The Queen of Pirate Isle.
London: Warne, [1886]. Greenaway, Kate. Warne edition, following the Chatto and Windus edition of 1886. Read More about The Queen of Pirate Isle
Price: $150
New Arrivals
Some of our most recently catalogued items in all fields can be found here.
The Gilded Bat.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, [1979]. Reissued 1979, first printing, originally published in 1966. Inscribed and signed on the title page, “For Carol, Edward Gorey”. Read More about The Gilded Bat
Price: $225
Signed
The Willowdale Handcar, or the Return of the Black Doll.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1979]. Reissued in 1979, first printing, originally published in 1961. Signed. Inscribed and signed on the title-page, “For Carol, Edward Gorey”. Read More about The Willowdale Handcar, or the Return of the Black Doll
Price: $225
The Hapless Child.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1980]. Reissued 1980, first printing, originally published in 1961. Inscribed on the title page, “For Carol, Edward Gorey”. Read More about The Hapless Child
Price: $175
Presentation Copy
The Black Bear of Pennsylvania (Ursus Americanus). Compiled by Henry W. Shoemaker. With Chapters by John C. French.
ALtoona: Times Tribune Company, 1921. First edition. Presentation Copy. Compendium of bear lore and accounts of black bears in Pennsylvania. The back wrapper bears a presentation, Compliments of H.W. Shoemaker, McElhatton, Pa. Uncommon. Read More about The Black Bear of Pennsylvania (Ursus Americanus). Compiled by Henry W. Shoemaker. With Chapters...
Price: $250
Typings (1974-1977).
[New York: Vehicle Editions, A. Levitt, 1979]. First edition, one of 500 hardcover copies. Striking and superbly produced volume of concrete poetry and typewriter art by Christopher Knowles, printed by Meriden Gravure on Beckett vellum. Read More about Typings (1974-1977
Price: $500
Sea and Sardinia.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1921. First edition. Read More about Sea and Sardinia
Price: $500
England’s Pleasant Land. A Pageant Play.
London: Hogarth Press, 1940. First edition. Read More about England’s Pleasant Land. A Pageant Play
Price: $125
Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays.
Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. Esherick, Wharton. First edition (unpublished in U.K. until 1934.) Edition of 925 copies, this copy unnumbered, “Remaindered” in pencil. The Second Book of the Centaur Press. Read More about Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
Price: $150
![Item #366201 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung [Little Red Book]. Mao Tse-Tung](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366201.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1697640597)
First Edition in English
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung [Little Red Book].
Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1966. First edition in English. First Edition in English. First edition in English of Mao's Little Red Book. 720 million copies of the Chinese text of Mao's Little Red Book were printed over a four-year period beginning in 1964; only the Bible has had a larger..... Read More about Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung [Little Red Book
Price: $1,000
An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets.
London: Constable & Co, 1934. First edition. A landmark of bibliography and scholarly enterprise, recounting the research that uncovered the forgeries of THomas J. Wise. Read More about An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets
Price: $300
England My England.
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. First edition. Read More about England My England
Price: $250
The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship...
Boston: Joseph Bumstead, for D. West, Marlboro'-Street and E, 1791. Read More about The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian...
Price: $250
IN ORIGINAL BOARDS ON ATOMOSPHERIC ELECTRICTY
New Experiments on Electricity, wherein the causes of Thunder and Lightning as well as the constant state of positive or...
Derby: John Drewry, 1789. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS ON ATOMOSPHERIC ELECTRICTY. Bennet was a clergyman who was also a physicist. He invented the gold-leaf electroscope and an improved magnetometer. Alesandra Volta regarded the theory of electricity that Bennet put forth in this book as a key influence in leading to the..... Read More about New Experiments on Electricity, wherein the causes of Thunder and Lightning as well as the...
Price: $2,000
For Whom the Bell Tolls.
New York: Scribner's, 1940. First edition, first state dust jacket. Read More about For Whom the Bell Tolls
Price: $550
![Item #366173 Ten Woodcuts of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. [Text by JKent]. Norman Kent](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366173.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696877451)
Ten Woodcuts of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. [Text by JKent].
Rheims: 1941. One of 2500 copies printed at the Humphrey Press in Geneva NY. With TLS from Kent to David Silve sending him this copy. Read More about Ten Woodcuts of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company. [Text by JKent
Price: $100
Rare Variant Issue Jacket
Native Son.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, first printing with A-P below the editions statement. Rare Variant Issue Jacket. A landmark work in African American fiction, which became the first Book of the Month Club selection by an African-American writer, selling 250,000 copies in its first three weeks on..... Read More about Native Son
Price: $3,500
Inscribed
My Friends When Young. The Memoirs of Brigit Patmore. Edited with an introduction by Derek Patmore.
London: Heinemann, [1968]. First edition. Inscribed. A memoir of literary life in the early twentieth century up to the eve of the second world war. Brigit Patmore (1882-1965), Ulster-born wife of the grandson of Coventry Patmore, was friends with Violet Hunt, Pound, Eliot, Hemingway, and D.H. Lawrence. She left her..... Read More about My Friends When Young. The Memoirs of Brigit Patmore. Edited with an introduction by Derek Patmore
Price: $100
Becket & Giacometti as Lucky and Ponzo
Typed Letter, signed (“Mike”), to Helen Bishop, about plans for a sculpture of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
New York: 7 January 1989. Becket & Giacometti as Lucky and Ponzo. Sculptor Michael De Lisio (1911-2003) writes to actress and writer Helen Bishop (1931-2015) about his ideas for a sculpture of Waiting for Godot with Beckett and Giacometti as Lucky and Ponzo. De Lisio was a keen devotee of..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Mike”), to Helen Bishop, about plans for a sculpture of Beckett’s...
Price: $100
Review Copy
Visions of Gerard.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963. First edition, first printing. Review Copy. The first entry into Kerouac's Dulouz Legend, or his autobiographical experimental epic series, this book is unique among Kerouac's work in its focus in the sensations and sensabilities of childhood. It's illustrated throughout by the drawings of..... Read More about Visions of Gerard
Price: $250
A Bibliography of the Writings of D.H. Lawrence. With a Foreword ("The Bad Side of Books", pp. 9-14) by D.H....
Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1925; 1931. First edition, number 93 of 190 copies, signed by the author and D.H. Lawrence; number 264 of 300 copies. Read More about A Bibliography of the Writings of D.H. Lawrence. With a Foreword ("The Bad Side of...
Price: $500
Robert Hellimont. Journal d'un Solitaire.
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, nd. Inscribed to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr from uncle Luce and date Christmas 1916 added in pencil on the ffep. Read More about Robert Hellimont. Journal d'un Solitaire
Price: $200
MRS T.R. TO CABOT LODGE
Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres.
Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, nd. MRS T.R. TO CABOT LODGE. With Calling card of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt (Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt) tipped onto the front pastedown, and inscribed "Dear Cabot I hope you will care to read a very unprofitable little book." HCL and TR were the..... Read More about Souvenirs d'un Homme de Lettres
Price: $500
Presentation Copy to Gershon Legman
Tanoshii ayatori asobi.
Nagoya: Reimei Shobo, [1973]. Presentation Copy to Gershon Legman. Presentation copy of this Japanese text on string figures, inscribed by the author to a noted folklorist and scholar of human behavior: “To Mr. Gershon Legman from Seishiro Yuasa, 1976. 2. 6. Learn with Children Walk with Children” and with a...... Read More about Tanoshii ayatori asobi
Price: $100