![The Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton ... to which is added an Introductory Essay; The Linnean Arrrangement of the Various River Fish delineated in the Work [And:] The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson …](http://www.jamescumminsbookseller.com/pictures/thumb/212956.jpg?v=1534804805)
The Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles...
London: John Major, 1824; 1825. Second Major edition of first title; First Major edition of second title. Read More
Price: $2,250
Private Press
Private press books with a focus on the Derrydale Press, the Hakluyt Society, the Ashendene Press, Eric Gill, William Morris, the Kelmscott Press, the Grabhorn Press and the Limited Editions Club.
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Chemical Change in the Eucharist. In four letters shewing the relations of faith to sense from the French of Jacquws...
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston...for the Editor, [1867]. Printed Whittingham & Wilkins at the Chiswick Press. Anti-Catholic rant against Transubstantiation.
Price: $125
The Creation. Lines from the Old Testament and From Paradide Lost.
Manchester: [1977]. Number 90 of 135 copies sgned by the Artist printed on Jaopanese paper.
Price: $250
Radical Literature in America An Address by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. To Which Is Appended a Catalogue of an Exhibition...
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939. Limited edition of 650.
Price: $150
The Three-Cornered Hat.
New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1944. Kredel, Fritz. One of 500 copies printed by hand by Victor & Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press. The first book the Hammers printed at Wells College. Holbrook notes that the charming Kredel woodcuts are colored “in some copies”, as here —...
Price: $300
The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies.
Price: $250
The Allen Press Bibliography. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date ….
San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1985. Reprint edition, one of 750 copies.
Price: $300
The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond.
[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies.
Price: $300
The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852. Foreword by George P. Hammond.
[Kenftfield, Ca.]: Printed and Published by Mallette Dean [Laid out and designed at the Allen Press], 1959. Dean, Mallette. One of 200 copies.
Price: $400
The Temptation of Saint Anthony. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn and Edited by Francis Carmody.
Kentfield, Ca: The Allen Press, 1974. One of 140 copies.
Price: $400
Christopher Columbus.
Kentfield, Calif: The Allen Press, 1972. One of 140 copies designed, printed, and published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen.
Price: $600
The Private Journals of Stendahl, 1811-1817. Selected & Newly Translated by Francis Carmody.
Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1954. Dean, Malette. One of 175 copies. The typeface is Romanée, set by hand: the paper is Crown & Sceptre, hand-made in England. Printed on an Acorn Press.
Price: $350
La Porte de Malétroit.
Cagne-sur-Mer, France: The L-D Allen Press, 1952. One of 300 copies.
Price: $300
Heraldry of New Helvetia, with Thirty-Two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter's Fort...
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. One of 250 Copies. The fourth book issued by the Allen Press.
Price: $400
Heraldry of New Helvetia, with Thirty-Two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter's Fort...
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1945. One of 250 copies. The fourth book issued by the Allen Press.
Price: $425
The Noble Knight Paris & the Fair Vienne. (Translated from the French by William Caxton).
[Kentfield, Calif: Allen Press, 1956]. Dean, Mallette , & Dorothy Allen. One of 130 copies set in Van Krimpen's Romanee types on Val de Laga French paper.
Price: $400
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Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, first state, No. 222 of 332 copies, signed by the author on the title page. Superior Copy. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry.
Price: $350
Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, second state, no. 25 of 166 copies [first state, signed by author on title, consisted of 332 copies]. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry; very scarce.
Price: $375
The Miracle of Birds. Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello.
New York: Targ Editions, 1983. First edition in English, one of 250 copies, signed by the Author.
Price: $90
Odaria. Ad textus Bernesiani fidem emendata.
London: William Bulmer, 1802. Bulmer's Greek type is perfectly complemented by the simple head and tailpiece vignettes.
Price: $250
The River Dove. With some Quiet Thoughts on the Happy Practice of Angling.
London: William Pickering, 1847. First Pickering edition, reprinted from the 1845 privately printed edition. Colloquy on angling after the fashion of Izaac Walton and Charles Cotton, by a noted collector of Walton and Johnsoniana With 2-page ad for Pickering's "Books on Angling" at the front.
Price: $350
The Nightingale. Translation by H.W. Dulcken.
Boston: Berkley Updike, The Merrymount Press, 1896. French-fold.
Price: $250
The Snow Queen. A Tale of Seven Stories. Translated by Patricia L. Conroy and Sven H. Rossel. Postscript by Erik...
Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen, 1986. One of 26 copies (none for sale, signed by the artist.) Printed in linophoto Baskerville.
Price: $400
Tally Ho! 400 Years of Foxhunting Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings from the collection of Duncan Andrews.
[New York]: An Exhibition at the Grolier Club, December 10, 1975 - January 17, 1976. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed at the Harbor Press. A fine exhibition of sporting books with very informed comments by Mr. Andrews, a preeminent collector of sporting books. Now a standard reference.
Price: $50
Inscribed by Valenti
Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book.
Bronxville, New York: Valenti Angelo, 1952. Angelo, Valenti. Number 16 of 75 copies. Inscribed by Valenti. Inscribed "For Fanny Duschnes with all my best Valenti Angelo." Printed on the handpress by Valenti Angelo.
Price: $250