Most Wanted Out-of-Print Books
by Beth Carswell
Our friends at BookFinder.com are definitely in-the-know when it comes to sought after books. Through their powerful search engine, they keep track of what titles are in demand, compiling a comprehensive look at the out-of-print titles most searched for.
They release an annual report of their findings, revealing what dusty volumes on our shelves might be somebody else's treasure. This year's report comprises searches made from July 2008 to June 2009, and is clearly heavily influenced by the economy. There are also some familiar titles, including Sex by Madonna and Codex Seraphinianus by Italian artist Luigi Serafini.
BookFinder.com's Top 10 Most Wanted Out-Of-Print Book Lists:
Arts & Music
- Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People
Harry Twyford Peters - Sex
Madonna - Picturesque America or The Land We Live In
William Cullen Bryant - A Treasury of American Prints
Thomas Craven, editor - The Jerusalem Bible
Salvador Dali, illustrator - Bottoms Up
Ted Saucier - I Go Pogo
Walt Kelly - A Way of Seeing
Helen Levitt - A Treasury of Grand Opera
Henry W. Simon - Birds of Britain
John D. Green
Biography
- And I'd Do It Again
Aimee Crocker - Good Medicine; The Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell
Charles M. Russell - Marilyn: A Biography
Norman Mailer - Ship Ashore; Adventures in Salvage
Desmond Young - The Sixteenth Round: from Number 1 Contender to #45472
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - Cop Without a Badge: The Extraordinary Undercover Life of Kevin Maher
Charles Kipps - Norman Rockwell, Illustrator
Arthur Guptill - Up For Air; Diving for a Living
Frank Meier - Hell, I Was There!
Elmer Keith - Franz Schreker, 1878-1934: A Cultural Biography
Christopher Hailey
Children's
- The Pink Dress
Anne Alexander - The Pink Maple House
Christine Noble Govan - The Book of Indians
Holling Clancy Holling - The Wonderful Fashion Doll
Laura Bannon - The Bumper Book; a Harvest of Stories and Verses
Watt Piper - The Book of Cowboys
Holling Clancy Holling - Little Witch
Anna Elizabeth Bennett - Sawdust in His Shoes
Eloise Jarvis McGraw - Ilsa
Madeleine L'Engle - 365 Bedtime Stories
Nan Gilbert
Crafts, Hobbies & How-To
- Carpentry for Beginners: How to Use Tools, Basic Joints, Workshop Practice, Designs for Things to Make
Charles Harold Hayward - The Principles of Knitting: Methods and Techniques of Hand Knitting
June Hemmins Hiatt - Aran Knitting
Alice Starmore - Old Southern Apples
Creighton Lee Calhoun - A Treasury of Great Recipes
Mary and Vincent Price - Creative Illustration
Andrew Loomis - The Personality of a House: The Blue Book of Home Charm
Emily Post - Woodwork Joints
Charles Hayward - Interior Alchemy: Secrets to Creating Expressive Ambience
Rebecca Purcell - Too Good to be Threw: The Complete Operations Manual for Consignment Shops
Kate Holmes
Fiction and Literature
- Ticket to Ride
Dennis Potter - Promise Me Tomorrow
Nora Roberts - The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion
Hyacinthe Phypps & Edward Gorey - One Hundred and One Famous Poems
Roy Jay Cook - The Big Country
Donald Hamilton - The Sparkling One
Susan Mallery - Mandingo
Kyle Onstott - The Centurions
Jean Lartéguy - Sisters
Lynne Cheney - Indigo Blue
Catherine Anderson
History
- Folklore of Highland County
Violet Morgan - A Survey of the History of Israel
Eliot Porter - The King Ranch
Tom Lea - The Torch is Passed: The Associated Press Story of The Death of a President
Associated Press - Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank
R.P. Hunnicutt - Indian Blood
Evelyn Guard Olsen - The Nations At War - A Current History
Willis J. Abbot - The Olive Branch, or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic
Mathew Carey - The Founding of American Colleges and Universities before the Civil War, with Particular Reference to the Religious Influences Bearing upon the College Movement
Donald George Tewksbury - Like a Prairie Fire: A History of the Assemblies of God in Oklahoma
Bob Burke
Mysteries and Thrillers
- Legally Sane
John K. Hahn with Harold C. McKenney - To Drop a Dime
Paul Hoffman - When Money Grew on Trees
David Mac - The Magic Talisman
John Blaine - Border Adventure
James W. English - The Murderer's Tale
Margaret Frazer - The Annotated Sherlock Holmes
William S. Baring-Gould, editor - Harvey and Lee: How the CIA framed Oswald
John Armstrong - Smith County Justice
David Ellsworth - Dinner at Antoine's
Frances Parkinson Keyes
Popular Science & Technology
- Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
Carl Sagan - The Rifleman's Rifle Winchester's Model 70, 1936-1963
Roger C. Rule - Volcanic Plumes
R.S.J. Sparkes, et al - The Rifle in America
Philip Sharpe - Library of Health: Complete Guide to Prevention and Cure of Disease
B. Frank Scholl - Buchan's Domestic Medicine: Or The Family Physician
William Buchan - The Act of Creation
Arthur Koestler - The Butterfly Book
W.J. Holland - The Modern Gunsmith
James Virgil Howe - Theology for Today
Elmer L. Towns
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
- Masques
Patricia Briggs - Rage
Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) - She Is The Darkness: Book Two of Glittering Stone
Glenn Cook - The Watchmen Sourcebook
Ray Winninger - The Star Conquerors
Ben Bova - Dark Carnival
Ray Bradbury - Codex Seraphinianus
Luigi Serafini - No Blade of Grass
John Christopher - My Pretty Pony
Stephen King - The Ghost of Opalina; or Nine Lives
Peggy Bacon
Society and Culture
- In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting
Ray Garton - Wall St. Under Oath; The Story of our Modern Money Changers
Ferdinand Pecora - Secrets of the Federal Reserve: The London Connection
Eustace Mullins - The Energy Non-Crisis
Lindsey Williams - The World Order: Our Secret Rulers
Eustace Mullins - The Future of Money
Bernard Lietaer - Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Cameron Crowe - Cult and Conscience: The Asham and the Priestly Doctrine of Repentance
Jacob Milgrom - Eve of the End
Allan D. Richter - White Pillars The Architecture of the South
J. Frazer Smith
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