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 First edition (unpublished in U.K. until 1934.)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
The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicolas.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. Third Nicolas Edition. A compact, pleasing edition, with the illustrations of the first Nicolas edition (1836), here printed all on separate leaves. Read More about The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. With Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir...
Price: $300
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
The Silver King: Tarpon Tales. Edited and with Notes and an Introduction by George Reiger.
Stone Harbor NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1992. First Trade Edition. Read More about The Silver King: Tarpon Tales. Edited and with Notes and an Introduction by George Reiger
Price: $100
SIGNED BY CORBIN
The Bonefish. Edited and with Notes and an Introduction by George Reiger.
Stone Harbor NJ: Meadow Run Press, 1993. Corbin, Peter. First Edition. SIGNED BY CORBIN. Signed by Corbin on the title-page A collection of articles and stories of this small but challenging tropic gamefish by authors ranging from Zane Grey and Kip Farrington to Frank Gray Griswold and Philip Wylie. A...... Read More about The Bonefish. Edited and with Notes and an Introduction by George Reiger
Price: $150
Nice Copy of Early Bruce Rogers
The Song of Roland.
[Boston: Printed by The Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1906]. Limited edition, number 144 of 220 copies. Nice Copy of Early Bruce Rogers. “The Song of Roland …, one of the most popular of the Rogers books, was notable for drawings made by Rogers from the stained glass..... Read More about The Song of Roland
Price: $3,000
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
The Mysterious Mickey Finn or Murder at the Café du Dôme. An International Mystery.
New York: Modern Age Books, [1939]. Second printing, September 1939 (same month as the first). Hilarious nostalgic mystery set in the cosmopolitan artistic Paris of the the late 1920s, with forged paintings, a missing American millionaire, staggering quantities of drink, and the murder of a loathsome charatcer, solved by Homer..... Read More about The Mysterious Mickey Finn or Murder at the Café du Dôme. An International Mystery
Price: $50
![Item #366125 Turkey Hill Plantation. [Foreword by Grace Fox Perry]. Jeremiah Milbank, Grace Fox...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366125.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701901580)
Turkey Hill Plantation. [Foreword by Grace Fox Perry].
np: Privately Printed, [1966]. First edition. Read More about Turkey Hill Plantation. [Foreword by Grace Fox Perry
Price: $450