James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of newly catalogued inventory representing a wide range of collecting interests. Highlights include the original van Gulik polychrome block print used for the bookcover of Dee Gong An; a dramatic rendering of the death of Colonel Shaw and his 54th Massachusetts African American troops at Fort Wagner; and a first edition, first printing of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of inventory related to psychology and psychiatry that highlights the vastly different approaches taken throughout history, from balancing the four bodily humors to using LSD in psychotherapy. Highlights include a scarce first edition multigraph copy of one of Jung's private 'invitation only' seminars; John Huarte's Examen de Ingenios, published in 1596; and Thomas Trotter's A View of the Nervous Temperament, the first psychiatric book published in America.
We are over the moon to offer a catalogue of inventory related to outer space ranging from the first published scientific work based on observations of the moon and stars made through a telescope, to fiction inspired by interstellar travel! Highlights include the original sketchbook for William M. Timlin's The Ship that Sailed to Mars; an autograph letter from astronomer Maria Mitchell; a group photograph signed by the first four Russian cosmonauts; and an interesting piece of commemorative space memorabilia from the first international partnership in space: the Apollo-Soyuz docking, which took place in July 1975.
Nothing is more exciting than a fresh batch of new acquisitions! Highlights include the first American edition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own; an outstanding copy in dust jacket of the pioneering feminist sci-fi novel, Swastika Night by Murray Constantine (pseudonym of Katharine Burdekin); and an extraordinarily rare team photograph of the second Colored World Series, taken in 1925 at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia.
A selection of books relating to horses, and equestrian pursuits, including thoroughbred racing and its history in America and England. Many of these titles come from the library of the Jockey Club in New York, often with interesting earlier provenance.
Catalogue 145 is a comprehensive offering of the works of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) from the private collection of Gary Oleson, proprietor with Franny Ness of Waiting for Godot Books in Hadley, Massachusetts. The items are listed chronologically. As with the writings of Borges, patterns and connections will reveal themselves across these pages. The catalogue is published on the occasion of a Borges centenary, the hundredth anniversary of the publication of his first book of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923).
