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

  • Edmund Blunden & Siegfried Sassoon

    Edmund Blunden & Siegfried Sassoon

    A choice collection of works by two great twentieth-century British poets who came to prominence through their literary response to the first World War. This collection includes works inscribed from Blunden to Sassoon, limited editions, a large collection of pamphlets and fugitive material, and many scarce items.

  • Illustrated New Arrivals

    Illustrated New Arrivals

    Some of the most iconic stories have become inseparable from the illustrations that accompany them — think H.K. Browne's engravings for David Copperfield, or John Tenniel's vivid visuals found within Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In our latest catalogue you'll find illustrated books fresh to our shelves, including a gorgeous selection of Rackhams and Aubrey Beardsley's Le Morte Darthur, as seen here.

  • En Vogue

    En Vogue

    Representing the versatility and ever-changing state of clothing design from military uniforms to bulbous crinoline skirts, our latest catalogue contains fashion across the decades, and even centuries.

  • Speak of the Devil

    Speak of the Devil

    Ranging from the occult to the Rolling Stones, our latest catalogue is brimming with demons. Highlights include a signed first edition of The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, the editor's copy of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels, and an inscribed Walt Disney's Fantasia as seen above.

  • Voyages to the East: The Parsons Collection

    Voyages to the East: The Parsons Collection

    In collaboration with William Reese Company, Peter Harrington, and Hordern House, we are pleased to offer the second selection of books from the shelves of the famed collector, David Parsons, concentrated on books of voyages and explorations to the East. As with our first catalogue: The Discovery of America, the books are arranged by order of publication date beginning with Marco Polo and ending with the first complete publication of the key source for Magellan's circumnavigation.

  • Pirates, Swashbucklers, and Seafarers from The Old Mill Bookshop

    Pirates, Swashbucklers, and Seafarers from The Old Mill Bookshop

    From Howard Pyle and Herman Melville to the notable American scoundrel Stephen Burroughs, these tales of pirates and the high seas are sure to capture your imagination. Highlights include an autograph manuscript from a French naval officer in the age of Nelson; a 1662 privy seal warrant issued to future Jamaican privateer, Sir Thomas Whetstone; and a presentation copy of the first American whaling novel, Miriam Coffin.

  • In Her Own Words

    In Her Own Words

    Within our current catalogue you'll find letters, diaries, and autobiography by civil rights activists, suffragists, scientists, and pioneering literary icons like Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and George Eliot.

  • April Arrivals

    April Arrivals

    In addition to May flowers, April showers bring a fresh batch of new arrivals! This diverse list ranges from a complete set of The Works of Benjamin Franklin to My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855), some treasures of English and American poetry, and much more.

  • The Art of the Dust Jacket

    The Art of the Dust Jacket

    From the humble origin of protecting delicate bindings, to the colorful advertising vessels of today, dust jackets have grown to be appreciated for their own artistry. Within our current catalogue you will find the first edition of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises in an especially fine dust jacket, an outstanding copy of Huxley's Brave New World, and an inscribed copy of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

  • Photography

    Photography

    Whether taken as souvenirs of a life well lived or an attempt at documenting troubling times, the impact of photography on history and culture cannot be minimized. Within our current catalogue you will find the work of iconic photographers such as Richard Avedon, Paul Strand, and Henri Cartier-Bresson alongside early 20th-century carbon printing instructions, the Black Photographers' Annual prefaced by Toni Morrison, and a group of ten studio portraits of Native Americans of the Western Plains.