Item 338393A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys.
Price: $2,500
Boston: Ticknbor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First Edition, First Issue with no ads. Read More Item Details for A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys Add to Wish List
Item #338393
James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of newly catalogued inventory. From a first edition of Dune by Frank Herbert to the landmark work by Strickland and Melville which marks the scientific and popular rediscovery of the extinct Dodo, you are sure to find something of interest in this list.
Price: $2,500
Boston: Ticknbor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First Edition, First Issue with no ads. Read More Item Details for A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys Add to Wish List
Item #338393
Price: $650
New Hampshire: William B. Ewert, 1992. First edition, limited issue; "one of fiteen copies specially bound in half leather" HEANEY, ANNE TYLER, HEYEN, GRUMBACH, R. WILBUR, M. KUMIN. An elusive publication in this half-leather issue. Contains the first appearance of poems by Seamus Heaney ("A Wave from the Distance") [Brandes..... Read More Item Details for Forward into the Past. A Festschrift for May Sarton on her Eightieth Birthday, May 3, 1992 Add to Wish List
Item #338243
Price: $1,200
Portland, Oregon: Vel Noche, 2010. Horowitz, Sarah [cover etching]. First edition, signed by the artist and numbered 4 of 30 numbered copies, total of 35 copies printed. The artist book exhibits fourteen images taken in Acadia National Park in Maine from 2008-2009. Photographer Lauren Henkin (b. 1974, Washington, D. C.)..... Read More Item Details for Silence is an Orchard: Photographs by Lauren Henkin with a poem by Kirsten Rian Add to Wish List
Item #333222
Price: $1,250
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, n.d. [1894]. First edition, second issue (list of books on verso of title page). First Edition, with Inserted Autograph. The classic tale of look-alikes and intrigue around the Ruritanian throne. With two autograph notes, signed (“Anthony H. Hawkins”), tipped to the front free endpaper, the first of..... Read More Item Details for The Prisoner of Zenda Add to Wish List
Item #334522
Price: $1,250
Darlington: Published by the Author at His Offices, Northgate, 1871. First edition. Read More Item Details for Designs for Chimney Pieces Add to Wish List
Item #334893
Price: $750
New York: Printed by William A. Davis, for E. Duyckinck & Co. T. Allen, T. & J. Swords, T. Greenleaf, and J. Tiebout, 1797. First American edition. An epistolary novel, "Written in imitation of Goethe's Sorrows of Werter, and intended to counter the dangerous ideas of that work. Attributed to..... Read More Item Details for THE LETTERS OF CHARLOTTE, During Her Connexion with Werter [by William James]. [Two volumes in one, as issued] Add to Wish List
Item #329337
Price: $3,000
London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadelll, 1788. First edition. From the Editor. "... the first publication and canonization of a large body of [Johnson's] correspondence (some 338 letters)" (ODNB) With a presentation inscription on the front flyleaf, “From the Editor” [Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi], and with the errata..... Read More Item Details for Letters to and From the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to Which are added Some Poems Never Before Printed Add to Wish List
Item #338517
Price: $7,500
Damascus: 1918. Lawrence in Triumph and Renunciation. Choice contemporary portrait of T.E. Lawrence in Damascus in October, 1918, after the series of victories which reshaped the map of the Middle East. At his moment of triumph, Lawrence resigned his position in the Arab army. A similar example of the portrait..... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of T.E. Lawrence in traditional Arab dress, with kufiyah and four band iqal, the hilt of his dagger just visible, standing on a balcony at the Victoria Hotel, Damascus, October 1918 Add to Wish List
Item #334843
Price: $1,500
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. First Edition, first issue. First Issue of Jack London's First Book. Read More Item Details for The Son of the Wolf. Tales of the Far North Add to Wish List
Item #333315
Price: $2,000
Geneva: Skira, 1947 & 1948. INSCRIBED TO EVE CURIE. Each volume is inscribed to Eve Curie, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Eve won a National Book Award for her biography of her mother. Read More Item Details for Psychologie de L'Art. Le Musée Imaginaire. & La Création Artistique Add to Wish List
Item #334901
Price: $900
Salem: John J. Jewett & Co; Cincinnati: William H. Moore & Co, 1845. First edition. A graduate of Princeton (1822), Mansfield was admitted to the Connecticut bar but soon afterward removed to Cincinnati, and in 1836 became professor of constitutional law at Cincinnati College. The author notes in his preface..... Read More Item Details for The Legal Rights, Liabilities and Duties of Women Add to Wish List
Item #334530
Price: $2,500
London: The Verona Press, (1939) [but not published until 1947]. First illustrated edition, with color lithographs by Marie Laurencin, limited to 1200 numbered copies [Kirkpatrick D6; bibliographer states: "Though printed in 1939, the Second World War delayed publication until 1947"]. [Connolly 100 Modern Movements, Number 40]. Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry..... Read More Item Details for The Garden Party And Other Stories Add to Wish List
