Spring into new arrivals! James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of newly catalogued inventory representing a wide range of collecting interests. Highlights include the original van Gulik polychrome block print used for the bookcover of Dee Gong An; a dramatic rendering of the death of Colonel Shaw and his 54th Massachusetts African American troops at Fort Wagner; and a first edition, first printing of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
Rochester: Susan B. Anthony, 1887. Second editions of vols. 1-2, first edition of vol. 3. Each volume inscribed by Anthony to suffragist Annie McLean Marsh. Each Volume Inscribed. Sometimes referred to as the "bible" of the suffrage movement, Anthony's History of Woman suffrage comprises "a vast compendium of reminiscences, reports..... Read More about History of Woman Suffrage
Price: $17,500
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Picasso, Pablo. Limited edition, No 1452 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY PICASSO; prospectus laid-in. One of the most ribald works of antiquity, illustrated with Picasso’s magnificent etchings and drawings. This is “the only American publication with original Picasso etchings, which are among his..... Read More about Lysistrata
Price: $6,000
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1985. First edition. A fine copy of the true first, signed. The true first edition, preceding both the UK and US first editions, signed by the author on the title page. Winner of the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award..... Read More about The Handmaid's Tale
Price: $3,750
New York & Philadelphia: J. J. Audubon and [vols. I-V] J. B. Chevalier, 1839-40-44. First octavo edition. First octavo edition of Audubon's “Great National Work”, the first complete edition and the first American edition; the original double-elephant folio was published in Edinburgh and London between 1827 and 1838. A very..... Read More about The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
Price: $85,000
London: Smith, Elder & Co., Cornhill. Edinburgh: A.C. Black, 1843. Firast Edition. Read More about Historical and Descriptive Account of South Australia, founded on the Experience of a Three...
Price: $300
Paris: Gallimard, [1959]. First edition, review copy, marked S.P. on back cover. From Blanchot to Marcel Arland, future immortel. Inscribed on the half title by the author, “Pour Marcel Arland avec une forte amitié Blanchot”. Marcel Arland (1899-1986) won the prix Goncourt in 1929 for L'Ordre and was awarded the..... Read More about Le Livre à venir
Price: $1,250
Buenos Aires: Emecé, [1978]. Second revised edition. Inscribed by Borges and Vázquez. Collection of essays by Borges on Anglo-Saxon, German, and Scandinavian literature, a subject close to Borges' heart. Inscribed on the half-title to Carlos Alberto Gomez in the hand of Borges' collaborator, Vázquez, with good wishes for the new..... Read More about Literaturas Germánicas Medievales
Price: $950
New York: Something Else Press, Inc, 1969. First edition. First edition in dust jacket of a seminal post-war avant-garde book. A collection of music manuscripts, graphical scores, and facsimiles of holographs from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts with text by 269 composers, and with notes by Cage. Read More about Notations. John Cage
Price: $1,800
New York: September 7, 1737. On a Controversial Election. Colden (1688-1776) a physician and natural scientist, served as the first colonial representative to the Iroquois Confederacy and author of The History of Five Indian Nations (1727), and later as member of the provincial council, lieutenant governor and other positions of..... Read More about Autograph letter signed, to his wife, on the contentious election of 1737 and other news from New...
Price: $1,250
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802. First edition. A Foundational Work of American Medicine. Raised by his grandfather, Dr. John Redman, Coxe received his education in England, including courses in anatomy and chemistry at London Hospital. Upon returning to Philadelphia in 1790, Coxe studied under Dr. Benjamin Rush and received a medical..... Read More about Practical Observations on Vaccination: or Inoculation for the Cow-Pocke
Price: $5,000
[California]: March 31, 1972. Signed by Didion and Krementz. A portrait of Didion in the house at 33428 Pacific Coast Highway that she and John Gregory Dunne moved to in 1971, and where they lived with their daughter Quintana Roo until 1978. Fleeing the paranoia of Hollywood in the wake..... Read More about Joan Didion at Home in Malibu
Price: $8,000
[California]: March 31, 1972. Signed by Didion and Krementz. A portrait of Didion in the house at 33428 Pacific Coast Highway that she and John Gregory Dunne moved to in 1971, and where they lived with their daughter Quintana Roo until 1978. Fleeing the paranoia of Hollywood in the wake..... Read More about Joan Didion at Home in Malibu
Price: $8,000
[California]: March 31, 1972. Signed by Didion and Krementz. A portrait of Didion in the house at 33428 Pacific Coast Highway that she and John Gregory Dunne moved to in 1971, and where they lived with their daughter Quintana Roo until 1978. Fleeing the paranoia of Hollywood in the wake..... Read More about Joan Didion at Home in Malibu
Price: $8,000
[California]: March 31, 1972. Signed by Didion and Krementz. A portrait of Didion in the house at 33428 Pacific Coast Highway that she and John Gregory Dunne moved to in 1971, and where they lived with their daughter Quintana Roo until 1978. Fleeing the paranoia of Hollywood in the wake..... Read More about Joan Didion at Home in Malibu
Price: $15,000
[California]: March 31, 1972. Signed by Didion and Krementz. A portrait of Didion in the house at 33428 Pacific Coast Highway that she and John Gregory Dunne moved to in 1971, and where they lived with their daughter Quintana Roo until 1978. Fleeing the paranoia of Hollywood in the wake..... Read More about Joan Didion at Home in Malibu
Price: $15,000
Tokyo: Gaikokugo Kenkyusha, 1932. Eibun Shaku Chu Sosho. Vol. 12.; Title-page in Japanese; English and Japanese text on opposite pages. Japanese Alice, bilingual edition. Translated by Saisuke Nagasawa. Read More about 不思議の國のアリス / Fushigi no kuni no Arisu (Alice's adventures in Wonderland in Japanese
Price: $2,000
Cincinnati: Press of Jennings & Graham, (1905). Third edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Edwards above the dedication. Presentation Copy in Dust Jacket. Rare in such fine condition and in the dust jacket. Read More about In to the Yukon
Price: $850
London: Thomas Tegg, 1824. With a foreedge painting of City Hall by Miss Currie, with a calligraphic notation signed by Currie on the front blank: "This is No. 33 of the Books with Foreedge Paintings by Miss Currie. The Painting under the gold is a view of CIty Hall New..... Read More about A History of New York, from the Beginning the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty ... by...
