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

  • Toronto Highlights

    Toronto Highlights

    The 52nd Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair begins this Friday and we can't wait to showcase an eclectic list of Canadiana, sporting books, great works of literature, and never-before-seen new arrivals.

  • September New Arrivals

    September New Arrivals

    As a Thursday pick-me-up here's a catalogue of recent acquisitions featuring a clutch of books inscribed by Charles Bukowski. Highlights include a first edition of the notable fugitive slave and whaling narrative, Life of John Thompson; one of the rarest of the Derrydales, Grasslands International Steeplechase, with outstanding provenance: F.P. Williamson; and a collection of first editions of Anthony Powell's classic novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time as seen here.

  • Down to a Science

    Down to a Science

    From astronomy to zoology, our latest catalogue showcases a wide range of books in science beginning at the end of the 16th century.

  • From the Library of an American Eccentric

    From the Library of an American Eccentric

    From the decadent debauchery of Venus in Furs, as seen above, to the ribald Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, we are proud to present an eclectic single-owner collection of books to satisfy your inner aesthete.

  • Get Lost

    Get Lost

    Not limited to the dimensions of a handheld phone, maps were once expansive— and often creative — representations of their locales. Within this catalogue you'll find maps both old, new, realistic, and fictitious from an incunable printing of Macrobius' In Somnium Scipionis Expositio ex Ciceronis with the world map to Tolkien's map of Beleriand.

  • London: Real and Imagined

    London: Real and Imagined

    From dystopian renditions of the city to the conservation of the River Thames, this catalogue is filled with items showcasing the history and inspiration of London. Highlights include the first edition of Pierce Egan's Life in London with 36 hand-colored plates by I.R. and George Cruikshank, and fold-out music, as seen here.

  • August Arrivals

    August Arrivals

    Here's a star-studded miscellany of books fresh to our shelves. Highlights include The Writings of Mark Twain with an original manuscript leaf from A Tramp Abroad; Warhol's In the Bottom of my Garden with a hand-colored cover and lithograph; and Robert Louis Stevenson's family copy of A Cloud of Witnesses. 

  • Manuscripts and Letters

    Manuscripts and Letters

    Within our latest catalogue you'll find a wide range of manuscripts and letters, many of which are new to our shelves. Highlights include a Spanish-Italian manuscript dictionary offering a rare snapshot of 16th century popular spoken language, as seen above.

  • Law and Order

    Law and Order

    Within our latest catalogue you'll find items related to law creation and enforcement, trials, and accounts of crimes as far-ranging as misuse of horses to murder. Highlights include an important printing of the Maryland Jew Bill, the first American Blackstone, and a large souvenir album prepared for Judge Harold R. Medina pertaining to the Red Scare Trial of 1949, with an original courtroom drawing, as seen here.