Print Catalogues

Below is a list of our most recently printed catalogues. If you are interested in receiving our catalouges by mail please call (212) 688-6441 or e-mail us at info@jamescumminsbookseller.com

  • Jorge Luis Borges

    Jorge Luis Borges

    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).

  • Jorge Luis Borges addenda

    This is only to post the pdf of the addenda, all of the books will go into the other catalogue, and these addenda books will just be a pdf

  • Catalogue 144: Holiday Season 2022

    Catalogue 144: Holiday Season 2022

    We are pleased to present Catalogue 144: Holiday Selections 2022 with highlights such as a finely bound set of The Writings of Mark Twain, with two autograph leaves; an autograph manuscript of 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush, signed and inscribed by Robert Frost; and Christopher Columbus' Epistola Christofori Colom.

    To ensure your packages arrive on time for Christmas, please place all orders before Friday, December 16.

  • Catalogue 143: Literature Selections from Waiting for Godot Books

    Catalogue 143: Literature Selections from Waiting for Godot Books

    For more than forty years the rare booksellers Gary Oleson and Francine Ness operated privately as Waiting for Godot Books. They specialized in many areas of literature: American, British, Irish, Latin-American, Native American, as well as African-American and Women's literature and history. 
    We are pleased to present Catalogue 143: Literature, a selection from the inventory of Waiting for Godot Books with highlights such as Percy Shelley's Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments, inscribed by Mary Shelley, and a corrected typescript of Truman Capote's The House of Flowers. 

     

  • Catalogue 142 - Fine Books & Manuscripts

    Catalogue 142 - Fine Books & Manuscripts

    We're pleased to present our newly printed catalogue, a selection of exceptional highlights from all of our areas of expertise including literature and poetry, Americana, travel, sporting, manuscripts and ephemera, as well as fine press and bindings.  There are a number of association copies and other unique items that we're very happy to share.