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

  • Civil War

    Civil War

    James Cummins Bookseller is pleased to offer a selection of printed and manuscript Civil War Americana, including new acquisitions and with material from a variety of collecting interests and price points. Highlights include the first separate printing of the Gettysburg Address, a collection of Confederate imprints from the "Rebel Archives," and the Metropolitan Police record of the Draft Riots in New York.

  • Counterculture

    Counterculture

    We are pleased to present a catalogue of counterculture books and prints. From the revolutionary fringes and the far-flung expanse of the inner mind, beyond the thresholds upheld by the status quo, this selection is a thrilling survey of boundary pushing psychonauts and freedom fighters. We invite you to take a walk on the wild side with our counterculture rarities, yippies and squares alike. Turn on. Tune in. Drop out.

  • New Arrivals Summer 2022

    New Arrivals Summer 2022

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of newly catalogued inventory. From a first edition of Dune by Frank Herbert to the landmark work by Strickland and Melville which marks the scientific and popular rediscovery of the extinct Dodo, you are sure to find something of interest in this list. 

  • The Hogarth Press

    The Hogarth Press

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present our newest catalogue, an extensive and interesting collection of the celebrated Hogarth Press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. There are many notable titles, including Roger Fry’s Men of Europe, one of the earliest books of the Omega Workshop; Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse; the first English edition of Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents; Roger Fry’s Twelve Original Woodcuts; and Christopher Isherwood’s Sally Bowles

  • New Arrivals Spring 2022

    New Arrivals Spring 2022

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of newly catalogued inventory. From a rare collection of photographs likely developed and assembled all by Avedon himself to the first printing of Ulysses, you are sure to find something of interest in this list. We invite you to take a look at the highlights below and make sure to check out the entire catalogue.

  • Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books

    Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books, which as many of you now know we bought in partnership with Between the Covers Rare Books. For more than forty years Gary Oleson and Francine Ness operated privately as Waiting for Godot Books, specializing, as the name may indicate, in literature, but also in various other fields. They were also serious collectors of art and photography. This list – one of many to come, including a.... more about Art from the collection of Waiting for Godot Books
  • Authors' First Books

    Authors' First Books

    James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a list of authors' first books. There are several notable literary debuts such as Matthew Arnold's Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem, Recited in Rugby School, John Steinbeck's Cup of Gold, Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, and The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker.

  • Bibliography and Books about Books: Bookbinding and Papermaking

    Bibliography and Books about Books: Bookbinding and Papermaking

    If there is something we all share here at James Cummins Bookseller, it’s an appreciation for the art of the book. Our latest list of Books about Books includes titles on bookbinding and papermaking drawn from a large private collection and ranging from the early history of American papermaking to Twentieth Century marbling as well as catalogues of the finest historical bindings. Among the notable titles are Papermaking by Hand in America by Dard Hunter, La Reliure du XIXe Siecle...1895-1897 by Henri Beraldi, and 254... more about Bibliography and Books about Books: Bookbinding and Papermaking

  • African Americana February 2022

    African Americana February 2022

    As February comes to a close, James Cummins Bookseller is proud to offer a catalogue of our fine inventory of African Americana that reflects the depth and significance of Black history and culture. Our selection includes The Limited Editions Club The First Book of Moses illustrated by Jacob Lawrence, the scarce provincial edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself , a portrait of W. E. B. du Bois by Carl Van Vechten, and more.

  • California International Antiquarian Book Fair 2022

    California International Antiquarian Book Fair 2022

    The California International Antiquarian Book Fair opens tomorrow and we are thrilled to see some of you again in person in Booth 504. But for those of you who can’t attend, we’ve put together a selection of what we will be exhibiting, including new acquisitions in Americana, African-Americana, Literature, Art, Photography, and Science.