A specialty of James Cummins Bookseller - Rare and sought after books on book-collecting, publishing history, incunabula, book-plates, fore-edge painting, bookbinding, auction and trade catalogues, bibliographies and the history of printing.
New York, Norfolk, CT, and Wilson, Wyoming: 1966-1973. To Bill Targ. New Directions publisher James Laughlin writes to... Read More about 2 autograph letters signed, 4 typed letters signed, and 1 typed letter, to William Targ
Price: $1,000
[San Francisco]: [Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy] for The Book Club of California, 1963. First edition, one of 450 copies. Read More about The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. An Account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's Works From the...
Price: $200
London: Holland Press, [1954]. Second edition. Read More about Bibliotheca Chemica. A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharaceutics. Foreword by...
Price: $250
London: Derek Verschoyle Academic and Bibliographical Publications Ltd, 1954. Reprint of 1906 Edition. Read More about Bibliotheca Chemica. A Bibliography of Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Pharaceutics. Foreword by...
Price: $200
Paris: Académie Des Bibliophiles, 1868. First edition, #227 of 300 copies sur papier vergé de Hollande. Read More about Catalogue d'un Marchand Libraire de XVe Siècle tenant boutique à Tours...avec notes explicatives
Price: $175
New York: New York Public Library, 1927. First edition. The Rosenbach Exhibition. The pamphlet issued for the exhibition of Dr. Rosenbach's collection at the New York Public Library. Read More about Early American Children's Books 1682-1840. The Private Collection of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach
Price: $125
[Venice: Molinari], 1850. First edition. Scarce bibliography of the works of the Venetian historian and antiquarian Cicogna (1789-1868). OCLC locates only 2 copies in the US. the attribution comes from NUC (via OCLC). Read More about Di alcuni scritti pubblicati da Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna Veneziano dall'anno MDCCCVIII al MDCCCL
Price: $350
Caen: de l’Imprimerie de Bonneserre, Rue Froide, 1822. Unrecorded Caen Imprint. Foundation document of the Sociéte Biblique Protestante de Caen, an auxiliary of the national Society in Paris, with constitution (17 articles), members of the administrative committee, and a priced catalogue of Bibles and New Testaments available. Unrecorded. Read More about Circulaire du Comité d’Adminstration de la Sociéte Biblique Protestante de Caen. Formation et...
Price: $300
London: Printed for T. Basset, J. Adamson, and T. Newborough, 1687. First edition. Rare annotated bibliography attributed to Clagett by the British Library Catalogue; according to the DNB, though, it was begun by Thomas Tenison and finished by William Clagett. Read More about The present state of the controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome: or,...
Price: $1,250
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1974. One of 450 copies printed at The Plantin Press. Read More about Four Lectures by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Edited, with an Introductory Essay on Cobden-Sanderson's...
Price: $175
Kew Richmond Surrey: 22 April, 1954; 20 October, 1954; 30 January, 1955. Cockerell to Paul Standard. Charming letters from the aging museum director, collector, and calligrapher, to his American counterpart Paul Standard, founding member of the Typophiles and champion of calligraphy. In the first, Cockerell expresses his delight on receiving the..... Read More about 3 Autograph Letters, signed (“Sydney Cockerell”), to Stella and Paul Standard
Price: $750
Paris: Chez P. Rouquette, Libraire, Passage Choiseul,85-87, 1873. Seconde édition, one of 50 on Whatman, Copy Number 1. COPY NUMBER ONE OF 50 ON WHATMAN. Read More about Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Gravures du XVIIIe Siècle. Revue, Corrigée et enrichie ... et...
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Scarborough: printed and published by John Cole and by Longman, Hurst, et al, 1824. First edition. Limited to 158 copies, of which 100 were printed on small paper, 50 copies on large paper, and 8 on coloured paper (Lowndes p.491). This is a Large Paper Copy. The large paper copies..... Read More about A Bibliographical and Descriptive Tour from Scarborough to the Library of a Philobiblist in its...
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London: Frank Hollings, 1900. First edition, One on 30 on LARGE PAPER, Copy no. 30. ONE OF 30. Read More about The Bibliography of Coleridge. A Bibliographical List arranged in Chronolgical Order of the...
Price: $300
Paris: La Librairie de "L'Art" 1887. First edition, ONE OF 500 COPIES (total edition of 650) in one volume, on Japon. Delightful potpourri by the Vice-President of la Société des Amis des Livres, with everything for the collector of books, paintings, drawings, autographs, pottery, and knick-knacks - with a plethora..... Read More about Racontars Illustrés d'un Vieux Collectionneur
Price: $450
n.p: published by the Class of 1912, 1922. First Edition. Eugene Connett, Factory Manager. Eugene V. Connett, III, (1891-1969) established and ran The Derrydale Press throughout its fifteen year existance 1926-1941, producing about 170 of the finest sporting books ever published in America, plus a series of superb sporting prints..... Read More about Class of 1912 Princeton University Ten Year Record
Price: $250
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New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. First Edition, One of 485 copies (of which 450 are for sale). Designed by Bruce Rogers. Inscribed on ther front free-endpaper "To my friend/ Col. Marston E. Drake-/ with the regards of one of the/ authors of this biik./ Eldridge L. Adams. July 1928"..... Read More about Joseph Conrad: The Man [and] A Burial in Kent by John Sheridan Zelie. Together with some...
Price: $100
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd, 1921. Second edition. One of 170 copies. INSCRIBED TO MESSRS. DOUBLEDAY & PAGE. Inscribed to Messrs. Doubleday & Page (Conrad's American Publisher) by Wise on the half-title. Read More about A Bibliography of the Writings of Joseph Conrad
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New Haven & London: Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1985-1988. First American Edition. "Captain James Cook's three voyages of exploration to the Pacific between 1768 and 1780 were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to carry professional artists. The Art..... Read More about The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771; Volume II:...
Price: $750
Pittsburgh: Randolph Barnes, Third Street, 1819. Cagle calls this edition the Third American edition, after First American 1818 Philadelphia edition and an 1819 New-Haven edition, originally published in London in 1810. Cagle says it is not by Mrs. Rundell Chapter Vi is on Books: extract grease from leaves of books, method..... Read More about The Family Receipt Book containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in various Branches of...
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Madrid: Impr. de la "Revista de Arch., Bibliothecas y Museos" 1914-1916. First edition. Read More about Diccionario Biográfico y Bbibliográfico de Calígrafos Españoles
Price: $450
Paris: La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1927. One of 625, printed on Navarre paper. Read More about Les Enluminures des Manuscrits du Moyen Age (du VIe au XVe siècle
Price: $325
Paris: D. Morgand & C. Fatout, 1878. First edition, one of 10 copies on Whatman paper, "avec tirages successifs d'un chromo", in a total edition of 620 copies. Read More about Voyage dans un grenier: bouquins, faïences, autographes & bibelots
Price: $500
[London: Chiswick Press], 1878. First edition, ONE OF 25 COPIES ARE PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, of the Chiswick Press, London. COLLECTOR'S COPY. Collector's own copy with his shelf locations marked opposite entries and interleaved. Read More about Catalogue of the Library at Brook House Park Lane belonging to Sir Dudley Coutts Majoribanks,...
Price: $1,750
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1933. One of 650 copies. Read More about A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930
Price: $600
San Francisco & Los Angeles (for the 1964 Supplement): John Henry Nash, 1933 (vols. I - III); and 1964. One of 650 copies. Read More about A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930. WITH Supplement
Price: $500