I always like hearing about out of print books coming back into print. Last week the New York Times Book Review highlighted The Book of Norse Myths, by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, which was republished by The New York Review of Books Classics and Collections imprint. I also liked this story about Traviata Books.

I’ve never understood why some books go out of print. For a period of time the second book in Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark trilogy, The Kestrel, was out of print. I remember looking for it everywhere and it finally came back into print a few years ago. One of my “lost” books is A.A. Milne’s Once On a Time, which I lent to someone I was in a singing group with in high school and I never got back. Now I think twice before lending books to tenors. One of these days I’ll order another copy from Alibris.