Ten Pound Island Book Co.

Our Most Recent Catalog

It was fun brainlessly speed-cataloging cheap books all summer. I’ve worked the pile down to a mere 30 cartons. But enough is enough. They’ll have to wait while I try to make some money. This list contains the rarities I’ve been able to pick up over the past few months, leavened with a selection of some of the better titles from that original 70 cartons of el cheapo maritime books. In other words, something for everyone… I hope.

To order a book, send an email to tenpound@tenpound.com stating the item number and ID number of the book(s) you wish to purchase. (We’re working on a shopping cart feature, but it ain’t here yet.) Our telephone system is back online, so we can take calls, but priority will be given to emails, which are time stamped, and provide “first come, first served” service.

As always, with our lists of better books, there will be no charge for postage and insurance on orders shipped within the US.

Bookman’s Log

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

I’m delighted to announce that someone actually reads this blog. I mean, I think he does, because he supplied the correct answer to last week’s puzzler.  If you recall, the puzzle concerned the “Memoranda” pages of an 1849 Boston Almanac. On each of th … More >>