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Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books

Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present our second list of art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books. This list includes the artist's own copy of the very rare The Studio Souvenir of John R. Johnson with original contributions by Walt Whitman, a signed copy of Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother, and one of four hors commerce sets of Jacob Lawrence's Eight Studies [for the Book of Genesis], signed by the artist.

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Literature Summer 2022

Literature Summer 2022

We are pleased to present a list of newly catalogued literature with highlights such as Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls, inscribed in unrestored dust jacket, Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, first American edition in rare dust jacket, Joan Didion’s Salvador, inscribed to Robert Silvers, André Gide’s manuscript translations of poems by Walt Whitman, E.M. Forster’s Passage to India in dust jacket, and more.

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Civil War

Civil War

James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a selection of printed and manuscript Americana related to the Civil War. Highlights include the first separate printing of the Gettysburg Address, a collection of Confederate imprints from the "Rebel Archives," and the Metropolitan Police record of the Draft Riots in New York.

 

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New Arrivals

New Arrivals

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of newly catalogued inventory. From a first edition of Dune by Frank Herbert to the landmark work by Strickland and Melville which marks the scientific and popular rediscovery of the extinct Dodo, you are sure to find something of interest in this list. 

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Counterculture

Counterculture

We are pleased to present a catalogue of counterculture books and prints. From the revolutionary fringes and the far-flung expanse of the inner mind, beyond the thresholds upheld by the status quo, this selection is a thrilling survey of boundary pushing psychonauts and freedom fighters. We invite you to take a walk on the wild side with our counterculture rarities, yippies and squares alike. Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.

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The Hogarth Press

The Hogarth Press

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present our newest catalogue, an extensive and interesting collection of the celebrated Hogarth Press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. There are many notable titles, including Roger Fry’s Men of Europe, one of the earliest books of the Omega Workshop; Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse; the first English edition of Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents; Roger Fry’s Twelve Original Woodcuts; and Christopher Isherwood’s Sally Bowles.

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Practical Education

Practical Education

Edgeworth, Maria and Richard Lovell...

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Mother's Lee's Experience in Fifteen Years' Rescue Work with Thrilling Incidents of Her Life

Mother's Lee's Experience in Fifteen...

Lee, Martha A

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Hunting Trips on the Prairie and in the Mountains ... "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" Part II

Hunting Trips on the Prairie...

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The Yale University Dramatic Association presents Robin of Sherwood. A comedy by Jack Randall...

The Yale University Dramatic Association...

(Porter, Cole) Crawford, Jack Randall

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The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson. With...

The Poems of Emily Dickinson...

Dickinson, Emily

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Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store located in Manhattan.

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Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books: July 2022 Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books: July 2022
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Catalogue 143: Literature Selections from Waiting for Godot Books Catalogue 143: Literature Selections from Waiting for Godot Books
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