You must be thinking of The Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook or his Engineer's Mini-Notebook or Getting Started in Electronics.

The Engineer's Notebook is still in print:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1878707035

If you download the free Kindle sample, it has some of the illustrations, but mostly just individual components.

This Reddit post has a couple of pages from Getting Started:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/ik1gw4/from_the_book_g...

The Internet Archive has the complete Mini-Notebook:

https://archive.org/details/Forrest_Mims-Engineers_Mini-Note...