New Arrivals January 2023

New Arrivals January 2023

Happy New Year! At James Cummins Bookseller, we are pleased that you trust us with your collecting endeavors, and are excited for what the next year has in store. Our first catalogue of 2023 is an eclectic list of newly catalogued inventory, including a rare Hunting with Rifle and Camera in the Canadian Rockies by Joseph McAleenan; a 1793 invitation to a Washington birthday celebration in Newport, Rhode Island; a first edition of Darkwater by W. E. B. Du Bois; and a rare first edition of J. J. Grandville's Comical People.

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Item #346674 Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the...

Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the Kowaliga School for Colored Youth.

Kowaliga, Alabama: August 22, 1912. The letter begins: "Imagine in a remote rural community of Alabama, one thousand colored men, women and children 'leveling up' by means of the school-life which the name at the top of this letter-head signifies ... The uplifting influence of this unique work is all..... Read More about Typed letter signed, to Miss C. Livingston of Manitou, NY, soliciting funds for the Kowaliga...

Price: $500

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Item #346917 Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. Author of "Jane Eyre." Charlotte Bronte

"SHIRLEY": 'LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS' ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS

Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. Author of "Jane Eyre."

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1850 [actually published November, 1849]. First American edition, Harper & Brothers' 'Library of Select Novels' issue ("octavo edition in wrappers" printed in two columns), in publisher's boards. "SHIRLEY": 'LIBRARY OF SELECT NOVELS' ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. An elusive title in this Library of Select..... Read More about Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell. Author of "Jane Eyre."

Price: $950

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Item #346605 De Shootinest Gent'man and other tales. Introduction by Col. Harold P. Sheldon. Nash...

Inscribed

De Shootinest Gent'man and other tales. Introduction by Col. Harold P. Sheldon.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, edition of 950 copies, this copy unnumbered and marked for Review. Inscribed. First edition of one of the most beloved books of American sporting stories. The title story was first published in Recreation magazine in 1916, collected in John C. Phillips’ Classics..... Read More about De Shootinest Gent'man and other tales. Introduction by Col. Harold P. Sheldon

Price: $1,750

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Item #346672 [Dutch Gap Canal and group of soldiers including an African American solider at the...

[Dutch Gap Canal and group of soldiers including an African American solider at the left holding a rope].

Circa 1865. Located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the canal's 1864-65 construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island which was controlled by Confederate artillery. Miller reproduces this image..... Read More about Dutch Gap Canal and group of soldiers including an African American solider at the left holding a...

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Item #346415 Album of hunting and camping trips in Colorado, ca. 1890, including deer, elk, and...

Album of hunting and camping trips in Colorado, ca. 1890, including deer, elk, and bear hunts.

[n.d., 1890s]. An excellent album of photographs of outdoor Colorado at the turn of the century, including railroad, ranch, and mountain scenes, a rural graveyard, and several hunting and camping trips in the back country in summer and winter. A summer bear hunt shows two pelts; the winter bear hunt..... Read More about Album of hunting and camping trips in Colorado, ca. 1890, including deer, elk, and bear hunts

Price: $2,250

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Item #346858 Connellsville Coal and Coke Region from Latrobe, Westmoreland County, PA to...

The Golden Age of King Coal, Queen Coke and Princess Steel

Connellsville Coal and Coke Region from Latrobe, Westmoreland County, PA to Fairchance, Fayete County, PA.

Pittsburgh: John H. Campbell & Co. [The Armor Lithographing Company], 1883. The Golden Age of King Coal, Queen Coke and Princess Steel. A very rare and detailed cadastral map, identifying the land holdings in the coke producing region (including those of H.C. Frick Coke Co.) but also naming towns, railroad..... Read More about Connellsville Coal and Coke Region from Latrobe, Westmoreland County, PA to Fairchance, Fayete...

Price: $4,500

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Item #346776 An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel...

An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the President of the...

Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1800. First edition. The present work concerns the trial and subsequent imprisonment of Thomas Cooper, an Englishman by birth who loved in Northumberland, Pennsylvania and worked as a lawyer and newspaper editor, for violating the Alien and Sedition Act. In 1799, he had requested John Adams to..... Read More about An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland; on a charge of libel against the...

Price: $3,000

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Item #346268 Four Quartets. T. S. Eliot

Four Quartets.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. First edition, second impression; (one of 3500 copies), without "First American Edition" on copyright page and without publisher's codes in brackets present in later impressions, with two later edition dustjackets with prices of $2.25 and nine titles on back panel, and $2.50 with..... Read More about Four Quartets

Price: $500

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Item #346897 Comical People. Illustrated with Sixteen Pictures taken from the Embroidered...

Comical People. Illustrated with Sixteen Pictures taken from the Embroidered Tapestry contributed by Maria Fusinata, of Belluno, to the Great...

London: David Bogue, 1852. First edition. Choice English adaptation of the beast-headed people of French master J.J. Grandville, here in the light of the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. The illustrations are wood-engravings, mainly drawn by H.G. Hine and engraved by various hands,including S. & A. Slader, H. Vizetelly..... Read More about Comical People. Illustrated with Sixteen Pictures taken from the Embroidered Tapestry contributed...

