Ten Pound Island Book Co.

Our Most Recent Catalog

This is a list of 17 recently-acquired manuscripts, documents, photographs, and books. They’re all quite rare and wonderful, and I think you’ll enjoy reading about them here.

We do not have a shopping cart feature because some of the material we offer raises questions, and we want to be able to answer them directly, if we can. So, if you wish to order, the best way to do so is to send a quick email to tenpound@tenpound.com and tell us the item number(s) you wish to purchase. We’ll get back to you ASAP regarding availability.

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Bookman’s Log

A weekly blog of news, gossip, recent adventures and acquisitions, and deep thinking about the antiquarian book trade

I forget exactly how we found out about it—this was the late 1970s and Jean and I were still business partners. The venue was an armory in Cambridge, and I made the happy discovery that, just as Willie Sutton had said about banks and money, book fairs … More >>