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out of print, adj. phr.
[See print n. 7 b.]
Of a book: no longer available from the publisher; also used with reference to gramophone records. Also as n.
Written with hyphens when used attrib.
1674[see print n. 7 b]. 1800Lofft in R. Bloomfield Farmer's Boy (ed. 3) 128 (Appendix), I am happy to be stopt here, by so good a cause as the urgency of the Publishers to complete a Third Edition; they informing me that the second is entirely out of print. 1895[see print n. 7 b]. 1896N. & Q. 25 Apr. Advt., All out-of-print books speedily procured. 1927R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. p. vi, I have..been repeatedly asked to reissue the pamphlet (now out of print). 1938New Statesman 13 Aug. 262/1 There are two admirable lieder records. Karl Schmitt-Walker..sings..two of the very best of Hugo Wolf's songs..the latter only available in the out-of-print Gerhardt album of Wolf. 1950John o' London's Weekly 7 July 398/3 Every reader has got his own favourites among the out-of-print. 1965Amer. N. & Q. Oct. 24/1 New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare—What is the status of in- and out-of-print volumes in the set? 1973L. Snelling Heresy i. 12 Some out-of-print unknown... Why, by the way, is he unknown and out of print? 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 956/6 (Advt.), Any American books, new or out-of-print. 1977Gramophone Sept. 448/2 (Advt.), We still have secondhand LP and 78 Departments where many unusual and out of print records may be found. |