Catalogues

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

November New Arrivals

November New Arrivals

It's never the wrong time to showcase new arrivals! Highlights include Isaac Leeser's "magnum opus": the first English translation of the complete Hebrew Bible by a Jew; the first edition of Under the Greenwood Tree, Thomas Hardy's second, anonymously published novel; and a lovely copy of Roland Clark's scarce Stray Shots.

Americana November 2023

Americana November 2023

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present an Americana catalogue featuring many new arrivals. Highlights include a Tom Thumb sized miniature edition of Barnum's autobiography dedicated "to the Bearded Lady and her hairs forever;" a Bleeding Kansas cartographic rarity which visually represents the slavery conflict and the events leading to the Civil War; and an important early Texas work recording the abortive colony of exiled Napoleonic loyalists established on the Trinity River in 1818, here in original condition.

Literary Letters

Literary Letters

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of literary letters from beloved writers such as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, and George Eliot. Highlights include a letter by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, sending a poem at that point unpublished; A notable Lord Byron letter, showing his commitment to join the armed struggle in Greece; an important letter from Samuel Clemens to his British publisher Andrew Chatto, promising 'early sheets' of Huckleberry Finn; as well as many new arrivals.

Tales and Travels in the Wild West

Tales and Travels in the Wild West

Buffalo Bill, outlaws, and highwaymen. Sensational tales of violence and heroism continue to intrigue audiences well after the image of the cowboy was popularized by "Rough Rider" Theodore Roosevelt. Old Mill Bookshop is pleased to present a collection of books inspired by tales and travels—both real and imagined—in the Wild West. Within this catalogue you will find a photographic portrait of well known cowboy, miner, and rancher, Eugene Manlove Rhodes; a signed Biography of Col Samuel Colt; and enough adventure to satisfy even the biggest thrill-seeker.

African Americana Fall 2023

African Americana Fall 2023

James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a selection of our fine inventory of African Americana with several new arrivals such as an autograph letter from noted African American congressman, John Roy Lynch; Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States, in original wrappers; as well an extraordinarily rare image of the second Colored World Series.

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).
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.

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.