Price: $4,500
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1934. First edition, Fourth Impression. ‘Many shall be restored that are now fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor’. Few published works of the 20th century have exerted the influence or had as devoted a following as Security Analysis. Prior to its..... Read More about Security Analysis. Principles and Technique
Price: $2,250
London: The Bodley Head, [1975]. First edition, no. 58 of 250 copies signed by the author (only nos. 81-250 were offered for sale). Nice copy of this late Greene whimsy, from the sequence of copies for presentation, with a loosely inserted Typed Letter from Greene (dictated; signed by secretary), 14..... Read More about The Return of A.J. Raffles; an Edwardian comedy in three acts based somewhat loosely on E.W....
Price: $600
![Item #353901 Dee Goong An. [Original polychrome block print for the book cover]. R. H. van Gulik](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353901.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690413745)
[Tokyo: Printed for the author by Toppan Printing Company, 1949]. Fine specimen of the striking, richly colored blockprint by van Gulik used as the covers of his landmark translation of Dee Gong An, printed for the author in 1949, the work that inspired the scholar-diplomat-author’s acclaimed Judge Dee novels. One..... Read More about Dee Goong An. [Original polychrome block print for the book cover
Price: $1,000
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1888. First edition, boards issue. Read More about Maiwa's Revenge Or, The War of the Little Hand
Price: $200
London: Macmillan and Co, 1923. First edition. Read More about The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse
Price: $125
[New York]: Appearances Press/ Published by the Artist, Appearances Magazine, and The Beards Foundation, 1981. First edition, first printing, of the artist's first book. KEITH HARING'S FIRST BOOK. A scarce publication in the first printing, with 1981 copyright (also seen in a later edition, published by Appearances Press, with a...... Read More about Keith Haring
Price: $2,000
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Read More about The Scarlet Letter. A Romance
Price: $3,500
San Francisco: C. Frusher Howard, 1874. First Edition. Read More about Howard's California Calculator The Newest, Quickest and most Complete Instructor for all who...
Price: $125
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1934. First edition. Hurston's first book. Hurston's first book, an autobiographical novel, tells the story of her father, John Hurston, as he and his wife migrate from Alabama to Eatonville, FL, the first all-Black incorporated town in America, where Zora Neale grew up. She published articles..... Read More about Jonah's Gourd Vine
Price: $4,500
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. First Edition, (presumed) later state of the binding. First binding state with "James R. Osgood and Company" on spine. Published the same year as A Passionate Pilgrim, copies of this first impression (1500 copies per Edel and Laurence, or 1578 per Blanck) were..... Read More about Transatlantic Sketches
Price: $450
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1986. Ballagh, Robert. #993 of 1000 copies. SIGNED by the photographer and by Flanagan on the colophon page. Read More about Dubliners. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan
Price: $400
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. Matisse, Henri. First Edition thus. Number 398 of 1500 copiers, signed by Matisse. With six soft ground etchings by Matisse created for this edition, with reproductions of his preliminary drawings. One of the finest productions of the Limited Editions Club. Read More about Ulysses. With an Introduction by Stuart Gilbert
Price: $5,000
New York: 1956. Commemorating the Second Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. "King delivered this sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, headquarters of the Episcopal diocese of New York State, in an ecumenical program commemorating the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision in..... Read More about The Death of Evil Upon the Seashore. A Sermon Preached by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the...
