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James Cummins Bookseller - New York

James CumminsFounded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue (between 62nd and 63rd Streets) in New York City. The Madison Avenue store is a seventh-floor oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art. We have built notable private collections for American and international clients. Our stock is always changing, and our steady input from private buying and public auctions assures our clients of new surprises (and temptations!) at each visit.

Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests, with particular emphasis in the following fields: British and American Literature, Sporting Books, Private Press and Illustrated Books, 19th-Century Color Plate Books, Americana, Travel, Sets and Fine Bindings, History, and Authors' Manuscripts and Letters. Our catalogued inventory exceeds 50,000 titles, much of which can be searched on the internet. In addition, our New Jersey warehouse contains over 400,000 books in all subject areas. We might have the books you're looking for.

The Mill at Pottersville, in an historic pre-Revolutionary building, features a wide selection of sets and decorative bindings, books, maps, prints, original art and collectibles, as well as American and European antiques. Art shows and exhibitions are held regularly, and we will be pleased to let you know when they occur. The Mill is also open by appointment.

James Cummins Bookseller
699 Madison Avenue
New York
New York 10021
USA
Telephone: +1 212 688 6441
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Website: www.jamescumminsbookseller.com

Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. & Saturday 10:00 a.m to 5:00 p.m.
(During July & August, until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.)

 

Featured books

astronomical-manuscript

Astronomical Manuscript 

A fine treatise on cosmology and mathematics, written in an excellent hand in civilité and with drawings and diagrams of exceptional quality.

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nationalhall

Olympia 2012. The ABA's London International Antiquarian Book Fair will be held in the superb National Hall at Olympia. The National Hall provides the Fair with much more space – both for circulation and more stands. ¶ Read more...

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Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Arthur Schopenhauer