The following is an alphabetical résumé of most of the books mentioned in this anthology. The editors offer it as a scavenger-hunt list for haunters of used bookstores and Internet sleuths. Citations of books are listed for their American editions if such editions exist. Otherwise, citations are for most recent editions. Interested readers are invited to drop in to www.brickmag.com from time to time to see if any reissues have been published; Brick will keep such a list current and update it as new reissues come to light. Just click on “Lost Classics” once you get to our home page.
OP=Out of print
IP=In print and available either in bookstores or by special order OS=Publisher is out of stock
Abeysekara, Tissa. Bringing Tony Home. Sri Lanka: Rajagiriya, 1988. ISBN 955-96434-0-1. IP
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. The Essential Akutagawa: Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheels, A Fool’s Life and Other Short Fiction. Edited by Seiji M. Lippit and with an introduction by Jorge Luis Borges. New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1999. ISBN 1-568-86061-7. IP
Andrews, Terry. The Story of Harold. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. New York: Avon Books, 1980. OP
Anonymous. Down and Out in the Woods: An Airman’s Guide to Survival in the Bush. No publication data available at time of printing.
Aragon, Louis. Treatise on Style. Translated and with an introduction by Alyson Waters. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991. ISBN 0-803-21024-8. IP
Bachmann, Ingeborg. Malina. Translated by Philip Boehm. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1999. ISBN 0-841-91189-4. IP
Barker, George. The Dead Seagull. London: The SoHo Book
Company, 1985. ISBN 0-948-16600-2. IP
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education. New York:
Penguin Books, 1990. OP
Beebe, William. Jungle Peace. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt.
New York: The Modern Library, 1925. OP
Bennett, Arnold. The Old Wives’ Tale. Introduction by Francine Prose. New York: The Modern Library, 2000. ISBN 0-375-75490-3. IP. There is also a Penguin edition in print. New York, 1991. ISBN 0-140-18255-1.
Bernhard, Thomas. Frost. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1972. OP
Brown, Palmer. Beyond the Pawpaw Trees. New York: Harper, 1954. OP
Bulgakov, Mikhail. Life of Monsieur de Molière. Translated by Mirra Ginsburg. New York: New Directions, 1986. ISBN 0-811-20956-3. OS
Bullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1962. OP
_____. The Log of a Sea-Waif. Appleton, Wisc.: Appleton Papers, 1899. OP
Collis, Maurice. Quest for Sita. Oakville, Ontario: Capricorn Books, 1965. OP
Cowper, Richard. The Twilight of Briareus. New York: The John Day Company, 1974. OP
Dermout, Maria. The Ten Thousand Things. New York: Vintage Books, 1984. OP
Desani, G. V. All About H. Hatterr. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. New Paltz, N.Y.: McPherson, 1986. OP
Dhuoda. Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman’s Counsel for Her Son. Translated by Carol Neel. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999. ISBN 0-813-20938-2. IP. Also published as Liber Manualis: Handbook for Her Warrior Son. Translated by Marcelle Thiébaux. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-521-40019-8. IP
Dorn, Edward. By the Sound. Santa Rosa, Calif.: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. ISBN 0-876-85840-X. IP
Drew, Wayland. The Wabeno Feast. Toronto: House of Anansi, 1973. OP
Dumas, Henry Lee. Play Ebony Play Ivory. Edited by Eugene B. Redmond. New York: Random House, 1974. OP
Éluard, Paul. Capital of Pain. Translated by Richard M. Weisman. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1973. OP
Ford, Ford Madox. The Good Soldier. New York: Penguin USA, 1999. ISBN 0-140-28331-5. IP
Gao, Yu-pao. I Want to Go to School. The People’s Publishing House of China. No publication data available at time of printing.
Gass, William. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry. Boston: David R. Godine, 1991. ISBN 0-879-23237-4. OS
Golding, William. William Golding: Three Novels. New York: MJF Books, 1997. ISBN 1-567-31220-9. IP
Goytisolo, Juan. Forbidden Territory: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo, 1931–1956. Translated by Peter Bush. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989. OP
Greene, Barbara. Too Late to Turn Back. Introduction by Paul Theroux. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. OP
Hale, Lucretia P. The Peterkin Papers. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994. ISBN 0-312-11382-X. IP
Hawley, Richard A. The Headmaster’s Papers. Middlebury, Vt.: Paul S. Erikson, 1992. ISBN 0-839-73192-2. IP
Hay, Phyllis. The Journey of the Stamp Animals. Illustrated by Rosamund Stokes. Melbourne: Georgian House, 1948. OP
Hearn, Lafcadio. Some Chinese Ghosts. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Wildside Press, 1999. ISBN 1-587-15000-X. IP
Hilton, James. Lost Horizon. New York: Pocket Books, 1991. ISBN 0-671-66427-1. IP. William Morrow published a hardcover edition in 1996. ISBN 0-688-14656-2. IP Hine, Reginald. Confessions of an Un-common Attorney. Holmes Beach, Fla.: Gaunt, 1996. IP
Hoban, Russell. The Mouse and His Child. New York: Dell Yearling Books, 1990. ISBN 0-380-00910-2. IP. There is another edition due Sept. 2001 from Arthur Levine. ISBN 0-439-09826-2.
