Rare and Antiquarian Books
Rare books from James Cummins Bookseller

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Le Poison des Pierreries
by Mauclair, Camille
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Bound in full blue crushed levant, gilt stamped spine in 6 compartments, covers decorated in an open double fillet border, inter
- Edition
- Number 49 of 60 copies printed on Japan Paper, with the etched p
- Seller
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New York, New York
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$3,000.00
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$3,000.00

Archive of Drafts of Letters and Documents relating to Saroyan's separation and divorce from his wife Carol Marcus, and her affair with cartoonist Al Capp
by Saroyan, William
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- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Light creasing to some leaves from prior folding, else fine
- Seller
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New York, New York
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$5,000.00
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$5,000.00

The Story of Little Black Sambo
by Bannerman, Helen
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Original light green cloth ruled and lettered in dark green. Contemporary owner's signature dated Nov 1 1899 on title. Front hin
- Edition
- First edition
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$6,000.00
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$6,000.00

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Little Dorrit
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, spine darkened, covers a little rubbed and faded; plates with usu
- Edition
- First edition, with early issue points as per Smith (pp. 467-474
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$2,500.00
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$2,500.00

Pritt, the True Story of a Deaf Cat and Her Family
by (Hepburn, Katharine) Moon, Susan E. and Susie TRACY
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Used - Printed pictorial wrappers, with color reproduction of Pritt on upper cover
- Edition
- First edition
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$1,500.00
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$1,500.00
![Ethiopic Manuscript Prayer Book on Vellum. [Miracles of the Virgin Mary and the Saints]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/664/764/248764664.0.m.jpg)
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Ethiopic Manuscript Prayer Book on Vellum. [Miracles of the Virgin Mary and the Saints]
by (Ethiopic Manuscript)
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- Condition
- Used - Hide backed wooden boards. Upper board split in half, joined with old cord repair. Occasional irregularities in skins, lower cor
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New York, New York
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$1,000.00
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$1,000.00
![[Idyllia] [and other texts]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/777/134/626134777.0.m.jpg)
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[Idyllia] [and other texts]
by Theocritus; Hesiod
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf, spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tool
- Edition
- First Aldine edition, and the first complete edition of Theocrit
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$65,000.00
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$65,000.00
![The Salmon Fly. [With:] Tips](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/624/562/642562624.0.m.jpg)
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The Salmon Fly. [With:] Tips
by Kelson, George M.
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Original purple cloth over bevelled boards. Some spotting to upper covers of first volume, else fine; second volume fine. Laid i
- Edition
- First Editions
- Seller
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New York, New York
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$2,750.00
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$2,750.00

Typed letter signed ("Eleanor"), to Harry, concerning her appointment as a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations
by Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Fine, in red morocco-backed custom folding box
- Seller
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New York, New York
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$1,250.00
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$1,250.00

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Twice-Told Tales
by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Publisher's brown embossed cloth, title stamped in gilt to spine. Light wear and staining to covers, cloth split at rear joint,
- Edition
- First edition
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$5,000.00
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$5,000.00

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Baa Baa Black Sheep...by (Col. Gregory Boyington, USMC, Ret.)
by Boyington, "Pappy
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- Signed
- Condition
- Used - Blue boards. Fine in VG pictorial dj by Ben Fedder, Inc
- Edition
- Seventeenth Printing
- Seller
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New York, New York
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$1,250.00
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$1,250.00

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Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Bound in full red morocco, with oval Cosway-style portrait on the upper cover, a.e.g., by Aspreys. Skilfully rebacked preserving
- Edition
- First edition
- Seller
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New York, New York
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$6,000.00
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$6,000.00

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by [Clemens, Samuel L.]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Bound in full modern brown calf
- Edition
- First American edition, later Issue
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$1,500.00
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$1,500.00

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The House at Pooh Corner
by Milne, A.A.
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Original salmon cloth stamped in gilt, illustrated endpapers, t.e.g., illustrated dustjacket. Endpapers toned from jacket flap,
- Edition
- First edition
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$1,250.00
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$1,250.00
![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, or What Alice Found There. By...](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/287/937/1446937287.0.m.0.jpg)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. [And:] Through the Looking-Glass, or What Alice Found There. By Lewis Carroll
by [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used - Original red cloth gilt. Adventures expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, Looking Glass lightly rubbed, lower inner h
- Edition
- First edition, second issue of Adventures; first edition of Look
- Seller
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New York, New York
- Item Price
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$35,000.00
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$35,000.00