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

  • 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.

  • African Americana July 2024

    African Americana July 2024

    Within our latest catalogue of African Americana you will find over two centuries' worth of material, spanning from before abolition to the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights movement. Highlights include an extraordinary work of radical abolitionism by David Ruggles, Abrogation of the Seventh Commandment and what is believed to be among the final photographs of Harriet Tubman.

  • Literary Acquisitions

    Literary Acquisitions

    Plath, Borges, and Kafka are just a few literary juggernauts found within this catalogue of literary acquisitions.You'll also find the best obtainable Baskerville edition of Paradise Lost in contemporary binding, an unrestored first edition of A Christmas Carol in the original cloth, and a first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin — all of which need no introduction.

  • July New Arrivals

    July New Arrivals

    Beat the heat with this eclectic list of items fresh to our shelves! Highlights include a comprehensive collection of the works of Joan Aiken, including her most beloved titles; a first edition ofThe Encyclopaedia of Islam; and the rare portfolio, Los Poetas del Tango, as seen here.

  • Antiquarian Agrarian

    Antiquarian Agrarian

    Advancements in farming and agriculture have influenced history, from the scientific to the literary. Within our latest catalogue you'll find a breadth of inventory including a collection of material related to the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union, one of the few integrated organizations in the south during the pre-Civil Rights era; a broadside of Wendell Berry's Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, inscribed to a noted bookseller and friend of the press; and a framed photograph of farm workers in a field signed by Lotte Jacobi.