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Founded in 1978, James Cummins Booksellers has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store in Manhattan. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests exceeding 50,000 titles, with particular emphasis in British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters.

James Cummins Bookseller has been a member of the ABAA since 1980, and is a member of the ABA and ILAB.

Here for all your bookish needs

  • Bookselling and gift buying
  • Cataloguing, bindery, and conservation
  • Appraisal and valuation
  • Free US delivery over $200 and
    free international delivery over $500
Extra-Illustrated Franklin, Benjamin. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ... Comprising the Private Correspondence and Public Negociations of Dr. Franklin, and his select Political, Philosophical, and Miscellaneous Works, Published from the Original Mss. Extra-illustrated with approx. 60 plates. 6 vols. 8vo. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1818-1819.

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An oasis for book-lovers; visit our quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen and expertly catalogued selection of fine and rare books, works of art, and more.

Address

699 Madison Ave., 7th FL New York, NY 10065, USA

Hours

Monday - Friday
10:00 am to 6:00 pm
(During July & August, until 4:00 pm on Fridays)

Saturday & Sunday
Closed

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