Housman, A. E. The Name and Nature of Poetry. Edited by John Carter. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1989. ISBN 0-941-53361-1. IP
Hrabal, Bohumil. I Served the King of England. New York: Vintage, 1990. ISBN 0-679-72786-8. IP
Hudson, W. H. Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life. Introduction by Stephen J. Bodio. New York: Lyons & Burford Publishers, 1997. ISBN 1-558-21546-8. IP
Jefferies, Richard. The Amateur Poacher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. OP
The Junior Classics: The Young Folks’ Shelf of Books. Series published by Crowell-Collier. OP
Kent, Rockwell. N by E. Wesleyan University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-819-55292-5. IP
Kipling, Rudyard. The Five Nations. New York: Doubleday, 1914. OP
Lanham, Url. The Fishes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. OP
Laxness, Halldor. The Fish Can Sing. London: Harvill Press, 2000. ISBN 1-860-46687-7. IP
Lewis, Alun. Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets. New York: Macmillan, 1945. OP
Levine, Philip. They Feed They Lion. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. ISBN 0-375-70629-1. IP
Levy, G. R. The Gate of Horn. London: Faber & Faber, 1948. OP
Mac Liammoir, Micheal. Put Money in Thy Purse: The Filming of Orson Welles’ Othello. London: Methuen, 1976. OP
McAllister, Pam, ed. Reweaving the Web of Life. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1982. OP
McKay, Don. Lependu. Coldstream, Ontario: Nairn Publishing House, 1978. OP
Metcalf, Paul. Genoa. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. ISBN 0-826-31300-0. IP
Moskoyov, Alex. The Bells of Russia. Published under the name Alexander Morskoi by B. Humphries, Boston, in 1947. OP
Nehru, Jawaharlal. Glimpses of World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Niedecker, Lorine. The Granite Pail. Edited by Cid Corman. Frankfort, Ky.: Gnomon Press, 1996. ISBN 0-917-78861-3. IP
Noyes, Alfred. “The Highwayman.” Illustrated by Charles Keeping. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-192-72370-7. IP
O’Brien, Flann. The Third Policeman. Norman, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1999. ISBN 1-564-78214-X. IP
Prowse, D. W. A History of Newfoundland. New York: Macmillan, 1895. OP
Rattray, David. How I Became One of the Invisible. New York: Semiotext(e), 1992. ISBN 0-936-75698-5. IP
Rexroth, Kenneth. Classics Revisited. New York: New Directions, 1986. ISBN 0-811-20987-3. IP
Serafini, Luigi. Codex Seraphinianus. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983. OP
Smiley, Jane. The Greenlanders. New York: Fawcett Books, 1996. ISBN 0-449-91089-X. IP
Söderberg, Hjalmar. Doctor Glas. Translated by Paul Britten Austin. Boston: Little Brown, 1963. OP
Stendhal, The Life of Rossini. Translated by Richard N. Coe. New York: Riverrun Press, 1985. OP
_____. The Private Diaries of Stendhal. Edited and translated by Robert Sage. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954. OP
Taylor, Kressman. Address Unknown. Cincinnati: Story Press, 1995. OP
Thomas, Aaron. The Newfoundland Journal of Aaron Thomas, 1794. Don Mills, Ontario: Longmans Canada, 1968. OP
Thompson, D’Arcy Wentworth. On Growth and Form. New York: Dover Publications, 1992. ISBN 0-486-67135-6. IP
Thomsen, Moritz. The Saddest Pleasure. St. Paul, Minn.: Gray-wolf Press, 1990. ISBN 1-555-97124-5. OS
Wallant, Edward Lewis. The Tenants of Moonbloom. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. OP
Wescott, Glenway. The Pilgrim Hawk. New York: The New York Review of Books, 2001. ISBN 0-940-32256-0. IP
White, James. The Salt Ecstasies. Port Townsend, Wash.: Graywolf Press, 1981. ISBN 0-915-30831-2. IP
Willingham, Calder. Geraldine Bradshaw. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1964. OP
Wright, Austin Tappan. Islandia. Lightyear Press, 1996. ISBN 0-899-68385-1. IP