Social Thought from James Cummins Bookseller

1945. Photographer's stamp on verso. 10 x 8 inches. Silver gelatin print, lightly toned. Photographer's stamp on verso. 10 x 8 inches. An outtake from the sitting that enshrined Boyle in the National Portrait Gallery. That image shows Boyle reading to the two children she had with Joseph Freiherr von Franckenstein, while this one shows Boyle and her… Read more about this item

London: Sampson, Low, 1856. First Eduition. 524, 12, ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth. Spine tips slightly worn. First Eduition. 524, 12, ads pp. 1 vols. 12mo.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co, 1856. First edition, Second printing. Binding Aa. 2 vols. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth. Top spine end of first volume worn, other spine ends and corners a little rubbed or bumped, a little rolled, else very good. First edition, Second printing. Binding Aa. 2 vols. 12mo.

1900. Single manuscript leaf. 8vo. Single manuscript leaf, recto only, horizontal folds for mailing; near fine. Single manuscript leaf. 8vo. Written upon her return home following a trip which had commenced on April 12th, Howe apologizes, stating, "I hasten to express my regret at having found no time to send you a line before I left Boston." She… 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

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, 1910. Two autograph letters, signed by Lady Dorothy Stanley, to American author, William Henry Rideing, regarding her husband, noted explorer, Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Ten pages (three sheets, folded to form twelve pages, with writing on ten sides). 12mo. The letters are folded for mailing, else near fine. Two autograph letters, signed by Lady Dorothy Stanley, to… Read more about this item

[Trumbull County, Ohio, 1860. Broadside. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Minor chips at corners. Broadside. 1 vols. 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Performance by the Ladies at 2-1/2 o'clock. Likely related to equestrian displays at the Trumbull County Ohio Agricultural Society, where both Austin and Seely (identified on the broadside as the President and Marshall respectively) seemed to… Read more about this item

Lexington, KY: J. Clarke & Co, 1836. First edition. Handcolored folding map. viii,410pp. 12mo. Publisher's cloth, remnants of paper spine label, worn. Repairs to separations of the folding map. Provenance: H. M. Spalding, Denton TX (ink ownership stamp on title); James P. Waggener (booklabel); Ted Lusher (booklabel). Housed in a clamshell box. First edition. Handcolored folding map. viii,410pp.… Read more about this item

New York, 1980. One leaf, recto only, on Kennedy Onassis' 1040 Fifth Avenue stationery. Paired with black-and-white print of Yousuf Karsh's July 1957 photographic portrait of Kennedy Onassis; original franked mailing envelope held loosely in sleeve on verso. 8vo. Fine. Matted, glazed, and framed in silver. One leaf, recto only, on Kennedy Onassis' 1040 Fifth Avenue stationery. Paired… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911. First Edition. Illus. 361pp. 8vo. Blue pictorial cloth, lettering faded, else Very Good. First Edition. Illus. 361pp. 8vo. Harriet White Fisher's was the first woman to travel around the world by car, owner after her husband's death of Eagle Steel Works or later, Fisher & Norris, an anvil and vise factory in… Read more about this item

Providence: Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 1845. First Edition. 148pp. 12mo. Publisher's blue blind stamped cloth, with the small yellow book label of binder' Bound by J.W. Root Market St. Providence, minor wear at head and tail of spine, minor staining on covers. Provenance: Wm E. Van Dyke (signature on front free endpaper). First Edition. 148pp. 12mo. A scarce collection… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. Second Edition, published 3 years after the first edition of 1944 and with new preface and "an Appendix containing an axiomatic derivation of numerical utility." pp. 617-632. [6], v-xviii, 1- 641 pp. 8vo. Publisher's original brown cloth over boards, gilt stamped title label. tear at back upper outer hinge. Second Edition, published 3… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1853. First edition. 254, [10, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original publisher's black blindstamped cloth, original spine neatly laid down Lower flyleaf neatly excised. First edition. 254, [10, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "In Barclay Street New-York, years ago, flourished, at No. 63, that famous caravanserai of all the most rabid wild animals… Read more about this item

New York: Year Two Thousdnad Pub. Co, 1927. 297, [5]pp. 8vo. Blue cloth. VG in chipped dj. 297, [5]pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the half-title by the author in 1927 "The Man without a Necktie is the first novel in the history of literature having been written by a woman writer in collaboration with her son.

np [Probably Philadelphia], 1955. First Edition. Illustrated with photos and a fold out plate at end. 132pp. 8vo. Red cloth. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated with photos and a fold out plate at end. 132pp. 8vo. Marion was a woman of many accomplishments in Coaching, salmon fishing, foxhunting, shooting, etc.

London: John Baskett; Thomas Baskett; [and others], 1760. Together, approx. 35 Acts, each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Disbound. Some with foxing, some trimmed, a few leaves detached. Overall very good. A couple in duplicate. Together, approx. 35 Acts, each with separate title with Royal arms. Small folio. Includes the following: An Act for… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. Inscribed by Mead to Philip Mosely on the front endpaper. Illustrated. 4to. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, small area of loss to jacket at head of spine, a few edge tears and creasing. Inscribed by Mead to Philip Mosely on the front endpaper. Illustrated. 4to. INSCRIBED.

New York & Chicago: J. S. Ogilvie, Publisher, 1885. First edition in English. 262 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Dark blue cloth, stamped in gold on spine. Bumped at top edge (with tiny closed tear), text is evenly tanned (printed on acidic paper), a few leaves of text have short, creased tears, and nicks, in blank margins (due to acidic… Read more about this item