Special Collections also houses the Inter-mountain West Collection, composed of hundreds of hard-to-find titles chronicling the history of southern Idaho and the surrounding area.

Over the years, the bookshop specialized in hand-selling to a high degree and in ferreting out hard-to-find titles for customers.

Booksellers who specialize in hard-to-find titles will be more heavily affected, Mr. Gordon said.

A Map A treasure trove of hard-to-find titles (most in French).

The business provided a wide range of hard-to-find titles to bookstores throughout the U.S. and the world.

Some manufacturers say that Funagain holds the lion's share of the online board game market because it reliably stocks the newest and most popular games, as well as the older, hard-to-find titles.

In 1965, he started a companion business, County Sales, to provide a mail-order retail outlet for his County Records releases and other hard-to-find titles.

"It's very rare," said Norman Scherer of Video Oyster, a store in Manhattan that specializes in hard-to-find titles.

The computer system, called Title Sleuth, also offers information on used, out-of-print and hard-to-find titles in many locations, both nationally and internationally.

Many hard-to-find titles and previews of student work are featured on the Schulz Library Blog.