M. Garnier Legends of Ireland
47 Walt Kelly I Go Pogo
48 Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation
49 John Blaine The Magic Talisman
50 Paul Gallico Jennie
51 Laura Bannon The Wonderful Fashion Doll
52 Ferdinand Sauerbruch A Surgeon's Life
53 Nan Gilbert 365 Bedtime Stories
54 Salvador Dali, illustrator The Jerusalem Bible
55 Allen Drury Advise and Consent
56 C.S. Lewis The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
57 Kate Holmes Too Good to Be Threw : The Complete Operations Manual for Consignment Shops
58 Clancy Holling The Book of Indians
59 John Burnet Platonism
60 Christine Noble Govan The Pink Maple House
61 Paul Hoffman To Drop a Dime
62 R.P. Hunnicutt Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank
63 Madeleine L'Engle Ilsa
64 Fred A. Hinchey Vectors and Tensors for Engineers and Scientists
65 Jack S. Levy War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975
66 Marriner S. Eccles Beckoning Frontiers : Public and Personal Recollections
67 Ricky Jay Cards As Weapons
68 Charles Flato The Golden Book of the Civil War
69 Jan Wolkers Turkish Delight
70 John K. Hahn with Harold C. Mckenney Legally Sane
71 Arthur Guptill Norman Rockwell, Illustrator
72 F. Spencer Chapman Living Dangerously
73 William S. Baring-Gould, editor The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
74 Maurice O'Connor Drury The Danger of Words
75 A.E. Gutnov and A. Baburov The Ideal Communist City
76 John D. Green Birds of Britain
77 Richard P Hunnicutt Sherman. A History Of The American Medium Tank
78 Brian Shul Sled Driver: Flying the World's Fastest Jet
79 Marie Simmons Pancakes A to Z
80 Mark A. Baker Sons of a Trackless Forest : The Cumberland Long Hunters of the Eighteenth Century
81 Laura London The Windflower
82 James Virgil Howe The Modern Gunsmith
83 David Grafton The Sisters: Babe Mortimer Paley, Betsy Roosevelt Whitney, Minnie Astor Fosburgh
84 John Cage Notations
85 Josef Koudelka Gypsies: Photographs
86 Thomas Craven A Treasury of American Prints - A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithogrphas by the Foremost Living American Artists
87 Creighton Lee Calhoun Old Southern Apples
88 A.C.H. Smith Labyrinth
89 Henry W. Simon A Treasury of Grand Opera
90 J. R. Hartley Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days
91 Nicholas Guild The Blood Star
92 Charles Thomson The Septuagint Bible
93 Curtis Richards Halloween
94 Cahal B. Daly Morals, Law and Life. An Examination of the Book: The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law
95 Nicholas A. Brawer British Campaign Furniture: Elegance Under Canvas, 1740-1914
96 Mary and Vincent Price A Treasury of Great Recipes
97 Lynne Cheney Sisters
98 Catherine Anderson Comanche Magic
99 Alan Raven and John Roberts British Battleships of World War Two
100 Johnny Cash Man in Black
