A new month brings a selection of Americana recently added to our shelves. Highlights include the first political cartoon in American history to visualize and satirize gerrymandering, and one of the earliest printings of the Gettysburg Address.
Plumes of smoke, rivers thick with pollution, nuclear fallout, and ground that tosses buildings like toy blocks: these are just a few of the catastrophic effects of disasters both real and fictitious.
Here are a few playful ways to pass the hot summer days, from the eccentric performances of circus and sideshow entertainers found within Fahrend Volk to an original New Yorker cartoon, signed by the incomparable William Steig.
Within this catalogue of astronomy and astrology, you'll find a number of celestial wonders, from a lunar photo-mosaic assembled by the NASA Surveyor program to a first edition of Opus tripartitum de crisi, the astrological and medical treatise by the Neapolitan physician Cesare Optatus.
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Founded in 1978, James Cummins Booksellers has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store in Manhattan. Our stock covers a wide range of collecting interests exceeding 50,000 titles, with particular emphasis in 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.
James Cummins Bookseller has been a member of the ABAA since 1980, and is a member of the ABA and ILAB.
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An oasis for book-lovers; visit our quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen and expertly catalogued selection of fine and rare books, works of art, and more.
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