Word: out-of-print
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...these publications are not in any greater demand. Nor are they, for the most part, more valuable than many, out-of-print books which undergraduates can take with them...
...these two reprints are received enthusiastically--as is expected--the Press will bring out more than a dozen other out-of-print texts edited by Rollins...
Only the Oxford University Press has consistently kept its outstanding scholarly work in print. A spokesman for Oxford in New York welcomed Harvard's announcement, and hoped that other university prosses would follow suit. He said that many out-of-print scholarly works are needed by new libraries...
...orchestration. The action of the book moves about the peeling off, in successive layers, of Waring's false colors. His reported death causes the commission of a quick biography. This reveals that Waring's books on Ceylon, Tibet, Spain, etc., have been largely lifted from forgotten, out-of-print books by genuine travelers. He had never been anywhere farther flung than a pension on the French Riviera. His name was sometimes Robinson, but as a last resort, Pimley. Then it transpires that even his death was phony. He is very much alive, a slightly hangdog young minor spiv...
Less expensive than hard-covers, paperbacks have cut into the volume of sales of first editions, but old-line publishers have used royalties from reprint rights as a source of new income. With no new investment, out-of-print books have yielded "found money" to the hardcover publisher. But not all paperbacks are reprints. Under a joint agreement, Houghton-Mifflin and Ballantine Books simultaneously release new books in both hard and soft covers...