As Vic stated recently... Summer is here! Sometimes summer is a magical time with vacations planned, long hours of sunlight, and beautiful and balmy outdoor moments. Other times, summer can be a deadly time - when monsoons, tornados, hurricanes and fires abound. With the recent devastation in Hawaii, we are once again reminded of how truly precious life is. Looking at some of our favorite things, full of life and color and joy.
Summer is here! Have you taken your summer vacation yet…? I’m just back from mine, where I spent a week in the woods with the kids & grandkids at a family camp: sweltering temps, bad food, big bugs & creaky cots to sleep on… what more could a fella ask for!
Have two weeks passed already?! It seems like just yesterday Ms P & I issued our Cheap Wine list, so it was with some surprise when, yesterday, Ms P inquired about my selections for this week’s FS list… to borrow a short phrase from our football-oriented brethren, “I punted”. Which is to say this week’s offering is a hodgepodge of material, a word which my desktop dictionary defines as “Noun. North American. a confused mixture”. So there you have it gentle reader, a baker’s dozen titles comprising this week’s confused mixture.
Well, 220 S Rock is starting to look like a book shop… which is to say, my new desk was delivered Friday, all the bookcases are [mostly] in place, and books are slowly filling their shelves. Speaking of books, since our last list, I have unpacked another 300 or so books, of which 20 were selected for this week’s offerings.
Well, Tavistock Books is back in operation…. sort of. My database tells me I have 10,390 items available for possible sale, albeit the preponderance of those are all still in boxes. Since May 7th, when the 3rd & final load was trucked up to Reno from 1503 Webster, of those 10,390 items I have in boxes, I’ve unpacked 494 items and shelved them about the new shop. In many cases, like old friends, we became reacquainted, some eliciting a “Wow, I forgot you were here!” 😃
Here are 20 of those 494 items, including many ‘old friends’, selected for your consideration in this week’s FS list.
Enjoy.
26 years in Alameda, and that time is coming to an end. Over those 2+ decades, Tavistock Books has issued a goodly number of FS lists… with that in mind, as we prepare for our move on 26 March, this will be the last list originating from 1503 Webster Street. And the material herein comes from our “Alcove Case”. It is the case shop visitors would see to their right as they made their way into the shop, and the case I used to house some of my more interesting material. Herewith are 15 items from said case. I hope you too find them ‘interesting’.
These are all terms or phrases booksellers use to describe recent arrivals to their inventory… from the collector’s perspective, such an announcement portends the possibility of finding that one elusive item that has been sought for … well, a while. Or, even, finding that one something that you didn’t know you wanted…? For colleagues in the trade, it raises the possibility of finding a ‘sleeper’, or that one title needed by a preferred customer, thereby enhancing their symbiotic relationship. For the bookseller offering these treasures, it means the last few weeks has been filled with research, discovery and, hopefully, satisfaction in having one’s acquisition instincts validated.
So, herewith, we offer 13 New… Fresh… Just In … items.
Perhaps one, you’ll find, is one you’ve been seeking…?
In any case, do enjoy perusing the list, should you favor us by dong so.
Thank you for your time & consideration.