Item #338311
Price: $850
Boston: 1793-1811. Founded in 1792 by Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine and others, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture is one of the earliest such agricultural societies in the United States. The Society offered annual prizes for work, experiments and inventions relating to agricultural improvement, including..... Read More Item Details for [Two sammelbands of 12 works issued by the Society] Add to Wish List
Item #338554
Price: $1,750
London: Ellis & White, 1873. First edition, one of "twenty-five copies printed on large-paper for Private Circulation only", as stated on verso of half-title. Printed on Whatman paper by John Strangeways. One of 25 Copies on Whatman Paper. "No sane book collector would part with his Whatman copy" (Buxton Forman..... Read More Item Details for Love is Enough or the Freeing of Pharamond. A Morality Add to Wish List
Item #329528
Price: $550
[New York]: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1978]. First edition, uncorrected proof. Proof Copy, Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the first page: “Uncorrected – / I wish I were. / Best / Tillie Olsen.” Silences was the major critical work by Tillie Olsen, addressing “the relationship of circumstance; – including class..... Read More Item Details for Silences Add to Wish List
Item #338594
Price: $250
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Second edition. First separately printed the year prior. Read More Item Details for Lectures on the Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors delivered to the post-graduate class Johns Hopkins University, 1893 ... Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal, 1894 Add to Wish List
Item #338989
Price: $700
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [December], 1915. First edition, large-paper issue, limited to 450 numbered copies, with a page of original manuscript by Julia Ward Howe (as issued), publisher's reference copy. WITH MANUSCRIPT LEAF. Publisher's reference copy, with publisher's bookplate on front flyleaf of each volume. Large-paper issue, limited to 450..... Read More Item Details for JULIA WARD HOWE: 1819-1910. By Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott. Assisted by Florence Howe Hall. With Portraits and other Illustrations. [In Two Volumes] Add to Wish List
Item #333585
Price: $750
New York: Random House, [1959]. First Edition. Inscribed. Inscribed "For Debbie with best wishes, Dr. Seuss" with a photocopy of a 1975 TLS tipped-in, to Mr. Draper, mentioning that "Orton is one of my favorite people and the article about him is excellent!" Read More Item Details for Happy Birthday to You! Add to Wish List
Item #334745
Price: $2,000
[New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1973]. Copy 1 of 125 numbered copies, signed by the author. within the bounds of physics but beyond logic. Facsimile of Patti Smith’s typed and manuscript notes for a spoken word performance, touching upon all the familiars: William Burroughs, junk, Paul Bowles, news headlines, and..... Read More Item Details for Notes pour Java Head [caption title] Add to Wish List
Item #333035
Price: $750
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. Fourth printing, one of 500 copies printed. Read More Item Details for Excursions Add to Wish List
Item #334850
Price: $900
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press, 1936. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Men of Concord And Some Others As Portrayed In The Journal Of Henry David Thoreau : Edited By Francis H. Allen Add to Wish List
Item #338309
Price: $650
U.K: ca. 1974. Graham Keen (b.1937 - d.2019) was a British photographer who documented the counterculture of the 1960's in England. His subjects included major literary, art, and music figures such as William S. Burroughs, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Yoko Ono, Pink Floyd, and Sir John Hurt. Read More Item Details for Van Morrison photograph Add to Wish List
Item #333175
Price: $1,000
New York: The Dial Publishing Co, [1919]. First edition, [issued as Number 2 in the Dial Reprints series (from April 5, 1919 issue of 'The Dial')]. PUBLISHED BY 'THE DIAL' IN 1919, WHEN VEBLEN WAS AN EDITOR. A scarce publication in the first edition. Fred Schwarzkopf's copy (social activist), with..... Read More Item Details for On the Nature and Uses of Sabotage Add to Wish List
Item #329592
Price: $17,500
Princeton: Institute for Advanced Study, 1947. A Foundational Document in the History of Computing. A foundational document in the history of computing, this visionary monograph articulates the procedures for the programming of a stored-program computer, well before such an instrument was available. It also describes for the first time the..... Read More Item Details for Planning and coding of problems for an electronic computing instrument. Report on the mathematical and logical aspects of an electronic computing instrument Part II, Volume I Add to Wish List
Item #333316
Price: $1,000
Philadelphia: Gutekunst, late 1880s. An attractive image of the good grey poet. In his day books, Whitman recorded receiving photographs from Philadelphia portraitist Gutekunst in March 1880. This is a later phototype of the portrait, dated to the later 1880s from a signed example in the Berg Collection at NYPL..... Read More Item Details for Phototype portrait of Walt Whitman, bearded, in soft hat and open collar shirt and jacket Add to Wish List
Item #338375