James Cummins Bookseller and Peter Harrington have acquired the world's leading antiquarian bookseller of printed and manuscript Americana. It will remain in business at the company's existing New Haven location, continuing seamlessly under Nick Aretakis.
James Cummins Bookseller is delighted to offer a special selection of works by writers of the Romantic period, including Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. Other notable writers of the era are also represented such as Charles Lamb, Samuel Rogers, and Robert Southey, with important books by Romantic precursors such as William Cowper and Charlotte Smith.
James Cummins Bookseller is proud to offer a list of Americana featuring a number of new acquisitions and a variety of collecting interests from abolition to sports. Highlights include the Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806 Printed from the Original Manuscripts edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, a presentation copy of Harry E Burgess' God Before the White Man Came inscribed to Pawnee Bill, and a detailed manuscript ledger kept by a Vermont bookseller and bookbinder from 1842.
As Fall approaches, James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to present a curated selection handpicked by our staff, including a number of signed books and presentation copies and material from a variety of collecting interests and price points. Highlights include a rare large paper, hand colored first edition of William Howard Russell's The Atlantic Telegraph, a first edition of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India in a scarce dust jacket, the fourth and 'first collected' edition of Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin published in 1769, Winston Churchill's A History of English Speaking Peoples in presentation bindings and Ha! Ha! Houdini! by Patti Smith.
We can't wait to see some of you in person in stand A3. But for those of you who can’t attend, we’ve put together a small list of some of the highlights we will be exhibiting, including J. E. Brooks' presentation copy of Three Monographs consisting of the fourth, fifth, and sixth of the Capri pamphlets, issued anonymously by Norman Douglas; and the critical second edition of Philosophiae naturalis Principia mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton.
James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a catalogue of our fine inventory of African Americana ranging from abolition to twenty-first century visual art. Highlights include a mint first edition of W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk, the scarce Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, the revised and corrected History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865, and more.
On the year that marks the centenary of Ulysses, James Cummins Bookseller is proud to offer a list of Irish Literature featuring works from modernist masterminds and symbolist poets such as Yeats, Beckett, and Joyce. Highlights include Joyce's first printed work "Ibsen's New Drama" [in] The Fortnightly Review, an inscribed first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Anthony Powell's copy of The Sphinx written by Oscar Wilde and illustrated by Charles Ricketts.
