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

  • Americana September 2025

    Americana September 2025

    A new month brings a selection of Americana recently added to our shelves. Highlights include the first political cartoon in American history to visualize and satirize gerrymandering, and one of the earliest printings of the Gettysburg Address.

  • Disasters: Natural, Man-Made, and Imaginary

    Disasters: Natural, Man-Made, and Imaginary

    Plumes of smoke, rivers thick with pollution, nuclear fallout, and ground that tosses buildings like toy blocks: these are just a few of the catastrophic effects of disasters both real and fictitious.

  • Empire State Rare Book Fair Highlights 2025

    Empire State Rare Book Fair Highlights 2025

    We look forward to seeing friends — both old and new — within Grand Central Terminal at the 2025 Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair. In advance of the fair, we are delighted to offer a sneak peek of some highlights we will display in booth 13.

  • Selections from the Michael Zinman Collection

    Selections from the Michael Zinman Collection

    We, in partnership with George S. MacManus Co, are honored to offer for sale Michael Zinman's final "critical mess"—as he called his fifty plus years of collecting.

    The present catalogue represents highlights from various sub-genres of this period in his Americana collecting: Bibles, bindings, children's books, imprints, literature, theater broadsides, risqué material, and more. 

  • Summer Sets

    Summer Sets

    Literary legends, studies on investment and human nature, and classic texts of American natural history. Within this wide-ranging catalogue of sets you'll find the first octavo Shakespeare including the Poems, the celebrated Ibarra edition of Don Quixote, and the first edition of Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions.

  • Tight Lines and Happy Landings from Old Mill

    Tight Lines and Happy Landings from Old Mill

    From the salmon lochs of Scotland to the trout streams of North America, our catalogue offers a summer full of angling adventure with highlights that include the 1836, First Nicolas Edition of The Complete Angler, considered one of the finest illustrated editions of Walton ever published.

  • Humor, Games, & Entertainment

    Humor, Games, & Entertainment

    Here are a few playful ways to pass the hot summer days, from the eccentric performances of circus and sideshow entertainers found within Fahrend Volk to an original New Yorker cartoon, signed by the incomparable William Steig.

  • Heavenly Bodies

    Heavenly Bodies

    Within this catalogue of astronomy and astrology, you'll find a number of celestial wonders, from a lunar photo-mosaic assembled by the NASA Surveyor program to a first edition of Opus tripartitum de crisi,  the astrological and medical treatise by the Neapolitan physician Cesare Optatus. 

  • June Acquisitions

    June Acquisitions

    With the onset of summer comes the rumble of air conditioning units, lengthy days, and a fresh batch of new arrivals. Highlights include the first edition, first impression, paperback issue of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and a stunning Caradoc edition of The Compleat Angler in fine Cosway-style binding.

  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror

    Extraterrestrial beasts, interstellar war, and plenty of plenty of critters that go bump in the night! Within our science fiction, fantasy, and horror catalogue you'll find first edition, first issue of Frank Herbert's incomparable Dune; a first edition of Lovecraft's first book of fiction, The Shunned House, with an H.P.L autograph; and Robert A. Heinlein's Destination Moon, inscribed to his editor.