out-of-print

[out-uhv-print]

adjective

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

   a bookstore specializing in out-of-print books.

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of out of print¹

First recorded in 1665–75

Idioms and Phrases

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

Example Sentences

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

“In the beginning, the novel had nothing to do with perfume, I just liked the title — which I jacked from a 1950s out-of-print lesbian pulp novel,” she says, “but then I started collecting all this niche perfume knowledge and I knew I had to put it into the book. Once the book came out, I had all these new ‘fraghead’ followers, some of whom have become friends and my perfume obsession just continued.”

From Los Angeles Times

The session yielded “This Close to You,” a long out-of-print album originally released in 1977, which will hit streaming services on Friday.

From New York Times