Price: $750

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Item #346645 Greenleaf's New York Journal &c. Extra ... The Democratic Society of this city...

Beginnings of American Populism

Greenleaf's New York Journal &c. Extra ... The Democratic Society of this city having received last evening the papers accompanying...

New York: Thomas Greenleaf, April 30, 1794. Beginnings of American Populism. The populism of the French Revolution arose in the nascent United States largely in the formation of Democratic Societies. "In their brief career, the societies and their activities provoked considerable controversy. By organizing public or semi-public discussions of political..... Read More about Greenleaf's New York Journal &c. Extra ... The Democratic Society of this city having...

Price: $2,400

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Item #346372 John Kearsley Mitchell, III. Millionaire Muderer- The Tragedy of the Big Rubber Man...

Who killed the Broadway Butterfly?

John Kearsley Mitchell, III. Millionaire Muderer- The Tragedy of the Big Rubber Man and the Little Laundress-Cabaret Girl.

Montreal, P.Q., Canada: J.C. Hackett, 1932. Second edition. Who killed the Broadway Butterfly? In 1922 John Kearsley Mitchell, III, a millionaire and the president of the Philadelphia Rubber Works who was married to the daughter of Edward T. Stotesbury (a Philadelphia partner of J .P. Morgan) met Dorothy "Dot" King..... Read More about John Kearsley Mitchell, III. Millionaire Muderer- The Tragedy of the Big Rubber Man and the...

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Item #346602 Night Fears and other stories. L. P. Hartley

First Book, Inscribed

Night Fears and other stories.

London: Putnam, 1924. First edition. First Book, Inscribed. Inscribed on the front flyleaf, Isabel Adams from Leslie Hartley. An outstanding copy of the first book from this L.P. Hartley (1895-1972), whose other works included The Go-Between (1953), with the famous opening sentence, “The past is a foreign country: they do..... Read More about Night Fears and other stories

Price: $7,500

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Item #346386 The Little Esop. John Hay, Aesop

INSCRIBED TO HELEN HAY (WHITNEY) FROM HER BROTHER

The Little Esop.

Boston: J. Buffum, 1856. INSCRIBED TO HELEN HAY (WHITNEY) FROM HER BROTHER. inscribed on the front free endpaper by John Hay "Ellie Hay/from her Brother/John/1857" and on the following page the signature of "Miss Helen J.[ulia] Hay, 1857 June 1." Helen Hay Whitney was named after her. Likely first edition..... Read More about The Little Esop

Price: $2,500

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Item #346864 The Warwick Woodlands … By Frank Forester [together with:] My Shooting Box. Henry...

FIRST EDITIONS

The Warwick Woodlands … By Frank Forester [together with:] My Shooting Box.

Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., and Carey & Hart, 1845, 1846. First editions. FIRST EDITIONS. First editions of Forester's famous novels, two of the most sought-after works of American sport. Both were originally issued in wrappers, of which only fragments survive, and both are rare in any condition. This is..... Read More about The Warwick Woodlands … By Frank Forester [together with:] My Shooting Box

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Item #346792 Electric Waves Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric, Action With Finite...

Electric Waves Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric, Action With Finite Velocity through Space. [Preface by Lord Kelvin].

London: Macmillan and Co. and New York, 1893. First Edition in English. Authortized translation by David Evans Jones, B.Sc. PMM: " Experimental proof by Herz of the Farday-Maxwell hypothesis that electrical waves can be projected through space...By inducing the waves to produce an electrical spark at a distance, with no..... Read More about Electric Waves Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric, Action With Finite Velocity...

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Item #351860 Sketches on the Nipisaguit, a river of New Brunswick, B.[ritish] N.[orth] America....

Sketches on the Nipisaguit, a river of New Brunswick, B.[ritish] N.[orth] America.

Halifax, [Nova Scotia] and London: published by John B. Strong ... and Day & Son, 1860. First edition. A rare color-plate view book and authoritative fishing guide. This beautifully illustrated work is a record of a six week fishing and camping trip by the author from Bathurst, New Brunswick, along..... Read More about Sketches on the Nipisaguit, a river of New Brunswick, B.[ritish] N.[orth] America

Price: $8,500

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Item #346904 Ulysses. James Joyce

One of 100 Copies Signed by Joyce

Ulysses.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. No. 99 of 100 copies on mouldmade paper, signed by Joyce. One of 100 Copies Signed by Joyce. Published following the legal success of the 1934 Random House Ulysses trial, which established the principle that a "classic" work was allowed greater flexibility when..... Read More about Ulysses

Price: $42,500

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Item #346296 Poems 1930-1940. Weldon Kees, Horace Gregory

Weldon Kees’ Copy

Poems 1930-1940.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1941]. First edition, stamped on front free endpaper: “Review Copy / Publication Date / April 3 1941.”. Weldon Kees’ Copy. Weldon Kees’ copy with his ownership inscription (name and New York / 1941) on front free endpaper. Presentation copy, inscribed by Gregory also on the front..... Read More about Poems 1930-1940

Price: $700

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