Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits

I’ve written my first email to the Princeton Press concerning Kierkegaard’s out-of-print Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. It’s a no go.  Meanwhile you can still obtain it for $2,200 at the Barnes and Noble used books site from the seller ‘Brightbooks.net.’  The book is approximately 12 years old and originally sold in hardback for $45.00. And people ask if Kierkegaard is valuable…

I wrote:

Please re-print or re-issue the following item... It is the last of the

series I need to collect. I would very much like to have a copy for my own

personal studies...

Kierkegaard's Writings, XV:

Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits

Soren Kierkegaard

Edited and translated, with introduction and notes, by Howard V. Hong and

Edna H. Hong

Cloth | 1993 | This book is out of print | ISBN: 0-691-03274-2 468 pp.

Reply:

timothy_wilkins@pupress.princeton.edu

Dear (Kierkegaardian),

I am sorry to say that I don't have definite news for you right now.  We are experimenting with bringing some of our out of print titles back into print, but this isn't in our initial test batch.  We hope to bring it back into print, but we do not have a target date set.

Thank you for your interest, and I wish I had more definite and better news.

Tim Wilkins

Princeton University Press