What are some of the best out-of-print books you've come across?

Question

i.e. out of print at the time you found them

"Song of fire" anyone.

Answer 1

A dear friend and neighbor, an author of some renown and substantial commercial success passed about a year ago, and I got to pick some out of her extensive library.

I got "Russian Life in Town and Country," by Francis H. E. Palmer, c. May, 1901, Putnam;

"Saddle Bag and Spinning Wheel: Being the Civil War Letters of George W. Peddy, M.D., Surgeon, 56th Georgia Volunteer Regiment, C.S.A. and his wife Kate Featherstone Peddy," George Peddy Cuttino, ed., c. 1981, Mercer University Press (warmly inscribed by the editor);

"The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama," by Margaret Anne Barnes, c 1998, Mercer University Press;

The annual "The Metropolitan Opera Guide," by Mary Ellis Peltz and Robert Lawrence, c. 1939 (7th, 1947 edition); and

"A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South," B.A. Botkin, ed., c. 1949, Crown (autographed by editor).

Beautiful books. You can't get these anywhere now.