out-of-print

American  

[out-uhv-print] / ˈaʊt əvˈprɪnt /

adjective

1. being no longer published; no longer printed or reprinted.

   a bookstore specializing in out-of-print books.

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noun

1. a book, pamphlet, etc., that is no longer published.

out of print Idioms  

1. see under in print; also see go out, def. 6.

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Etymology

Origin of out-of-print

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

I found a healthy alternative in Todd Grimson’s vampire novel, “Stainless,” an out-of-print book from 1996 that was republished this year.

From The Wall Street Journal

An out-of-print tome sits beside a scribbled screenplay.

From Los Angeles Times

Boggs discovered him when he came across an out-of-print children’s book called “Little Man, Little Man,” a collaboration between Cazac and Baldwin that prompted Boggs’ search.

From Los Angeles Times

Naidorf’s deep humanity, reflected in the title of his now out-of-print 2018 memoir, “More Humane: An Architectural Memoir,” extended to all living things, including doting on his 13-year-old cat, Ziggy Starburst, with whom he shared a birthday — and even small creatures in distress, like a dying bee that he found on his kitchen floor that he carried outside to die, as he put it, “with dignity in nature,” and a snail with a broken shell in his yard that he gently tended to.

From Los Angeles Times

The event that both resurrected and elevated The Raincoats, almost a decade after they had stopped making music together, was when Kurt Cobain decided to utilize his meteoric fame and get their hard-to-find, out-of-print records reissued on a subsidiary of his own major record label.

From Salon