But a copy has been discovered.
A video copy has been shown over and over on television across the country.
That document has was provided to Mr Bamber in prison today and a copy has been sent to his legal representative," he said.
According to online auction house Paddle8, the album's sole copy has been sold for an undisclosed figure in the "millions" to an American buyer.
No copy has been made because that would be, as Dr Johnson says: "like fitting wheels to a tomato — time consuming and completely unnecessary".
A performance of the song has been uploaded to YouTube and a copy has been sent to Clarence House as a gift.
To promote the music video for the same track, Cut Copy has been releasing GIFs of footage leading up to its release.
Laying claim to being the first autobiography ever written in English, the "extraordinary" life story of the medieval mystic Margery Kempe, which exists in only one known copy, has been digitised by the British Library for the world to view.
It used to be that you could buy the OED, and generate only one blip of data ("a copy has been sold"), and you could retain the book forever.
Jay described it to me as "exceedingly rare — only one copy has been sold in my collecting lifetime," and said that he had acquired his from a New York dealer "after a long negotiation".
With this as the back story, Byrd sets "The Paris Deadline" in 1926 Paris, where the duck — or a copy — has been discovered in a run-down Left Bank store.
