James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of diaries, autobiographies, and memoirs written by a broad range of authors—from the travel diary of a Cleveland heiress to the autobiography of a researcher involved in the field of atomic physics. Highlights include an inscribed first edition of Lillie (Lady de Bathe) Langtry's The Days I Knew; a deluxe first edition of Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant in superior condition; and manuscript diaries of a 19th century New York and New Jersey businessman with lengthy and unusually well-written entries on politics, the Embargo, his loves and a variety of issues.
Dublin: William Porter, 1784. First Dublin edition. Read More about The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Regis: from March 8, 1749, to...
Price: $250
New York: Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1930. First edition. One of 100 copies. Read More about Diary of William Dunlap. The Memoirs of a Dramatist, Theatrical Manager, Painter, Critic,...
Price: $275
London: Waterlow & sons, 1878. First Edition. “Fictitious” — Ayer. Read More about Seven and nine years among the Camaches and Apaches. An Autobiography
Price: $150
Horsham [althouth perhaps Lewes?]: Printed by Arthur Lee; and Sold by J. F. and C. Rivington, 1784. First edition. Published anonymously by a British agent of the East India Company returning from India by the desert route, this very scarce Journal has been attributed by some to Charles Eversfield (one..... Read More about A Journal, kept on a Journey from Bassora to Bagdad; over the Little Desert, to Aleppo, Cyprus,...
Price: $15,000
London: John Murray, 1874. Second edition. Dedicated to Queen Victoria, this volume relates the life of Princess Charlotte (1766-1828), the daughter of George III. The extra plates in the volume include portraits of Princess Charlotte, Queen Victoria, George III, the Prince of Wales (later George IV), Queen Charlotte (consort of..... Read More about Brief Memoir of Princess Charlotte of Wales: with selections from her correspondence and other...
Price: $800
London: For A. Millar, 1755. First edition. First edition of Fielding's last book. Two editions appeared in 1755, with the same title pages: one (this) edition was clearly an edited text; the other version was unedited, and set from the manuscript. The unedited text was suppressed and did not reappear..... Read More about The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, by the Late …
Price: $1,250
![Item #321955 The Minnisink Hunting & Fishing Club. [Album of Photographs]. William L. Fox, etc,...](/pictures/thumb/321955.jpg?v=1669655153)
N.p. [Philadelphia]: n.d. [1914]. Forming a Hunting Club, 1914. Early and interesting photographic record of the Minnisink Hunting & Fishing Club in the eastern Poconos, from the initial survey to construction of a board and batten lodge with stone fireplace to the first autumn hunting trip. The photographs include views..... Read More about The Minnisink Hunting & Fishing Club. [Album of Photographs
Price: $4,000
Garden City, New York: Doubeday, 1952. First American edition. Read More about The Diary of a Young Girl. Translated from the Dutch by B.P. Mooyaart-Doubleday with an...
Price: $750
New York: Samuel Campbell, 1794. Stated on the title as the Second American Edition. "The most widely read of all American autobiographies ... this book holds the essence of the American way of life" (Grolier, American). First published in Paris in French in 1791, the first American edition appearing in..... Read More about Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin; Consisting of His Life, Written by Himself, Together...
Price: $1,750
London: printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond Street, 1820. First edition, Large Paper Issue. Large Paper Copy. Scotsman James Baillie Fraser (1783-1856)and his brother William made the journey through Northern India, Nepal & Tibet. Both were significant artists. James he was the first European to reach Gangotri. They tried to..... Read More about Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of the Himala Mountains, and to the sources of...
Price: $3,000
Trenton, N.J: The J.l. Murphy Pub. Co, 1898, 1898. First edition. Inscribed on ffp "With kind regards to Paul Lupke from Wm. Fulper Mch. 22, 1899." Read More about Diary of William H. Fulper on the Cruise of the U.S.S. "Resolute" with forty tons of...
