James Cummins Bookseller

Holiday Catalogue

Have a look through our new printed Holiday Catalogue

Welcome to James Cummins Bookseller

Since 1978, James Cummins Bookseller has been selling rare books, autographs and first editions of all kinds. We specialize in literature, Americana, children’s books & original illustrations, sporting books, travel & voyages, fine press and decorative bindings.

Our Manhattan bookshop is open to the public 6 days a week. We hope you'll stop by.

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Eighteenth-Century English Literature

We are pleased to offer a selection of autograph material of Washington Irving, from the collection of the late great Irving scholar and collector, Andrew B. Myers (1920-1998). Myers, who taught at Fordham for several decades beginning in 1946, was a longtime president of the Washington Irving Society, author of numerous works about Irving, and editor of several editions of Irving’s works.

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Sporting Books & Prints

We are pleased to send you our latest sporting catalogue, with books, prints and manuscript material ranging from Restoration England to the middle 1960s, including the Schwerdt copy of the second National Sports of Great Britain, Eugene Connett’s Magic Hours, Roland Clark’s Etchings, Charles Phair’s Atlantic Salmon Fishing, and other notable Derrydale Press titles, the manuscripts of several books by John Alden Knight, and the Streeter copy of A Western Trip, a great turn of the century record of a trip to Yellowstone.

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