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.
While the discount is limited to this selection, you can find many great gift ideas throughout our website. Please contact us if you need more personalized assistance finding the perfect gift. Our knowledgeable staff is happy to assist you in finding the perfect item to cherish and remember for years to come.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First edition, no. 126 of 260 copies, signed by the author. Charles B. MacDonald’s engaging and wide-ranging memoir. He was sent from Chicago to Scotland in the 1870s, where, at St. Andrews, “I was playng regularly with the best golfers of the day, young..... Read More about Scotland's Gift. Golf. Reminiscences … 1872-1927
Price: $5,000
Paris: de L'Imprimerie de la République, an VI - an VIII [1798-1800]. First edition, octavo issue (Atlas volume is vol. IV of the quarto issue). French Circumnavigation. Substantial account of the 1790-1792 circumnavigation by French creole Etienne Marchand (1755-1793), who sailed from Marseilles in the Solide, round Cape Horn to..... Read More about Voyage autour du Monde pendant les Années 1790, 1791, et 1792 … précédé d’une...
Price: $3,000
V.p. (New York, Phila., etc.): 1891-1927. "The greatest Jewish master of Biblical learning in America" Max L. Margolis, linguist and scholar, was professor of Biblical Philology at Dropsie College from 1909 until his death in 1932. The "greatest Jewish master of Biblical learning yet arisen in America," Margolis was named..... Read More about Collection of works, including his first book, Author's copies of scholarly publications, and...
Price: $4,500
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud, 1903. Number 49 of 60 copies printed on Japan Paper, with the etched plates in three states, two of which are colored by hand, with an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOLLOWING THE TITLE, SIGNED BY ROCHEGROSSE. Read More about Le Poison des Pierreries
Price: $3,000
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1963]. First edition. Read More about Leaving Cheyenne
Price: $2,500
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Fifty-seventh edition. Inscribed to Ronald Colman. "To Ronald Colman In the hopes that some day, not in too far distant, our acquaintance will not be limited to screen and book. Sincerely yours H. C. McNeile 'sapper" Nov. 34." Read More about Bull-Dog Drummond
Price: $2,000
Saint-Paul, A.-M: Les Cahiers du Contadour, [n.d., 1939]. First edition in French, one of a very few copies printed. 'Je m'appelle Ishmaèl" — véritable édition originale de Moby Dick en français. The first notice of Moby Dick in French dates from the first volume of the Revue des Deux Mondes..... Read More about Moby Dick. Traduit de l’Américain par Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith et Jean Giono
Price: $12,500
![Typee.] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesa...](/pictures/thumb/234587.jpg?v=1534805463)
London: John Murray, 1846-7. First editions of Melville’s first two novels: Typee in first issue, p.19 l.1 reading “Pomarea”; Omoo with signature P present on p. 209 (BAL state A). ‘Typee’ & ‘Omoo’ in First Issue. Melville’s first novel was based upon his experiences living in the Marquesas after he..... Read More about Typee.] Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesa...
Price: $4,500
Pawlet, Vt: The Banyan Press, [1954]. First edition, copy no. 123 of 210 numbered copies. Merrill's extremely scarce early collection, this copy inscribed to Robert Wilson (owner of the famous Phoenix Book Shop in Greenwich Village) in 1964. Read More about Short Stories
Price: $1,000
![L'immunité dans les maladies infectieuses [title in Russian]. Elie Metchnikoff](/pictures/thumb/25789.jpg?v=1534803967)
St. Petersburg: 1903. First edition in Russian. Inscribed Classic of Immunology. First Russian edition of a classic of immunology, for which the author won a Nobel Prize in 1908, sharing it with Paul Ehrlich. This copy is inscribed (in Russian): "To Joseph Mankovich Krauzman in fond remembrance from Elia M...... Read More about L'immunité dans les maladies infectieuses [title in Russian
Price: $2,000
London: Bohn, 1842; 1854. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Superb Hand-Colored Plates. The "great work" (ODNB) of Samuel Meyrick (1783-1848), antiquary and leading historian and collector of arms and armor. Meyrick's Inquiry into Antient Armour was first published in 1824 and appears here in an expanded edition. Meyrick constructed Goodrich..... Read More about A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, as it existed in Europe, but particularly in England,...
