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.
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1935. First edition. First edition of Nelson Algren's first book inscribed by the author to Matthew Monahan of Gotham Book Mart. Ed Landberg was the founder of the Berkeley Cinema Guild and Studio in Berkeley California in the late 1950s, during which he was partners..... Read More about Somebody in Boots
Price: $1,750
London: John Baskett, 1721-1739. First Collected Laws of Barbadoes. The first two compilations of the laws of Barbadoes. The two leaves following the first continues the laws with a note in the margin that the original was lost and not submitted to the plantation office until 1724. Presumably these leaves..... Read More about Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Barbadoes, From 1648, to 1718 ... [Bound with:] Acts of...
Price: $3,500
[1965]. Signed by Beckett. Read More about Photograph of the author, Signed
Price: $2,000
New York: Simon & Schuster, [1939]. Later issue. With twelve girls on the illustration to "They went home and broke their bread", but with title page undated below the Simon & Shuster imprint. Read More about Madeline
Price: $1,450
London: Printed by J. M'Creery and sold by Payne and Foss, and R. Hunter, 1817. First editions. The Papers mark the beginnings of Bentham's work on his Constitutional Code. The work consists principally of letters from Bentham, written from 1811 to 1815, many concerning America and Russia, including correspondence with..... Read More about Papers relative to Codification and Public Instruction: including Correspondence with the Russian...
Price: $500
London: John Baskett, 1719. First edition. First Collected Laws of Bermuda. Read More about Acts of Assembly, Made and Enacted in the Bermuda, or Summer-Islands, From 1690, to 1713-14
Price: $3,500
New York & London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons…The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. First Edition. SIGNED. Signed by Bierce of the ffep. Read More about Fantastic Fables
Price: $4,500
Washington, D.C: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1891. First edition. Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1894), a descendant of Signer of the Declaration Charles Carroll and the daughter of the Governor of Maryland, became active in politics in the 1850s as a member of the Know-Nothing party and a supporter of Millard Fillmore..... Read More about A Military Genius. Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland, ("The great unrecognized member of...
Price: $300
Barcelona: Seix Barral, February 1996. First edition. A darkly-comic fictional encyclopedia or anthology of right-wing literary figures in the Americas. It is structured as a series of biographical sketches of major figures, followed by a glossary of further writers, publishers, periodicals, and a bibliography of works. The authors and works..... Read More about La literatura nazi en América
Price: $900
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1793. Translation of Boudier de Villemert's L'ami des Femmes, first published anonymously in Paris in 1758; the first American edition was published by Dunlap in 1771. Read More about The Ladies' Friend; being a Treatise on the Virtues and Qualifications, which are the Brightest...
Price: $350
Boston: Little, Browen anbd Comapny, 1863. First Edition. George S. Boutwell was first the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service. Read More about A Manual of the Direct and Excise Tax System of the United States Including the Forms and...
Price: $750
Vp: 1902-1920. Typescripts Typescript by Burroughs, corrected in holograph by Fisher, titled in pencil by Fisher, "Fuss & Feathers". 5pp. See The Writings of John Burroughs, vol. XX, chap. IV. Typescript poem attributed to Burroughs with a holograph pencil correction, apparently unpublished, a love poem titled The Eternal Feminine, beginning..... Read More about Archive of letters, typescripts, photographs and other material relating to Burroughs and Dr. G....
Price: $5,000
London: W. H. J. Carter, [circa 1860]. Brunel's Great Eastern was launched in 1858, but was damaged by an explosion on her maiden voyage. After only a half-dozen years as a passenger ship she was converted to a cable-laying ship, laying the first lasting transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865. Ironically..... Read More about On Board the Great Eastern ... [Suite of 4 hand colored lithographs depicting the hazards of...
Price: $2,000
London: Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774 & 1777. First Edition; First Issue. First Edition of Chesterfield's Letters WITH Supplement. Read More about Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to his...
Price: $2,500
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956; 1956; 1957; 1958. First American Editions. In Presentation Bindings. We have had and seen one other deluxe set of this edition, done for the president of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Read More about A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New...
Price: $5,400
Boston: James R. Osgood & Co, 1882. First American edition. Read More about The Prince and the Pauper. A Tale for Young People of All Ages by Mark Twain
Price: $2,100
[1997]. Manuscript broadside of Collin's poem by the American Color Field painter Dan Christensen, whom Clement Greenberg called "one of the painters on whom the course of American art depends". Included is a 1997 TLS from Christensen to the original owner, noting that the poem comes from Collins's 1995 collection..... Read More about Manuscript Broadside of the poem, "Horizon" by Billy Collins
Price: $1,000
London: Sptimus Prowett, 23, Old Bond Street, 1825. Large Paper. A New Edition: with additional Notres and Corrections, by the Late Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist and the Editor. Read More about A Select Collection of Old Plays
Price: $1,250
New York: Random House, [1951]. First Edition, first state with grey stained top edge and misspelling of Chocktaw on p. 21; in first state jacket with E. McKnight Kauffer's name written incorrectly. Poet X.J. Kennedy's Copy. Signed Joe Kennedy on ffep and annotated throughout, with a synopsis of the story..... Read More about Requiem for a Nun
Price: $650
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. First edition, first impression, first issue, first state. A very pretty copy of Fleming’s second novel, written in just two months at his Goldeneye estate, before the reviews of the first Bond novel, Casino Royale, landed. Read More about Live and Let Die
Price: $25,000
London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition, first impression. A nice, unrestored, copy of the third Bond novel, with a great dinner scene that belies the later movie myth that Bond was just a martini man. Noel Coward read the proofs in Jamaica and called it “the best thing he has..... Read More about Moonraker
Price: $6,000
New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1919]. Second American edition, first edition thus, first illustrated edition, limited to 500 copies on "British Hand Made Paper" FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF "NORTH OF BOSTON" (1919 IN DUST JACKET). Read More about NORTH OF BOSTON. Pictures by James Chapin
Price: $900
London: Printed by A. Clark, and are to be sold by John Martyn, Robert Horn and Walter Kettilby, 1677. Third edition, and first edition thus, "Enlarged by the Author, with a New and Accurate Map" First Description of the Spanish Territories in the New World by an Englishman. Originally published..... Read More about The New Survey of the West-Indies: Or, The English American his Travel by Sea and Land:...
Price: $2,250
London: Printed by Sanders Phillips & Co. Limited./ The Baynard Press ChryssellRd, [1922]. First edition of Robert Gibbings' rare first book, written in collaboration with his wife Moira Gibbings. THOMAS BALSTON'S COPY. Signed and dated by scholar Thomas Balston on verso of front cover ["T. Balston/ April 1922"]. Robert Gibbings..... Read More about The Zoo Described and Illustrated by Moira and Robert Gibbings
Price: $9,500
New York: Harper & Row, 1987. First edition, limited to 250 copies, signed by Glass and numbered, this 165. Signed, Limited edition. Includes facsimile of the composer's original score of the Prelude to Akhnaten (4 pp.), as well as librettos of Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, and Akhnaten. Read More about Music by Philip Glass. Edited and with Supplementary Material by Robert T. Jones
Price: $500