London was a little slow for me this year. One of my good friends and major sources of supply had left town for the weekend and consequently the buying was off. Normally, I could count on him to pay for my trip. This year I’ll be lucky to cover my room and board with what I was able to scratch up at the big Saatchi Gallery show and the equally entertaining PBFA fair. (Assuming, of course, I’m able to sell them.)
No complaints, though. Each year I survive, the trade seems to be less about books and more about friends. Anne Marie and I had some lovely times with colleagues who have moved over into the friendship category. Just think, I used to regard them as competitors! And always now, at my advanced age, everywhere I go, the theme song is the same – the Rolling Stones and their nasal whine
Well, this could be the last time
This could be the last time
Maybe the last time, I don’t know
Oh no, oh no
Oh, no! Not this time, please.
Maybe the next time, I dunno. I’ve still got a lot of books to sell!
As usual, we will pay postage on all items shipped within the US. To order a book, please send an email to us at tenpound@tenpound.com listing item number, author and title. Best not to telephone, as I’m frequently out of the office and rely on time-stamped emails to keep everything fist come, first served. Enjoy!
Byrne, Henry L.
The Society of California Pioneers Quarterlies 1924-1931.
The Society of California Pioneers, ( 1924 - 1931), San Francisco
22 cm. Eight volumes bound in four. b/w plates and facsimiles
Item #:51115
Price: $325
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Cooke, Edward William.
Sixty Five Plates of Shipping and Craft.
( 1829), London
30.5 cm. unpaginated. b/w engraved plates.
Item #:51114
Price: $300
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Coulter, John.
Adventures on the Western Coast of South America, and the Interior of California: Including a Narrative of Incidents at the Kingsmill Islands, New Ireland, New Britain, New Guinea, and Other Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Longman, Brown, Green, ( 1847), London
2 volumes, 20 cm. xxiv, 288, 32 (adverts); xii, 278, 2 (adverts). pp.
Item #:51124
Price: $500
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De Roos, Fred. Fitzgerald.
Personal Narrative of Travels in the United States and Canada in 1826… With Remarks on the Present State of the American Navy.
William Harrison Ainsworth, ( 1827), London
21 cm. xii, 207 pp. b/w lithograph plates, folding frontispiece litho
Item #:51125
Price: $250
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Denham, H.M.
Sailing Directions from Point Lynas to Liverpool with Charts, Coast Views, River-Sections… for Navigating the Dee and Mersey (with) Sailing Directions… up to Port Fleetwood”
J. & J. Mawdsley, ( 1840), Liverpool
22.5 cm. xx, (2) 169; 26 pp. b/w folding charts, plates, some hand colored.
Item #:51126
Price: $450
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Ephemera.
Briggs Excursion Fleet Trade Card with Rebus.
Clay & Richmond, ( Circe 1881), Buffalo, NY
15.5 x 18 cm. Chromolithograph with b/w display type on verso
Item #:51133
Price: $50
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Ephemera.
Coney Island Iron Pier Restaurant and Bill of Fare.
Chromotlithograph trade card, 16.5 x 15 cm. Text on verso
Item #:51132
Price: $125
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Ephemera.
Three Chromolithograph Trade Cards Advertising Excursion Trips to Rockaway Beach, NY.
James S. Bradley Art Publisher, ( 1886), New York
Item #:51134
Price: $50
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Fanning, Edmund.
Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-west Coast, Feejee Island, South Shetlands… With an Account of the New Discoveries Made in the Southern Hemisphere Between the Years 1830-1837.
William H. Vermilye, ( 1838), New York
19 cm. xii, 324 pp. b/w lithograph frontispiece.
Item #:51120
Price: $400
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Farrow, John Pendleton.
The Romantic Story of David Robertson, Among the Islands, Off and On the Coast of Maine.
Press of Belfast Age Publishing Company, ( 1898), Belfast, ME
17 cm. 280, (1) pp. b/w halftone and line ills.
Item #:51118
Price: $45
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Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.
Yachts by Herreshoff.
Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., ( n.d), Bristol, RI
4to. 53 pp. Color and b/w plates. Duotone endpaper maps.
Item #:51109
Price: $75
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Janson, William.
A View of the Present Condition of the States of Barbary…
Samuel Leigh, ( 1816), London
17.5 cm. x, 172 pp. Handcolored folding map
Item #:51129
Price: $850
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Lay, William and Cyrus M. Hussey.
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824. and the Journal of a Residence of Two Years on the Mulgrave Islands.
Wm. Lay and C.M. Hussey, ( 1828), New London
16.5 cm. 168 pp.
Item #:51121
Price: $750
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Le Bot, Jean.
Les Bateaux des Côtes de la Bretagne Nord aux Derniers Jours de la Voile.
Editions des 4 Seigneurs, ( 1976), Grenoble
30.5 cm. 222, (1) pp. b/w halftone plates and line ills. throughout. Color plate tipped in as frontispiece. b/w folding plans in front and back pockets
Item #:51110
Price: $40
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Lipfert, Nathan.
Two Centuries of Maine Shipbuilding. A Visual History.
Down East Publishing, ( (2021)), Camden, ME
28 cm. xi, 530 pp. Color and b/w plates
Item #:51112
Price: $45
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Manuscript.
A Practical Course of Artillery by H.A. White 1857
Blank notebook, 20 cm. 273 (numbered in manuscript) pages of manuscript entries including 30 pages of drawings in pencil and ink.
Item #:51127
Price: $750
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Manuscript.
File of Incoming Correspondence to “USS Congress,” April 1870 – June 1871.
Two scrapbooks, 37 cm. with over 350 pieces of correspondence mounted on tabs.
Item #:51136
Price: $2000
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Manuscript.
Record of American Merchant Schooners.
Lined paper notebook, 21 cm. 237 pp. of manuscript entries
Item #:51123
Price: $250
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Mawson, Sir Douglas.
Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
J. P. Lippincott, ( (1915)), Philadelphia
Two volumes, 25 cm. xxx, 348, (1); xiii, 337, (1) pp. Sepia toned photogravure frontispieces. Color and b/w plates, charts, illustrations
Item #:51117
Price: $400
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