BookFinder.com Out-of-Print & In Demand Report 2012

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The books we see for sale at a local chain bookstore or purchase new online are a small fraction of the entirety of human print culture.  In fact, 98 to 99% of all books ever published are now out of print. These are the books featured in the BookFinder.com Report.

The BookFinder.com Report is issued every fall, and the 2012 edition marks the 10th anniversary of our tracking the most sought after out-of-print books in America.

Topping our anniversary list are the "big three" of out-of-print books which perennially find their way onto the BookFinder.com Report: Sex by Madonna, Rage by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), and Promise Me Tomorrow by Nora Roberts.  This year's list also marks the graduation of Marilyn by Norman Mailer, which after appearing in four straight Reports was finallyreprinted by Taschen last December.

Some of the out-of-print titles new to the BookFinder.com Report include:

Pure, White and Deadly ; the Problem of Sugar by John Yudkin
First published in 1972, Professor Yudkin’s book outlines his research showing that sugar and refined sweeteners are closely associated with heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The book has shot back into demand after being highly praised in Robert Lustig’s lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” which enjoyed YouTube viral success.  Yudkin’s book was reprinted in the UK in 2012 but remains out-of-print in the U.S.

Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles by Linda Dawson
This juvenile fiction work has been out-of-print in America since 1979. It features a young girl who has millions of hot-water bottles and uses them to douse a blaze when her house catches fire. She receives a puppy for her efforts.

Big League Sales Closing Techniques by Les Dane
Les Dane has published several guides to sales techniques,  including this now out-of-print 1971 title. The guide reviews common scenarios found in sales, teaching would-be salesmen fundamental techniques for closing a deal.

Country Landscapes in Watercolor by John Blockley
Blockley demonstrates techniques of landscape and watercolor in this book which has been out-of-print since 1982.

Top 100 most sought after out-of-print books in 2012

1	Madonna	Sex
2	Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)	Rage
3	Nora Roberts	Promise me Tomorrow
4	Stephen King	My Pretty Pony
5	John Yudkin	Pure, White and Deadly; the Problem of Sugar
6	Kyle Onstott	Mandingo
7	Johnny Cash	Man in Black
8	Luigi Serafini	Codex Seraphinianus
9	Nan Gilbert	365 Bedtime Stories
10	Alice Starmore	Tudor Roses

11	Cameron Crowe	Fast Times at Ridgemont High
12	Mary and Vincent Price	A Treasury of Great Recipes
13	Ray Bradbury	Dark Carnival
14	Salvador Dali, illustrator	The Jerusalem Bible
15	Lynne Cheney	Sisters
16	H.Henry Thomas	Arithmetic Progress Papers
17	Janet Woods	Beyond the Plough
18	A.C.H. Smith	Labyrinth: A Novel
19	Ray Garton	In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting
20	Walt Kelly	I Go Pogo

21	Linda Dawson & Terry Furchgott	Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles
22	Allen Drury	Advise and Consent
23	Jean Larteguy	The Centurions
24	J.R. Hartley	Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days
25	Anna Elizabeth Bennett	Little Witch
26	W. Clawson	Collector's Guide to Colt .45 Service Pistols: models of 1911 and 1911a1 from 1911 to the end of production in 1945 complete military identification, including all contractors
27	Jaś Elsner	Reflections of Nero : culture, history & representation
28	C.S. Lewis	The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
29	Robert Nathan	The Bishop's Wife
30	Madeleine L'Engle	Ilsa

31	Sarah Bradford	Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952
32	Carl Sagan	Murmurs of Earth
33	Ricky Jay	Cards As Weapons
34	Alan Raven and John Roberts	British Battleships of World War Two: The Development and Technical History of the Royal Navy's Battleships and Battlecruisers from 1911 to 1946
35	Clancy Holling	Book of Indians
36	Curtis Richards	Halloween
37	Jay Cronley	Good Vibes
38	Charles Flato	The Golden Book of the Civil War
39	Dennis Potter	Ticket to Ride
40	Elmer Keith	Hell, I Was There

41	Ernest Cole	House of Bondage
42	Anne Alexander	The Pink Dress
43	Donald Hamilton	The Big Country
44	R.P. Hunnicutt	Stuart: A History of the American Light Tank
45	Les Dane	Big League Sales Closing Techniques
46	David Whitford	A Payroll to Meet: A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU
47	Kate Holmes	Too Good to be Threw
48	Thomas Craven	A Treasury of American Prints - A Selection of One Hundred Etchings and Lithogrphas by the Foremost Living American Artists
49	Paul Hoffman	To Drop a Dime
50	John Blockley	Country Landscapes in Watercolor

51	Mary Konior	Crochet lace : an illustrated guide to making crochet lace fabrics
52	Cecil Beaton	The Glass of Fashion
53	Arthur Koestler	The Act of Creation
54	Ronald Welch	Bowman of Crecy
55	Laura London	The Windflower
56	Robert Nathan	The Bishop's Wife
57	Tom Lea	The King Ranch
58	Milt Tenopir	The assembly line
59	Edward Matunas	Practical Gunsmithing
60	W Somerset Maugham	Tellers of Tales: 100 short stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany

61	Allan D Richter	Eve of the end
62	Joseph Zbukvic	Mastering Atmosphere and Mood in Watercolor: the critical ingredients that turn paintings into art
63	Ben Bova	The Star Conquerors
64	David Williams	Second Sight
65	John Harris	Covenant with death
66	Nicholas Guild	The Blood Star
67	Truda Williams McCoy; Leonard Roberts	McCoys: their story as told to the author by eye witnesses and descendants
68	John Blaine	The Magic Talisman
69	Barbara Newhall Follett	The House Without Windows
70	David Wilkerson	The Vision and Beyond, prophecies fulfilled and still to come

71	Marie Simmons	Pancakes A to Z
72	Glen Cook	She Is The Darkness
73	Martin Caidin	Cyborg
74	Harry Twyford Peters	Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People
75	Laura Bannon	The Wonderful Fashion Doll
76	Paul Gallico	Jennie (or The Abandoned)
77	Watt Piper	The Bumper Book; a Harvest of Stories and Verses
78	James Virgil Howe	The Modern Gunsmith : a guide for the amateur and professional gunsmith in the design and construction of firearms, with practical suggestions for all who like guns
79	Kyle Onstott	DRUM
80	John D. Green	Birds of Britain

81	Polan Banks	Carriage Entrance
82	Charles Thomson	The Septuagint Bible
83	Don Graf	Basic Building Data: 10,000 Timeless Construction Facts
84	John Cage	Notations
85	Ruth Orbach	Apple Pigs
86	Alexei Gutnov	The Ideal Communist City
87	J. Jason Grant	Coal
88	Henry W. Simon	A Treasury of Grand Opera
89	Jack S. Levy	War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975
90	Doyle C. Barnes	Our Journey in the Life

91	Peter Newmark	Approaches to translation
92	Kyle Onstott & Lance Homer	The Black Sun
93	Jan Wolkers	Turkish Delight
94	Maisie Mosco	Almonds and Raisins
95	John Thomas Edson	Alvin Fog, Texas ranger
96	Hugh Woosley	Basic medical laboratory subjects
97	Hansjurgen Fettig	Hand and rod puppets : a handbook of technique
98	Craig Shaw Gardner	The Lost Boys
99	Norman Rockwell	102 favorite paintings
100	William Stuart Long	The Imperialists