From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, James Cummins Bookseller is offering 25% off on a selection of nearly 200 items in a wide range of fields including literature, sporting, travel, Americana, science, sets, and fine bindings.
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Cambridge, Ma: Privately Printed by Charles B. Wood, 1997. Allen, Gordon. First book edition of an essay originally published in 1875; No. 19 of 55 copies, signed by Ledlie, the printer Darrell Hyder, and Wood. No effort has been spared to make this book, in the words of the publisher..... Read More about Ten Days' Sport on Salmon Rivers. With an Introduction by David Ledlie
Price: $3,500
New Haven: Printed by B.L. Hamlen, 1843. Printed for Private Circulation. Presentation from America’s ‘First Arabist of Note’. Inscribed on front cover "Rev. Dr. Bacon with the respects of the author." Edward Elbridge Salisbury (1814-1901), “America’s first Arabist of note”, studied theology and Hebrew, and graduated from Yale in the..... Read More about An Inaugural Discourse on Arabic and Sanskrit Literature, delivered in New Haven, Wednesday,...
Price: $2,500
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1937. Deluxe edition, copy no. 71 of 157 with a signed etching 'salmon" Deluxe Issue. Read More about Fish by Schaldach: Collected Etchings, Drawings and Watercolors of Trout and Salmon
Price: $1,250
Millis, Mass: The Complete Sportsman, 1994 & 1997. Limited edition Number 133 of 250 copies printed on 157 gsm Glossy Art paper and hand bound, signed by Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils. Read More about Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History treating both standard and rare...
Price: $4,000
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. First edition. Inscribed with a Nutshell Kid vignette. Inscribed “For Bob Wilson [drawing of a Nutshell kid] Maurice Sendak / April '81”. Read More about Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie Starring the Nutshell Kids, Music by Carole King
Price: $1,250
London: Printed [by William Strahan] for J. and R. Tonson … T. Longman [et al], 1765. Second Johnson edition. Johnson's Shakespeare: A Landmark of Literary Scholarship. A handsome copy of Johnson's famous edition of Shakespeare; the second edition, issued November 1765, a month after the first edition, and distinguished only..... Read More about The Plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of...
Price: $4,500
Dublin: Printed by and for Geo. Grierson … and for George Ewing …, 1726. First Irish edition of Shakespeare. 'The first edition of Shakespeare's works published in Ireland' (Jaggard). A rare complete set of the first edition of Shakespeare’s works printed in Ireland. Published in 8 volumes by George Grierson..... Read More about The Works of Shakespear. In Eight Volumes. Collated and Corrected by the Former Editions, by Mr....
Price: $25,000
London: T. and A. Constable, 1901-1904. The Edinburgh Edition of the Henley Shakespeare, Number 44 of 150 copies. ONE OF 150 COPIES. Read More about The Works … The Edinburgh Edition. Edited by W. E. Henley
Price: $2,500
Toronto: Printed by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press for the Publisher's Association of Canada Limited, 1913-1917. Author' Edition. First edition, Number 848 of 875 Impressions on All-Rag Watermarked Paper, signed by the Publisher. Read More about Canada and Its Provinces. A History of the Canadian People and Their Institutions by One Hundred...
Price: $2,500
London: Printed for G. Hawkins, 1735. First edition, errata leaf at end. IN CONTEMPORARY MOTTLED CALF. A classic of foxhunting literature, written by a man of whom it was said “his only enemy was the weather.” William Somervile (1677-1742) was often referred to as the “Sportsman’s Poet”. Parr said of..... Read More about The Chace. A Poem
Price: $1,500
Manchester: James Ainsworth, 1852-1853. First edition, issued simultaneously in 30 serialized wrappered parts and 7 serialized bound parts (complete); later issued in 3 volumes. BOUND CLOTH PARTS. First edition. A remarkable copy of an important and unusual book, written by a radical journalist from the ranks of the working class..... Read More about The Whistler at the Plough; containing travels, statistics, and descriptions of scenery &...
Price: $3,000
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1914. First edition. Southard "had the first fish camp built on the Kennebago ... kept very complete records of Kennebago Lake (Rangeley, Maine) fishing, including sky and weather conditions" (Bruns). Chapter XVI, pp. 217-224, deals with “Trout Fly-Fishing in the Rangeley Region” An important pre-war..... Read More about Trout Fly-Fishing in America
Price: $1,000
New York: J.B. Gibson Company, 1893. UNRECORDED CENTENNIAL HISTORY: ‘A Bulwark against Panic’. Centennial publication comprising a list of officers and committee members, a 9-page list of members, an anonymous 30-page illustrated “History of the New York Stock Exchange” from its origins in 1792 (with list of past presidents), with..... Read More about Souvenir of the New York Stock Exchange
Price: $7,000
London: Rowland Ward, 1904. Siberian Sport & Travel in 1903. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Captain H. W. Seton-Karr, who accompanied Swayne on this trip, and who has inserted 25 larger photographs, approx. 3 x 5 inches (often inserted on the blank verso of the printed plates, including..... Read More about Through the Highlands of Siberia
Price: $7,500
Berlin: Braunschweig, 1902-1913. Stunning Textile Samples. Read More about Zeitschrift für Farben- und Textil-Chemie
Price: $2,500
Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, for the Author, 1840. First edition. Read More about Reminiscences of the Last Sixty-Five Years, Commencing with the Battle of Lexington. Also,...
Price: $250
Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1849. First edition of the author's first book. Thoreau’s First Book, With an Unrecorded Contemporary Review : ‘Rare Merits’. A notable copy of Thoreau’s first book, largely overlooked when initially published, and now a recognized classic. Emerson famously declined to review his friend’s..... Read More about A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Price: $7,500
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963). First edition. Read More about What is Remembered
Price: $250
London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. First edition. Read More about The American Senator
Price: $1,500
London: Smith and Elder, 1864. Millais, J.E. First edition. Read More about The Small House at Allington
Price: $1,350
Mt. Vernon NY: Privately printed by William Edwin Rudge, 1927. One of 500 specially bound copies of a total edition of 900. Beachcomber Bill’s copy. A fascinating account of this social and scientific expedition, and a monumental example of fine book production. William E. Belanske’s copy with two photographs aboard..... Read More about To Galapagos on the Ara 1926: the events of a pleasure-cruise to the Galapagos Islands and a...
Price: $1,250
New York: Harcourt Brace & World, [1968]. First Edition. First Book, Review Copy. Read More about Once. Poems
Price: $900
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, [1960]. First edition of the author's first book. Read More about The Human Season
Price: $500
London: John Major, 1824; 1825. Second Major edition of first title; First Major edition of second title. Read More about The Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ... to which is added an Introductory...
Price: $2,250
London: William Pickering, 1825. First Pickering edition, in the Diamond Classics series. Dean Sage Copy. The first Pickering edition of Walton's classic; printed in diamond type by Thomas White, Johnson's Court. The most desirable of Pickering's Diamond Classics. Read More about The Complete Angler
Price: $750