Keep Circulating The Tapes / Literature Rescued

• Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis. An e-book edition exists but if you want a print copy, go to Amazon. Kingsley Amis' other Bond works, the James Bond Dossier and The Book of Bond, are completely out of print, but if you want the former, it's found on Anna's Archive, and for the latter's, it's found on the Internet Archive.
• For a long time Sir Terry Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was out of print and almost impossible to find secondhand due to a tiny original print run. However, eventually, his publishers got so fed up with having to tell people there was no demand for it that it was reissued. Technically, it was reissued as a new Author's Cut, since Pratchett wanted to fix a lot about the novel. So you can read the special edition, but good luck finding the original.
• Probably one of the oldest and most obscure examples is the story of Michael Servetus's heretical text Christianismi Restitutio (Latin for "The Restoration of Christianity"). Since Servetus was more radical than even most Protestants of the time (for example, he rejected both the Trinity and infant baptism), Catholics and Protestants alike denounced and suppressed him and his works. John Calvin led a huge effort to destroy all copies of Servetus's books and eventually had Servetus burned at the stake on a pile of copies of ''Christianismi Restitutio'', with the last known copy of the book bound to his leg. Only three first-edition copies still exist; for nearly half a millennium, these copies have passed from person to person throughout Europe. But there are many later copies, and the book is still in print (you can find it on Amazon.com).
• The 1991 book Duck in a Raincoat by Maura Curley, a damning unauthorized biography of Elan School founder and Maine gubernatorial candidate Joseph Ricci, saw a low print run during its initial publication, and by the late 1990s was fairly rare (as recounted in Joe vs. Elan School). That said, an updated second edition was eventually released for the Kindle in 2012, a year after Elan School's closure and eleven years after Ricci's death.
• Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute has previously not been released in the States because of issues with the publishers. But as of 2012 it is scheduled to be released sometime in 2013.
• The Myth-O-Mania books went out of print in the mid-2000s, but re-appeared in 2011 with a different publisher, updated covers, and even some new stories.
• While many English versions of Jules Verne's more obscure books are only available in their original century-old prints, one such book, Sans dessus dessous (literally "Topsy-Turvy") was retranslated and republished in 2012 as The Earth Turned Upside Down. As an added bonus, the new translation is much better than the original English one, which, as with other English versions of Verne's books from the time, was reviled by scholars and the knowledgeable public for its low quality.
• After several small scale releases that did nothing to alleviate the books incredible rarity, in 2015, there was finally a proper public paperback release of Thomas Ligotti's "Songs of a Dead Dreamer".
• For over a century, James Scarth Gale's account as a missionary in early 20th century Korea, The Vanguard: A Tale of Korea, was only available in its original 1900s printing. But in 2013, a Korean publisher created a modernized and bilingual (Korean and English) edition for sale in Christian bookstores, making this almost forgotten and historically important work available for purchase again.
• Villains by Necessity a 1995 fantasy book by Eve Forward, where a group of left-over villains have to save the world from the forces of Good, was out of print for some time, and still is in hardcover and softcover forms, but it has been released on Kindle and Audible formats. That being said, there is a work with the same name by Sara Woods, which is more of a crime story - make sure to get the right one when ordering.
• Westwind, an early techno thriller by Rebus author Ian Rankin, slipped out more-or-less unnoticed in 1991 and was soon out of print — and due to its combination of Early-Installment Weirdness (Rankin hadn't quite found his style at the time), Creator's Oddball and Executive Meddling (it noticeably lacks Rankin's usual dark humour because his editors insisted on him taking all the jokes out), it became an entirely dismissed work for the author. Eventually he dropped it from his official bibliography altogether. He finally came round to it after a fan enthused about it on Twitter, and it was reissued with minor revisions in 2019.
• Michael Rosen owes his status as a YouTube Poop star due to averting this trope. His book The Hypnotiser contains some of his best-known and well-loved stories (including "Hot Food", "Babysitter", "Horrible", "The Michael Rosen Rap", and many others), but it went out of print, and copies became extremely difficult to find secondhand. Unable to get it reprinted, Michael decided to film himself reading its stories to better preserve them, and the rest is history.
• In 2021, K. A. Applegate and Michael Grant announced that they had regained the rights to their out-of-print series Remnants and Everworld, and will be making them available for digital and print-on-demand purchase (with all-new illustrations and covers). Audiobooks for their series Animorphs have also been published, though not the companion Megamorphs and Chronicles books.
• All Gor books went out of print in 1989 because DAW Books ceased publishing them. E-Reads began printing the books again in 2001, and new entries in the series began being published as well.

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