Price: $5,500
![Item #353101 Reminiscensijos [Reminiscences]. Jonas Mekas](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690413506)
New York: Fluxus Editions, 1972. First edition. Numbered 175 of 250. Inscribed by Mekas. Featuring poetry by Mekas with photographs of his native Lithuania. Published the same year as his documentary "Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania," about his return trip to the village where he was born. Read More about Reminiscensijos [Reminiscences
Price: $2,500
New York: Grove Press, Inc, [1958]. First Grove edition, no 11 of a "specially bound, limited edition," of 100 numbered copies. Charles Olson’s substantial essay on Melville’s Moby Dick (originally published in 1947), here with the ownership signature of novelist, war correspondent, and university lecturer William Eastlake (1917-1997). Read More about Call Me Ishmael
Price: $650
Boston: Boston Sunday Herald, 1905. Includes Japanese, Russian, United States, German, Spanish, Egyptian, Turkish and Chinese. Read More about Boy Soldiers of All Nations. Cut-out Series ... Supplement to the Boston Sunday Herald
Price: $200
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1928. First edition. Scarce original 1928 Workers Library Publishers edition. Read More about American Negro Problems
Price: $200
New York: Penguin Boos, [1990]. Unrevised and unpublished proofs of the Penguin 1990 reissue of the author's first book. SIGNED. First book by this British-West Indian writer. Read More about The Final Passage
Price: $100
Letchworth and London: Garden City Press Limited , Printers, 1910. First edition. Women's Suffrage Rarity. The entries by Roberts cover the period from February 4, 1909 to February 3, 1910 and include details of her involvement with Emmeline Pankhurst's Woman’s Social and Political Union and on Marian Wallace-Dunlop's famous hunger..... Read More about Pages from the Diary of a Militant Suffragette
Price: $1,250
New York: Avon, [1964]. First mass-market paperback edition. Inscribed to his father, the villain of this autobiographical novel. Signed and inscribed by Roth to his father: "To my father, Herman Roth / Kennst du das Land? / Henry Roth" in blue ink on verso of front wrap. ("Do you know..... Read More about Call it Sleep
Price: $10,000
New York: Targ Editions, 1979. Limited edition, number 293 of 350 copies signed by author. First book in the Targ Editions series. Inscribed to his sister, Rose. Additionally signed and inscribed by Roth to his sister: "To Rose Broder / my dear Sister / For a chuckle / on her..... Read More about Nature's First Green
Price: $3,500
New York: Pioneer Press, [Printed for the Socialist Workers Party], June 1943. First edition, June 1943. Read More about The Struggle for Negro Equality
Price: $200
Philadelphia: J. L. Smith, 1899. A detailed map with an inset table giving a list of colliers in operation with their outputs. Read More about General Map of the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania and Adjoining Counties Showing the...
Price: $550
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First edition. INSCRIBED. Signed and inscribed to Murray Walch by the author on the ffep on the half-title. Stevens inscriptions are rare. Stevens' magesterial meditation on the relationship between the imagination and reality, delivered as a lecture at Princeton in 1942, while the world..... Read More about The Necessary Angel. Essays on Reality and the Imagination
Price: $9,500
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Baynes, Pauline. First edition, first American printing [H]. Pauline Baynes famously illustrated many early printings of Tolkien's most well known books. In 1967 she illustrated the last of Tolkien's fiction to be published during his lifetime, the short story Smith of Wootton Major. This American..... Read More about Smith of Wooton Major
Price: $200
![Item #353081 What is Art? [in Russian] (Что такое искусство? Chto takoye...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353081.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690413497)
Moscow: I. D. Sytina (И. Д. Сытина), 1898. First Edition. Tolstoy's most forceful essay puts forth a powerful moral vision for art as a necessary part of human experience. He began thinking about it when his daughter, Tanya, became a student at Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1881..... Read More about What is Art? [in Russian] (Что такое искусство? Chto takoye iskusstvo?
Price: $2,000
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1952. Limited edition, designed by P.J. Cockwright. Read More about Did He Steal It?
Price: $250
![Item #353251 [Works] The Warden; Barchester Towers; Doctor Thorne; Framley Parsonage; The Small...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/353251.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690413559)
London: Robert Hayes, Ltd, 1925. Tinley, F.C.; H.L. Shindler; John E. Millais. Collected edition; re-issue of the Routledge series [1904-09]. Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire. Read More about Works] The Warden; Barchester Towers; Doctor Thorne; Framley Parsonage; The Small House at...
Price: $1,500
San Francisco: P.E. Dougherty & Co, 1884. Published to coincide with the centennial of Serra's death, and including biographical information on the padre, as well as a history of the founding of the mission at Monterey. Read More about Padre Junipero Serra and the Mission Church of San Carlos del Carmelo
Price: $250
New York: The Library Fellows of the Whiney Museum, 1991. Steichen, Edward. First edition thus, with Updike's essay, of a 1930 publication, limited to 250 copies signed by Updike and Mary Steichen Calderone. Read More about The First Picture Book: Everyday Things for Babies
Price: $850
New York: Published at the Office of the Free Enquirer, 1829; Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1836. First editions of both volumes. Rare First Editions of Both Volumes. Born in Scotland, radical reformer, abolitionist, feminist, and utopian socialist Fanny Wright first came to America in 1818. After a few years..... Read More about Course of Popular Lectures, as Delivered by Frances Wright, in New-York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,...
Price: $8,500