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Tavistock Books specializes in first editions, fine rare books & other related bibliographic material, with a special focus on Charles Dickens. New books arrive daily, please check with us should you not find the title you seek. Book searches are available for first editions in the subject areas you see represented here.

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Slipping Out of Summer

Slipping Out of Summer

Song - slips…?  Broadside ballads…?   I wasn’t sure what to call this genre of street literature, and all my references on this subject, such as Shepard’s HISTORY Of STREET LITERATURE [1973], are still in boxes.  In either case, given their ephemeral nature, in my experience, they are somewhat uncommon.  As I was unpacking a box the other day, I came across 19, a number of which were printed in San Francisco, ca the 1870s.
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