Price: $6,000
New York: Random House, [1985]. First edition, signed by the author on an inserted leaf, with his chop. Presentation binding, signed by the author. Produced in a very small number of copies and not recorded in Groseclose’s comprehensive bibliography. Read More about Texas
Price: $1,250
New York: Privately Printed and Published by The Anglers' Club of New York, 1954. First edition, one of 591 copies. Inscribed to John McDonald. "A collection of the small lures", notes the author on the title page, "on which I have taken many a full basket of friends and good..... Read More about Fishless Days. By Sparse Grey Hackle
Price: $1,000
London: T.C, Newby, 1845. First edition. Sporting Triple-Decker. "The aim has been simply to depicture ... those invigorating scenes connected with our national sports ... " - Preface "Like his contemporaries, 'Nimrod' (C.J. Apperley) and 'Yorkshireman' (Surtees), Mills deserves the foremost recognition amongst the ranks of those versatile scribes, pertaining to..... Read More about The Old Hall; or, Our Hearth and Homestead ... In Three Volumes
Price: $850
London: Methuen & Co, [1927]. Shepard, E.H. Large Paper edition, no. 107 of 200 numbered copies, signed by Milne and Shepard. Printed on hand made paper by Jarrold & Sons Ltd., Norwich. Signed by Milne & Shepard. Read More about Now We Are Six
Price: $4,000
Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1830. First edition, first issue, without the Morris portrait, and before explanatory text was added at p. viii. Schwerdt Copy, with note from Westwood. Milnor served for a number of years as secretary of the Schuylkill Fishing Company, America's oldest angling group, founded in 1732 - indeed..... Read More about An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill. From...
Price: $1,000
![The Works of Monsieur de Moliere [Translated by John Ozell]. Molière, Jean-Baptiste...](/pictures/thumb/223044.jpg?v=1534805128)
London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1714. First collected edition of Molière in English. First Collected Molière in English. The first collected edition in English of the plays of Molìere, with all but two of the translations by John Ozell (d. 1743), one of the most important translators of the first..... Read More about The Works of Monsieur de Moliere [Translated by John Ozell
Price: $4,000
New York: Edwin C. Hill, 1910. The Emerson Edition, #97 of 250 sets. VERY FINE SET. Read More about The Works of…with an Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Price: $2,500
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First edition, first printing. Read More about A Marianne Moore Reader
Price: $400
[New York: Privately Printed, 1880; 1881]. One of a few copies printed. A Shakespeare New York Calendar: "...one of a few copies printed..." Rare and charming little calendars compiled by this New York antiquarian, member of the New York Historical Society, and co-founder of the Bradford Club, which was a...... Read More about Events in the History of New York City with Illustrations from Shakespeare by a New Yorker
Price: $850
London: Printed for the Proprietors. Published by Alex. Hogg, [1794]. First edition, second issue, with new title page, and some alterations in the preliminary matter. The New Wonderful Magazine. Marvels, prodigies, oddities, whimsical anecdotes, bizarre tales, all wonderfully illustrated in this rare delight, which surely must be one of the..... Read More about The New Wonderful Magazine, and Marvellous Chronicle of Extraordinary Productions, Events, and...
Price: $5,000
![Carte de visite portrait of Tawhiao, 2nd Maori King, captioned “Tawahio [sic] the Maori...](/pictures/thumb/232384.jpg?v=1534805393)
[New Zealand: ca. 1890]. The 2nd King of the Maoris: a Rare Carte-de-Visite. A rare care-de-visite portrait of Tawhiao (c. 1822-1894), the 2nd Maori King, who “…left a legacy of religious principles from which his people would draw a future dream for Tainui: the rebirth of a self-sufficient economic base..... Read More about Carte de visite portrait of Tawhiao, 2nd Maori King, captioned “Tawahio [sic] the Maori King”
Price: $1,250
New York: April 3, 1934. Read More about Portrait photograph of Ramón Novarro
Price: $800
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition, no. 87 of 775 copies signed by the author. Read More about Strange Interlude
Price: $300
[New York]: Pach Brothers, n.d. [c. 1978?]. Rare and Early Oates Portrait. A fine, early, portrait of the young author -- one of America's most gifted writers of the latter half of the 20th century -- by the historic commercial New York photography studio, the Pach Brothers. Oates won the..... Read More about Bust Portrait of Joyce Carol Oates, signed ("Joyce Carol Oates"
Price: $1,000