Recent Arrivals from James Cummins Bookseller

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First American edition. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. Quarter bound cream and blue cloth; stamped in brown and metallic magenta on spine; photographic color dust jacket; spine lightly sunned; price clipped. First American edition. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. 8vo. The first American edition of Amis' collection of classic drink recipes - from… Read more about this item

Boston, Massachusetts: James H. Earle & Company, 1906. First edition. Illustrated (with a frontispiece portrait of Fanny J. Crosby, and full-page plates reproducing black-and-white photographs). 253 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dark brown cloth lettered in white. Spine lettering perished, inner hinges cracked but holding, else a very good copy, covers and text fresh and clean. First edition. Illustrated… Read more about this item

London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited, 294 City Road, 1885. In 15 Original parts. Illus. WITH Notice about the binding of the whole is pasted on the 15th Part's upper cover. 4to. Gray blue wrappers 1-8, Parts 9-15 are c in ream wrappers. Some internal repairs and the back wrapper of Part XV laid down. In cloth folding box.… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: William Duane, 1818. First American Edition of William Temple Franklin's collected works of Franklin. Engraved titles in each vol., 16 engraved plates (sold folding) [complete]. 6 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, flat spines with red and green morocco labels, worn. Provenance: Isaac Collins (signatures, booklabels). First American Edition of William Temple Franklin's collected works of Franklin. Engraved… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor & Co, 1850. First edition. Title printed in red and black. iv, 322 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, boards ruled in blind, March ads. Tiny scuff at head of spine. Contemporary ownership signature of A.D. Wild, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. Fine copy boxed. First edition. Title printed in red and black.… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Printed and Sold by Warner & Hanna, 1805. 179pp. 12mo. Contemporary brown Morocco, rubbed. 179pp. 12mo. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker or AAS

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1908. 37 etchings by Ad. Lalauze, colored frontis. 4 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in three quarters rewd levant and marbled boards, t. 37 etchings by Ad. Lalauze, colored frontis. 4 vols. Large 8vo.

[Imprint on printed title-page:] London: Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24,. Cockspur Street, and Sharpe and Hailes, Piccadilly, 1810. Title-page printed in gold and black + 121 pp. of text in a fine, cursive hand. 1 vols. 4to. Full black Regency morocco, gilt, covers with wide, gilt-rolled and blind-stamped borders, gilt-tolled and lettered spine, edges gilt, marbled… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First edition. 337 pp. 8vo. Color photographically printed paper-covered boards. Near fine, with closed tear to one of the late acknowledgment pages, in dust jacket with sunned spine. First edition. 337 pp. 8vo. Inscribed to his editor. Inscribed to Jim Silberman on the ffep with "affectionate best wishes." Silberman was Sacks' publisher… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: A. W. Auner, Song Publisher and Printer, 1870. 1p. 7-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches. A bit toned and brittle, minor chips. 1p. 7-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches. The song begins: "My name is O'Halloher, / I'm a man that's influential. / I mind my business, stop at home/ My wants are few and small. / Some blackguards 'tother day… Read more about this item

[New York]: New Directions, 1944. First book edition. A few photographic illustrations. 234 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Fine in slightly worn unclipped dj. First book edition. A few photographic illustrations. 234 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Paris: Léon Willem, 1873. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies, no. 37 of 260 printed on papier teinté. xv, [i], 188, [1]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter citron morocco and marbled boards, marbled endsheets. Lightly rubbed. Very good. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies, no. 37 of 260 printed on papier teinté. xv, [i], 188, [1]pp. 1 vols.… Read more about this item

Dix & Edwards, 1856. First Edition. 431, [7] pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Purple stamped cloth with yellow endpapers. Spine toned, some light staining to covers, head and foot of spine with slight wear, dampstaining to edge of last few leaves. Bookplates of Frederic Skiff, Estelle Doheny (paper), and another former owner. First Edition. 431, [7] pp. ads.… Read more about this item

Nottingham: Printed by H. Barnett, 1814. First edition. Folding plate at the end. vii, [i], 286, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gray boards, untrimmed, paper label. Spine worn, head chipped. Very good, internally fresh. First edition. Folding plate at the end. vii, [i], 286, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The first attempt at an English translation; Laplace… Read more about this item

Nantucket, 1851. 1-1/4pp, on a folded 4to sheet. Minor staining at bottom left. 1-1/4pp, on a folded 4to sheet. Sending the Proofs of her First Academic Paper. "On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before.… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. Second edition (and the first published English edition) of Alice; first edition of Through the Looking Glass, first issue. Illustrations by John Tenniel; 192 pp.; viii (including half-title), 224 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Modern polished calf with gilt borders on covers, raised bands, and modest gilt on spine, aeg with gauffered designs on all… Read more about this item

New York: [The De Vinne Press] Printed for Private Distribution to the Author's Friends, 1908. First edition. One of 100 copies, printed on Imperial Japan paper. Photogravure frontispiece and 38 photogravure plates. 124 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original vellum backed boards, printed spine label, t.e.g. Some natural speckling to spine. Book label of Henry E. Coe, Jr. Fine copy… Read more about this item

Paris: Edawrd W. Titus, 1932. First edition of the author's first book, number 491 of 500 copies. [10], 146, [2] pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt lettered on front cover and spine. Unopened, fine, in dust jacket that is lightly toned with some modest chipping at extremitites, light soiling to rear panel. First edition of the author's… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasqualle, 1911. viii, 298, [2]pp. Fragile printed wrappers--upper one detached, spine largely perished. viii, 298, [2]pp. Inscribed by Rostand on the first leaf i: " au Caporal M. Rebour avec le plus profonde sympathie. Edmond Rostand/ 1916." and with note from Maurice Rebosug(?) dated 1945.

London: Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670. First collected edition. With four engraved portraits, general title page, separate title-pages for Wotton, Hooker, Herbert; Herbert's letters with continuous register and pagination. 1 vols. 8vo. Eighteenth-century speckled calf gilt, boards with gilt roll border, all edges red. Superbly rebacked to period style. Fine copy. Custom solander box. First collected edition.… Read more about this item