Web Catalogues

Below is a list of our most recently posted online catalogues. If you are interested in receiving our catalouges by mail please call (212) 688-6441 or e-mail us at info@jamescumminsbookseller.com

  • William Cobbett

    William Cobbett

    James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to present a collection of books by English journalist, farmer, and pamphleteer, William Cobbett (1763-1835). Considered one of the most influential radicals of his time, Cobbett was a champion of laborers and the rural poor and an agitator for parliamentary and social reform. Highlights include a first edition of Cobbett's most enduring work, Rural Rides, a colorful and authentic account of the rural English countryside.

  • Americana Fall 2022

    Americana Fall 2022

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to offer a list of Americana featuring a number of new acquisitions and a variety of collecting interests from abolition to sports. Highlights include a scarce and early New Orleans imprint of the Farewell Address, of General Geo. Washington, to the People of the United States, the preferred second edition of the first American collection of The Writings of Thomas Paine, rare Creole poetry by Alexandre Latil titled Les Éphémères, Essais Poétiques,  a presentation copy of Harry E Burgess' God Before the White Man Came inscribed to Pawnee Bill, and... more about Americana Fall 2022

  • A Fall Miscellany

    A Fall Miscellany

    As Fall approaches, James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to present a curated selection handpicked by our staff, including a number of signed books and presentation copies and material from a variety of collecting interests and price points. Highlights include a rare large paper, hand colored first edition of William Howard Russell's The Atlantic Telegraph, a first edition of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India in a scarce dust jacket, the fourth and 'first collected' edition of Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin published in 1769, Winston... more about A Fall Miscellany

  • Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair Highlights

    Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair Highlights

    We can't wait to see some of you in person in stand A3. But for those of you who can’t attend, we’ve put together a small list of some of the highlights we will be exhibiting, including J. E. Brooks' presentation copy of Three Monographs consisting of the fourth, fifth, and sixth of the Capri pamphlets, issued anonymously by Norman Douglas; an exceptional association copy of The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats having belonged successively to Richard Woodhouse, Joseph Severn, and J. Lockhart Clarke;... more about Firsts: London's Rare Book Fair Highlights

  • African Americana September 2022

    African Americana September 2022

    James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a catalogue of our fine inventory of African Americana ranging from abolition to twenty-first century visual art. Highlights include a mint first edition of W. E. B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk, the scarce Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, the revised and corrected History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865, and more. 

  • Irish Literature

    Irish Literature

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to offer a list of Irish Literature featuring works from modernist masterminds and symbolist poets such as Yeats, Beckett, and Joyce. Highlights include Joyce's first printed work "Ibsen's New Drama" [in] The Fortnightly Review, an inscribed first edition of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and Anthony Powell's copy of The Sphinx written by Oscar Wilde and illustrated by Charles Ricketts.

  • Sporting Summer 2022

    Sporting Summer 2022

    In the midst of summer, we are pleased to offer a short list of rare and antiquarian books and ephemera related to angling, field sports, shooting, and other sporting pursuits. Highlights include a first edition of Woodcock Shooting by Edmund W. Davis, a superior third edition of Walton's The Compleat Angler, and the signed deluxe issue of Aintree Grand Nationals — Past and Present, with a dynamic double-page drawing by Paul Brown. There are also several important bibliographies on these topics. 

  • Transportation

    Transportation

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of rare and antiquarian books and ephemera related to transportation, from a scarce study on the development of the omnibus in the 17th century to one of the first authoritative treastise on aerial navigation. Highlights include an inscribed photograph of Wilbur Wright at dusk during one of his seminal exhibitions, signed original art by Cecil Aldin, a rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened with Fowler, Engineer and M.P. Gladstone et al, and a.... more about Transportation

  • Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books: July 2022

    Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books: July 2022

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present our second list of art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books. This list includes the artist's own copy of the very rare The Studio Souvenir of John R. Johnson with original contributions by Walt Whitman, a signed copy of Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother, Ansel Adams' unrecorded Photography Course: Notes of Lectures Given At Museum of Modern Art, New York, one of four hors commerce sets of Jacob Lawrence's Eight Studies [for the Book of Genesis], signed by... more about Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books: July 2022

  • Literature Summer 2022

    Literature Summer 2022

    We are pleased to present a list of newly catalogued literature with highlights such as Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls, inscribed in unrestored dust jacket, Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, first American edition in rare dust jacket, Joan Didion’s Salvador, inscribed to Robert Silvers, André Gide’s manuscript translations of poems by Walt Whitman, E.M. Forster’s Passage to India in dust jacket, and more.