Price: $200
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by William Heinemann Ltd, 1923. “This edition, printed on english handmade paper, is limited to five hundred and thirty copies …” Copy no. 482 of 530. First issued in 1921 by Boni & Liveright of New York. An elegant production. Read More about Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals. Translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Preface by Emil Gauguin
Price: $375
High Wycombe: Hague Gill & Davey Ltd, 1952. First edition. Read More about From the Palestine Diary of Eric Gill
Price: $1,500
New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885-1886. First edition, the deluxe binding. Deluxe Copy in Superior Condition. The president and Civil War general's remarkable memoir, written in the final years of his life as he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Suffering both physically and financially, as the result of financial..... Read More about Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Price: $3,000
New York: The Dial Press, 1946. First edition. Jackson Pollock Dust-Jacket. Read More about Out of this century. The informal memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim
Price: $450
London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. Amorous Intrigues at the Court of Charles II. First published in English one year after the 1713 French first edition, the Memoirs of Count Grammont is a fascinating account of the court of Charles II during 1662-4; “it is written with such brilliancy and vivacity..... Read More about Memoirs of Count Grammont. Edited with Notes by Sir Walter Scott
Price: $950
New York: Hanuman Books, 1986. First edition. Hanuman Books was a series of books published between 1986 and 1993 out of the Chelsea Hotel in New York City by art critic and editor Raymond Foye and painter Francesco Clemente. Each book featured a significant artist, writer, poet, musician, or filmmaker..... Read More about Taylor Mead: Son of Andy Warhol [Volume Four: Excerpts from the Diary of a New York Youth
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London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. ... and Simpkin and Marshall, 1823. Read More about Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq., the Friend and Biographer of Cowper,...
Price: $550
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. First edition. Edited by Hazlitt. Holcroft's classic autobiography, left unfinished upon his death in 1809, but completed by William Hazlitt using Holcroft's letters, diaries, and other papers. Although his other works are now largely forgotten, the MEMOIRS "helped found the nineteenth-century genre..... Read More about Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft Written By Himself and Continued to the Time of His Death [by...
Price: $750
Boston: Little, Brown, [1969]. First edition, with inserted leaf before the half title, "one of a special edition reserved for friends of the author" Presentation to Johnny Carson, Borrowed by Capote. With a note laid in from the author to Johnny Carson: "That was the nicest time I ever had..... Read More about An Unfinished Woman. A Memoir
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London: Webb & Bower, 1977/1989. LIMITED EDITION, number 1 of 15. Signed by Holden's great niece, Rowena Scott, on the limitation page. Copy no. 1 from an edition of 15. Facsimiles of two manuscript diaries from 1906, reproducing the hand-written text and watercolor illustrations from the originals. Holden, a relatively..... Read More about The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady, and the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
Price: $2,500
The Lower Farm, Ringmore, near Kingsbrige, South Devon: 1893. The Field Family on Holiday. A charming and quite accomplished record of a six-week stay in a farm house in South Devon: the narrative draws on reports of the day from five of the eight Field siblings (all of whom are..... Read More about “The Diary of a Sojourn of eight Fields in South Devon. From July 29th, to September 14th 1893...
Price: $1,000
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1940. Second Impression. Inscribed on ffep "To Mrs. Howard W.H. Jackson Christmas 1940." In 1940 Jackson was 97. He died in 1942. Read More about Time Exposure. The Autobiography of William Henry Jackson
Price: $275
London: Printed for Robert Jennings, 1816. First Edition, issue without Q2 ad leaf. Johnson in Wales. This is the first printing of Johnson’s diary of a trip to Wales which he took with the Thrales in July-August of 1774. The diary was later incorporated into various editions of Boswell’s Life..... Read More about A Diary of a Journey into North Wales, in the Year 1774
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New York: July 1807 to July 1811. Born the son of Revolutionary war officer Captain Henry Johnson, William Johnson "spent his early days in Newton [New Jersey], where his father was one of the founders of the Presbyterian church, and an elder of it from its organization until his death..... Read More about Manuscript diaries of a New York and New Jersey businessman with lengthy and unusually...
Price: $5,500