ARCHIVE OF A MAJOR FIGURE IN THE AMERICAN COUNTER CULTURE BOB DYLAN, PHILIP K. DICK, THEODORE STURGEON, AND MORE! James Cummins Bookseller will exhibit highlights of the Archive of Paul Williams (1948-2013) at Booth C15 at the N.Y. Art Book Fair, to be held 17-20 September at P.S.1 in Queens. PAUL WILLIAMS founded Crawdaddy! in […]
Catalogue announcement
New York Antiquarian Book Fair
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair is open. We are exhibiting in booth E-1, come visit us. Our book fair list can be found here. Catalogue 123, Sporting Books & Prints, is in press and will be mailing soon.
James Cummins Bookseller Catalogue 122
We are pleased to report that Catalogue 122 will soon be mailed from the printer. We will also send out an e-mail announcement and link to the online version of the catalogue. We will exhibiting at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, 4-6 April, in Booth E1. Come say hello. […]
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to You
All of us here at James Cummins Bookseller wish you a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. Our catalogue 115 has been mailed and is available here. We will have a fine literary miscellany in our catalogue 116 (in preparation for February), and will issue catalogue 117, angling and shooting books, […]
Literature and the life of the Poet
Literature (and the antiquarian book trade) works on a longer time scale than the headlines of the day. And so it never troubles me that my copy of the TLS invariably arrives a week late : its contents always compel attention. In the issue for 7 September, received in yesterday’s mail, there is a review […]
Summer vacation . . . and after : Catalogue 113
It is time for the annual shop closing. James Cummins Bookseller will reopen after Labor Day on Tuesday 4 September. Until then . . . Farewell. Our newest catalogue is in press, and will mail in mid-September. Catalogue 113 is a lavishly illustrated, comprehensive catalogue of the books, prints, and ephemera of the Derrydale Press, […]
New Catalogues from James Cummins Bookseller
In the coming week we will be sending out two new catalogues to our friends and customers: catalogue 110 is a lively miscellany spanning more than five hundred years of print. Highlights include A Noble Fragment (with a choice New Testament leaf from the Gutenberg Bible with an intriguing example of how to correct a […]