{"id":1504,"date":"2015-01-07T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tavbooks.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2015-01-07T18:42:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:42:14","slug":"new-news-from-tavistock-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tavbooks.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"New News from Tavistock Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, we’d like to wish each and every one of you a very Happy New Year from Tavistock Books! Whether you are a customer, colleague, pure bibliophile, or my mother and father, we have appreciated your attention and custom this past year and wish you all the best of luck in 2015! There are a lot of things happening around here in the near future, and we thought we’d send out this\u00a0update from TB to keep you in the loop.<\/p>\n

Most importantly!\u00a0Upcoming Antiquarian Book Fairs:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Later this January and early February features\u00a0the annual California book fairs – the 48th California International Antiquarian Book Fair to be held in Oakland, CA (right near us! Check it out here: http:\/\/sfbookfair.com\/<\/a>) from February 6th to the 8th, and the Pasadena Book, Print, Photo & Paper Fair the previous weekend (at the Pasadena Convention Center,\u00a0January 31st & February 1st)<\/span>. The fairs are a great chance to meet with like-minded book-loving folk from all over the United States, and both fairs will be host to a handful of international booksellers as well. Tickets are available for purchase online as well as at the fairs. Come on out and support your local booksellers! OR ELSE. \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A Recent Acquisition:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Why yes, you can purchase me! Please, sir, please, I need a new home.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Beaumont, Francis [1585? – 1616]. Fletcher, John [1579 – 1625]. Massinger, Philip [1583 – 1640] – Bush attributed to.\u00a0 BEGGARS BUSH.\u00a0 A Comedy.\u00a0 [bound with] The MAID’S TRAGEDY.<\/strong>\u00a0 London:\u00a0 Printed for J. T. And Sold by J. Brown at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar. 1717. \u00a056; 64 pp. \u00a0 Typographical ornaments to t.p. \u00a04to: A – G^4; A – H^4.\u00a0 8-1\/2″ x 6-1\/8″. \u00a0 Early full leather boards, with modern respiniing to style.\u00a0 Renewed eps.\u00a0 Raised bands.\u00a0 Red leather title label in second compartment; author label in 4th compartment.\u00a0 Date gilt stamped at spine base. Wear & staining to boards, with front paste-down showing faint evidence of prior damping.\u00a0 Paper aged, with foxing & staining.\u00a0 Running title occasionally closely trimmed.\u00a0 An About Very Good – Very Good copy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bush: 1st edition thus, the unaltered version (NCBEL I, 1712; Tannenbaum 7).\u00a0 Maid: 1st edition thus (NCBEL I, 1711; Tannenbaum 293). \u00a0 Regarding Bush, authorship attributed to Fletcher & Philip Massinger by John H. Dorenkamp in his 1967 edition of the play. “The play is one of several works of\u00a0English Renaissance drama<\/span>\u00a0that present a lighthearted, romanticized,\u00a0Robin Hood<\/span>-like view of the world of beggars, thieves, and gypsies; in this respect it can be classed with plays of its own era like\u00a0The Spanish Gypsy<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0Massinger’s\u00a0The Guardian<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0Suckling’s<\/span>\u00a0The Goblins<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0Brome’s<\/span>\u00a0A Jovial Crew<\/em>…\u00a0Yet the play also contains serious aspects that have caused it to be classified as a\u00a0tragicomedy<\/span>\u00a0by some commentators; ‘Through mixed modes\u00a0Beggars Bush<\/em>\u00a0exhibits serious sociopolitical concerns to earn a classification that at first seems incongruous \u2014 a political tragicomedy'” (Clark, The Moral Art of Phillip Massinger<\/em>, p. 116). Click on the picture to see more!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Lists & Blogs on the Horizon:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Dame Agatha Christie<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

And\u00a0folks, despite an upcoming busy schedule for us here at Tavistock Books, we still want to take a little\u00a0time to give you a short\u00a0overview of what to expect in your inboxes from us in the near future. Our monthly Tavistock Books newsletter will go out next Tuesday, January 13th. January 21st will be a large blog on the English crime author Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist of all time (according to the Guinness Book of World Records). \u00a0A list of Select Book Fair Highlights featuring a few of the items that we will be presenting at the California fairs will be announced on the 27th of January, closely followed by a small recap blog of the Pasadena Book Fair on February 3rd. Then look out on the 11th of February for our monthly newsletter once more with a large feature on the Oakland ABAA fair front and center!<\/p>\n

We do hope to see you all at the California Book Fairs later this month and early next – just remember, these are the biggest book fairs on the west coast of the United States! Feel free to contact us with any questions – and definitely stop by the Tavistock Books (Pasadena Booth #L1 & Oakland Booth #100) booths to say hi!<\/p>\n

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