He started writing for the now defunct Books & Bookmen and a career as a journalist followed: at Event, a magazine owned by Richard Branson, at the Observer and at Tatler, where Tina Brown hired him as features editor.
Set in the Great Depression, it was based on an anthology of the Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie he bought as a Christmas present from the now defunct Doubleday book store on New York's Fifth Avenue.
Mr. Walker, 54, gets excited when he talks about the blues, Avenue A, punk rock, neoclassical artisanship, Robert Schumann, motorcycle movies, defunct used-book stores and much else.
An anonymous donor has purchased the entire inventory — more than two hundred thousand volumes — of the now-defunct Gotham Book Mart and given it to the University of Pennsylvania's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
WildStorm, Lee's now-defunct comic book publishing company, produced concept art for the game.
At the heart of Lehman's case is fair valuation of the defunct bank's $70bn book of securities at the time of its collapse.
Written by J. David Kuo, a former executive at Value America, the defunct retailer, the book is to be published on Oct. 15 by Little, Brown.
New editions are released every few years, rending past years' books defunct.
I joined the mostly defunct Vox Weed's Book Club, and the first book was "An American Sickness".
Are books, like defunct internet pages, heading towards the point where they will be archived as an academic curiosity?
