Art, Architecture & Design from James Cummins Bookseller

Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, 1888. 6 vols. 4to. Bound in full vellum, beveled boards, all edges gilt, black leather title lables, gilt emblem "Manner Makyth Man" on each upper and lower board. Bookplate of Thoams James Chesshyre Tomlin. Fine. 6 vols. 4to.

London, 1791. [4], 15 pp.; [4], 20 pp., half title; [2], 36 pp.; [4], 44 pp., half title; 28 pp., half title; [4], 31 pp., half title. 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches (24.75 x 18.5 cm). Bound in full brown modern morocco, gilt stamped title on the spine, a.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf. 1922. minimal wear, front joint starting and hinge cracked,… Read more about this item

London: Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fileld and published for the Author, 1803. First Edition. 31 plates (30 sepia acquatints and 1 steel engraved). 52 pages of text. Large 4to (11 x 14inches). Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. First Edition. 31 plates (30 sepia acquatints and 1 steel engraved). 52 pages of text. Large 4to (11 x 14inches). Abbey Life… Read more about this item

[Montana], 1991. 27 Blueprints (folded), 160 photographs (some marked), photocopy storyboards, negatives, and printouts. Folio and smaller. Generally very good to fine. In a gray archival box. 27 Blueprints (folded), 160 photographs (some marked), photocopy storyboards, negatives, and printouts. Folio and smaller. Extensive practical archive of the production of A River Runs through It, the acclaimed film of… Read more about this item

New York, 1956. [16], 110 pp. 4to. Wrappers with brad fasteners, and affixed label typed in IRP's distinctive Upper-Case italic font. Some rubbing, text pages with some edgewear, and autograph corrections in the author's hand. [16], 110 pp. 4to. "Underlying all experience is the phenomenon of substance. Substance gives meaning to experience. The characteristics of substance are individual… Read more about this item

New York, 1959. 7, [1], 56, [14] pp. on multicolored paper. 4to. Side stapled wrappers with electrical tape spine. Edges worn, and some chips to wrappers. 7, [1], 56, [14] pp. on multicolored paper. 4to. Written throughout the 1950s, usually individually dated here in the typescript, with the preface dated May 29, 1959, this collection was published in… Read more about this item

New York City and Normandy, France, 1979. 4to. All on plain paper, most recto and verso, some with autograph emendations and small additions; one with affixed and augmented black-and-white photograph; four with related franked envelopes. 4to. A small collection of lyrical, textually dense, and intensely personal letters written by the painter, photographer, and writer David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) to… Read more about this item

[London], 1837. [1]p., about 400 words in ink, with cross outs and corrections, small folio sheet. With a handcolored lithographed print of the ibis from the first octavo edition. 13-1/2 x 7-7/8 inches. Old folds. Housed in a blue morocco backed slipcase. [1]p., about 400 words in ink, with cross outs and corrections, small folio sheet. With a… Read more about this item

Paris: C. Derriey, Rue Notre-Dame-Des-Champs, 6 & 12, 1862. [4]pp (price list and index, printed recto and verso on 2 leaves) and 182 (of 183?) plates, (printed recto only, approx. 50 in one, two, three or more colors, the color plates printed by Imprimerie Paul Dupont). With a large printed trade card or separate specimen, laid in. Folio. Contemporary… Read more about this item

Hammersmith, Middlesex: Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1893. One of 300 copies printed on paper. Printed in red and black with woodcut initials and two borders (grapevines and floral motifs). xiv, 282, [1, colophon]. 1 vols. 8vo. Original vellum with the tow ties. Bookplate of Henry William Poor. Laid into a half blue morocco slipcase and… Read more about this item

Strängnäs and other locations, Sweden, 1940. Pen and ink or pencil on paper, 78 pp. total, with original autograph transmittal envelopes. Light creasing from folding, held within their original franked, autograph envelopes, most with postage stamps removed. Pen and ink or pencil on paper, 78 pp. total, with original autograph transmittal envelopes. A small collection of 20 autograph… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. First edition, limited issue, one of 126 signed and numbered copies (this is unnumbered, marked "Presentation Copy" in autograph), hand-bound by Earle Gray, with original signed acrylic painting, inscribed opposite title page with doodle. 4to. Quarter-bound patterned cloth and printed paper boards; printed label affixed to spine; orange endpapers; signed ("Buk") painting… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, for the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1981. First edition. One of 750 copies. With 21 plates in magnificent color, with 284 illustrations in text in vol. I, and in vol. II collotype reproductions of all 258 Islamic miniature paintings in their actual size, with additional details. Title pages printed in red and black.… Read more about this item

London: E.T. For a Society of Stationers, 1655. WITH A CONTEMPORARY FORE-EDGE BY LEWIS, of flowers centering on a quotation within a wreath "|Blessed is he that [word faded]" and signed Lewis fecit 1656.". 12mo (169 x 115 mm.}. Contemporary black goatskin, elaborately tooled in gilt, small central oval onalys of calf at center of a large rectangular onlaid… Read more about this item

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. First Edition, first Issue, with erratum at p. 268. Color frontispiece, numerous plates and illustrations in text. xxi, 355 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth-backed brown boards, printed paper label, t.e.g. Very good in three quarters brown morocco slipcase and chemise. Bookplate of Henry Lewis Batterman. First Edition, first Issue, with erratum… Read more about this item

East Lansing, Michigan, 1976. 11" x 14" offset print. Offset print on blue paper with some sunning but near fine. 11" x 14" offset print. In 1976 Borges was a Visiting Professor, Michigan State University, College of Arts & Letters for the Winter, 1976 session. This broadside advertises a series of public lectures by Borges and occured on… Read more about this item

Paris: Ve A. Mortel, 1881. 32 plates, 18 chromolithographs printed by Lemercier , the rest (14) heliogravures. iii, 230 pp. folio. Half brown morocco. Very Good. 32 plates, 18 chromolithographs printed by Lemercier , the rest (14) heliogravures. iii, 230 pp. folio.

London: Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1911. First edition. 16 fine ChromolithographsIllus. with 174 piece are illustrated. Printed by Charles Whittingham. 1 vols. Folio. Blue bevelled cloth, t.e.g. Spine sunned. First edition. 16 fine ChromolithographsIllus. with 174 piece are illustrated. Printed by Charles Whittingham. 1 vols. Folio. More than half of the wares in this splendid… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder, 1849. First edition. Illustrated, vii, [3], 205, [1], 16 [ads] pp. Royal 8vo. Publisher's blindstamped cloth, front hinge started. Liad into a quarter green morocco drop box. Bookplate of John Lowe and with note to him at New College, Oxford from Pickering & Chatto that this copy was No. 244 in the exhibition Le livre Anglais… Read more about this item

London: Tangerine Press, 2017. Numbered 18 of 176 numbered and lettered copies. Three printed cards in envelope. Two letterpress printed broadsides; 'poem for Dante' on gray card stock paper, and orange and black illustration of Bukowski on white card stock, as well as the colophon on smaller white card stock in white envelope with gilt lettering on front; all… Read more about this item