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EvaH
08-26-2011, 06:50 PM
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2011/08/what-are-the-100-most-wanted-out-of-print-books/1

BookFinder.com has just released its list of the 100 most sought-after out-of-print books in America -- and you might be surprised by the findings.
For instance, none other than Madonna tops this year's list with her book Sex. Stephen King occupies two places in the top five. A copy of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High comes in at No. 16, and Johnny Cash's Man in Black lands at No. 7.

1. Madonna, Sex
2. Nora Roberts, Promise Me Tomorrow
3. Stephen King (as Richard Bachman), Rage
4. Stephen King, My Pretty Pony
5. Ray Garton, In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting
6. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus
7. Johnny Cash, Man in Black
8. Norman Mailer, Marilyn: A Biography
9. H. Henry Thomas, Arithmetic Progress Papers
10. Kyle Onstott, Mandingo

Garrell
08-26-2011, 07:50 PM
Interesting...

Brainslinger
08-27-2011, 03:28 AM
4. Stephen King, My Pretty Pony

That's a new one on me!

Merlin1958
08-27-2011, 05:52 PM
4. Stephen King, My Pretty Pony

That's a new one on me!

Really? If I recall, it was especially done for "The Whitney Museum" as a one-shot deal. Very limited Edition and never re-printed (?) anywhere.

jhanic
08-28-2011, 03:48 AM
There was also the 15000 copy edition issued by Knopf in a slipcase.

John

sgc1999
08-28-2011, 05:29 AM
These are just the most sought after.

Brainslinger
08-28-2011, 07:55 AM
4. Stephen King, My Pretty Pony

That's a new one on me!

Really? If I recall, it was especially done for "The Whitney Museum" as a one-shot deal. Very limited Edition and never re-printed (?) anywhere.

Please don't get me wrong, I wasn't questioning the fact he wrote it. I believe them, I just meant this is the first time I'd come across it. Surprise not scepticism.

Merlin1958
08-28-2011, 06:57 PM
There was also the 15000 copy edition issued by Knopf in a slipcase.

John

Sorry John, as usual I defer to the expert, Howver, even so for King that is a somewhat "Limited" edition.

Bev Vincent
08-29-2011, 02:15 AM
I might agree, except it was an edition that you could buy in stores. That's how I got mine, at B. Dalton's or some place like that.

pathoftheturtle
08-29-2011, 04:18 AM
I enjoyed the story in Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

mae
08-29-2011, 04:20 AM
I'm surprised that My Little Pony is a top sought-after King book. I would think it would be something more substantial, like a first edition of one of his first novels, or The Gunslinger.

pathoftheturtle
08-29-2011, 04:28 AM
My Little Pony:lol:

"My Pretty Pony" has great color, and deep observations, though he didn't really develop it. Not that such matters actually much affect marketability. I'm not surprised, myself: it usually is trivia that drives collectors.

mae
08-29-2011, 06:04 AM
Wow, what a weird slip. :doh:

jhanic
08-29-2011, 06:10 AM
"My Pretty Pony" was initially part of an unpublished novel (Machine's Way?) that King was writing. If I remember correctly, it was about George Stark (remember him from The Dark Half?) who was waiting somewhere so that he could perform a hit, remembering some of his childhood.

John

Brainslinger
08-31-2011, 04:27 AM
I enjoyed the story in Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

..which means I must have read it after all...