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It's excellent news that the LMS are to re-publish Cassels & Fröhlich. There are many other excellent mathematics books which are just about impossible (or at least very expensive) to get hold of, though this problem seems to be getting a bit better with some texts being printed on demand.

Which book(s) would you most like to see re-published?

A couple of comments:

Perhaps nobody under 30 actually reads real books made from trees any more, but personally I find it more convenient to refer to a paper copy, to the extent that I will happily buy a copy of something which is available free on-line (like SGA 1 and 2, or Milne's Arithmetic Duality Theorems).

And of course there can be legal issues with re-publishing works - EGA & SGA seem to be a case in point at the moment.

Here are two to start off with:

Manin, Cubic forms
Grothendieck et al., Dix exposés sur la cohomologie des schémas

(not including Cassels & Fröhlich because I picked up a copy on Amazon a couple of years ago :-) )

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Jonas Meyer

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Is this a questionaire by booksellers. – Sunni Mar 15 2010 at 14:50

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If there are any reading, maybe they will take note... – Martin Bright Mar 15 2010 at 14:59

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Reprints in Theory and Applications of Categories (tac.mta.ca/tac/reprints) makes it its business to reprint out-of-print books in category theory. At least five books, plus a bunch of classic but hard-to-get-hold-of papers, have appeared so far. If you have suggestions, contact me or another editor. – Tom Leinster Mar 15 2010 at 15:26

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Néron models is in this year's Springer Yellow Sale? – Wanderer Mar 15 2010 at 17:25

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I was going to say Grunbaum & Shephard, Tilings and Patterns, but it turns out it's being re-issued---in paperback, no less---later this year. I love dover books. – Leah Wrenn Berman Mar 15 2010 at 20:10

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yaa09d · Answer 1 · 2012-02-19 09:33:09Z UTC

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The Complex Analytic Theory of Teichmüller Spaces, by Subhashis Nag. ISBN:0471627739. It is for more than $500 on Amazon!!

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