A lifelong collector, Jim started James Cummins Bookseller in 1978 after running the rare book department at Brentano's. He is a prominent and well respected figure in the antiquarian book world and a fixture at aucti...
James began work at Maggs Bros in London after college and continued at Bloomsbury Auctions as the head of Bibliophile sales in New York. He joined the fold in 2009 and runs operations in New York. In 2022 James becam...
Henry Wessells has been working at James Cummins Bookseller since July 2000. Before that, he was managing editor of AB Bookman’s Weekly, where he worked from 1996 to 1999; he attended the Colorado Antiquarian Book Sem...
Jeremy Markowitz has spent over twenty years buying and selling rare books, maps and manuscripts. After receiving an MA in American History, he worked in the auction world for nine years before moving to the retail s...
Chris Shultz studied literature and philosophy at Vanderbilt University, and has a master’s in library science from CUNY Queens College. He started working in rare books in 2010 for Lame Duck Books, and joined James...
Lauren Walsh has been a specialist in modern literature, archives, design, art, and photography for over 12 years. Among her many successful projects have been the institutional placements of the papers of Leonor Fini...
Amanda joined James Cummins Bookseller in 2021. Before that, she worked in the marketing department at Viking, Penguin Books, Penguin Classics and Riverhead where she had the pleasure of working on contemporary and cl...
