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

  • New York Book Fair 2025 Highlights

    New York Book Fair 2025 Highlights

    We are thrilled to be exhibiting at this year's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory (April 3-6). This catalogue includes just a few of the many wonderful items we will be exhibiting. We are especially proud to be offering books from the wide-ranging collections of the General Theological Seminary Library, with early Bibles printed by Koberger, Jenson, and Robert Estienne, ecclesiastical volumes such as third Drach edition of the Malleus Maleficarum, and interesting works of travel and Americana.

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  • Henry James from the Library of Peter Straub

    Henry James from the Library of Peter Straub

    This catalogue offers the collection of Henry James from the library of American author Peter Straub, with autograph letters, presentation copies, a notable large paper issue of the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales (complete, 26 vols., 1907-17), and a choice copy of The Two Magics, which contains “The Turn of the Screw”, as well as secondary works. With an introduction by John Clute

  • Spring has Sprung

    Spring has Sprung

    The greenery is resurrected and buds are eager to bloom. To mark the beginning of spring, we present a catalogue of florals, entertainment, and renewal. Highlights include the scarce two first parts of the highly important work known as the Temple of Flora, a superb copy of the first edition of Thoreau's Walden, and the first edition of Bukowski's first book: Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail.

  • In the Margins

    In the Margins

    Readers scrawl notes in the margins and amend in red ink, enriching—and occasionally complicating—the story of the text. Notable annotated material within this catalogue include Steel's New Chart of the Coast of Brazil with annotations by David Conner, plotting the course of the USS Hornet in the War of 1812; and Oliver Sacks' personal copy of A Leg to Stand on.

  • Women's History Month

    Women's History Month

    Scientists, anarchists, wrestlers, and writers — these are a few ways to describe the women you'll find within our Women's History Month catalogue. Highlights include one of the earliest petitions for women's suffrage before a legislative body, the archive of the best-selling The Aspirin Age by Isabel Leighton, and Virginia Woolf's Orlando translated and signed by Borges.

  • Americana February 2025

    Americana February 2025

    Within this catalogue of Americana miscellany you'll find a range of material spanning from an early work of American astronomy, to one of the earliest Confederate imprints: South Carolina's official act of secession, printed for delegates at the secession convention.

  • Art and Illustration

    Art and Illustration

    Whether adorned by a gilt frame or scrawled on the front free end paper, this catalogue of art and illustrated books contains a wide range of inventory—many signed or inscribed. Highlights include a matted and framed choice drawing and note from Cecil Beaton, and the first edition of Warhol's In the Bottom of my Garden with a hand-colored cover and lithograph.

  • Black Voices

    Black Voices

    This Black History Month we celebrate the Black artists, writers, and activists who've shaped the world we live in today. Highlights include the first edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; four Harmon Foundation catalogues of African American artists, including the groundbreaking 1928 exhibition; and an inscribed first edition of Obama's first book.

  • February New Arrivals

    February New Arrivals

    With the changing of the months comes freshly catalogued items new to our shelves. Highlights in this catalogue of new acquisitions include two detailed letters from George Eliot to her illustrator, Frederic Leighton, demonstrating her extensive research into Italian history for her novel Romola, her anxiety over its factual minutiae, and her satisfaction with Leighton's interpretation of her work.