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The Last 156 Copies of ‘The Art of Joinery’ – Sold Out

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I’ll try to make a long story short enough. While looking under my bed for some shoes, I found an unopened box of 52 copies of “The Art of Joinery,” our first book at Lost Art Press. Then while, doing inventory, I found another sealed box of 52 that was mixed in with “The Essential Woodworker.” And we had another box of them that we had pretty much forgotten about.

So we are going to sell these last 156 copies for $20 each plus shipping – way below the market rate for this book. If you want a copy of the first edition, now is your chance.

Before you order, please read this: One copy per customer. Sorry scalpers. If we find out you ordered more than one, we will simply cancel all your orders. As of 11 p.m. we are sold out.

In 2013 we are going to come out with a revised edition of this book with a new design, a new font, a few text changes and the addition of the entire original text from Joseph Moxon – unaltered for the purists.

— Christopher Schwarz

46 thoughts on “The Last 156 Copies of ‘The Art of Joinery’ – Sold Out”

  2. Shut up and take my money. I’m breaking the “don’t buy anything for yourself the month before Christmas” rule for this. Thanks!

  4. I want one too, Chris.
    How do we deal with LAP’s old “not shipping outside of the USA” policy which so badly needs to change?
    Cheers.
    Greg Miller, Western Australia.

  6. Why can you not ship to Canada, its easy, just tell the post office its going to Canada and they send it here.
    Mark Lethbridge Georgetown, Ontario, Canada

    1. Mark,

      If it were that easy, we would of course do it. It is risky and expensive for a small company to ship internationally. We did ship internationally the first year in business. We lost our shirts on it.

      We hope to offer it when we can get the customs process automated. Otherwise, it would be unaffordable for you.

  7. Oh man I have the worst luck, 🙁 no joke I literally gave up waiting on finding a hardcopy and bought the digital download of this book at lunch today when I put down my deposit for the deluxe Moxon reprint.

    1. That is tough luck, but not quite the worst. Here in the UK we can’t order directly from LAP. That means no ‘Art of Joinery’, and no T-shirts. We can’t get wide boards to build 6-board chests, or attend any of Chris’ woodworking courses. Sob. Now I’m crying into my warm beer. The answer’s still ’emigrate’, I know.

      1. The new edition will be carried by Axminster and Classic Hand Tools. Ask them to carry our T-shirts. We would be happy to sell them to them.

  9. Hi Chris, How does a Canadian order this book? Your online store seems to only allow US addresses. I really wanted to buy it for Christmas gift to myself.

  15. Glad to hear there’s a new edition coming out. Hopefully Lee Valley will carry up here in Canada

  17. Can you get Lee Valley to sell your shirts so all of your Canadian fans can have one?

    1. We cannot make anyone carry any of our products. It’s Lee Valley’s decision what to put in the Lee Valley catalog. We’d be happy to sell them shirts. Though they sell Lee Valley shirts….

  20. Having seen the prices of copies of this book on used book and auction sites (who knows if anyone was paying those ask prices?) I am impressed with the price. Have two copies already or I would have been in for one. Class can be hard to define but its easy to spot when you see it.

    (Spoiler: $406 copy on Alibris)

  22. Sorry, I didn’t read all the comments prior to my last entry, I was trying to order as quickly as possible and alert you to my interest.

    Am I picking up in the comments, that you will be re printing this book? I mean, I have the digital copy, as I do of most of your books, but I for one, still have a substantial favoritism for the paper form. The digital is nice to read while waiting in a Dr’s office or other such places, but I really still like the hardcopy form much better.

    I really hope you’ll re print some of these titles.

    Pete

  24. Does anyone find this lust for the aquisition of ancient methods and tools through the vehical of e-commerce as fascinating as I do?

    1. Yeah, I’m with you. Pulled a back muscle, got home by eight thirty, beer, hot bath, pillow. By the time I read this I was S.O.O.L. Guess it’s reprints for me.

  28. please tell me theres one left I was actually considering pay 350 today for it on amazon

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