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@jonmsweeney Thanks for sharing!

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Martin Buber Item #306330 A collection of 5 Autograph Letters Signed ("Buber") and 1 Autograph Postcard Signed ("Buber"), to a Mr. A. Halbert.

See @CumminsBooks new catalog: https://t.co/jlvITrmHms

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Take a walk around NYC at the turn of the century. This pictorial depiction of both sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to 59th street offers architectural renderings and the locations/types of businesses🗽
Check it out in our fine Americana catalogue: https://t.co/T5UleYypg2

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George Bernard Shaw—the playwright, novelist, polemicist, and a Nobel Prize in Literature and Academy Award winner—died #onthisday in 1950.

Take a look inside this inscribed first edition of Everybody's Political What's What?: https://t.co/2uSHuWvJDN

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View Magazine featured artists and writers such as Max Ernst, André Breton, William Carlos Williams, Florine Stettheimer, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Leonora Carrington, and many others. Take a look at a nearly complete run of the iconic magazine here: https://t.co/Fbl1ECsjLw

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Don't miss out!

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Don't forget: RBS scholarship applications are due 11/1. Each year we offer 40 scholarships, including those sponsored by @BibSocAmer, T. Kimball Brooker/@CaxtonClub, @ABAA49 Southeast Chapter, @ASECSOffice, & @DCRareBookGroup--to name just a few! https://t.co/0NW16Cezfs

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William Reese Company Under New Ownership https://t.co/lifbCePazA via @finebooks @CumminsBooks @PHrarebooks

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Jonathan Swift, widely regarded as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, died #onthisday in 1745. Here is a sneak peek inside of the FIRST EDITION of the FIRST PRINTING of Gulliver’s Travels! Check out this scarce copy and more at: https://t.co/Nfjr5ZKSfK

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Did you miss our Fall Miscellany catalogue? 🍂📚To mark the chilly weather, our booksellers handpicked a selection of inventory including this RARE large paper, hand colored issue of William Howard Russell's The Atlantic Telegraph! Full catalogue here: https://t.co/m0fplIEjnJ

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It's about damn time...we heard @lizzo on that crystal flute!

History is freaking cool, and the @librarycongress (and all libraries!) help preserve it for all. Thanks for bringing history to life with your gift last night, Lizzo. #LizzoAtLOC @LibnOfCongress

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“Building the Book from the Ancient World to Present Day” is now open in our Main Gallery! Celebrate 50 years of @rarebookschool by traversing time, space, process, and product in the evolution of book production. Free & open to the public, Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm.

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Herman Melville died in relative obscurity on this day in 1891. Here are several editions of Moby-Dick including the first edition in French, Kent's illustrated Moby Dick, and the first American edition 🐳⚓️Take a look at more of Melville here: https://t.co/i16bC69kvJ

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One of the highlights in our latest African Americana catalogue is this scarce map, printed in 1878 by African American artist, lithographer and businessman Grafton Tyler Brown, depicting Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda. Check out the full catalogue here: https://t.co/Lyr1iNhrBQ

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One of the highlights featured in our recent Irish Literature catalogue is this advance review copy of the first authorized American edition of Ulysses by James Joyce! Check out the full catalogue here: https://t.co/cjyKfTgZsl

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✨ONE WEEK LEFT✨
Take a look at the link below to check out the sale...did we mention all items in the catalogue are 25% off? https://t.co/hTJoXpBX1t

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As summer winds to an end, we think of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke completed in 1948, seen here in 33 numbered long galley sheets. https://t.co/tfipfT5VCF

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Huge thanks also to @MaggsBros & @CumminsBooks for making it possible. To Henry Wessells of @CumminsBooks for bringing the book back to the Uk and to Ed @MaggsBros and Henry (signing it in below) for taking it to @BronteParsonage on Yorkshire Day - how appropriate!

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Tiny manuscript by Charlotte Brontë returns home to Haworth:
The manuscripts whereabout or survival were unknown since it sold for $520 (£408) in 1916 until it was offered for sale by @CumminsBooks of New York City and @MaggsBros of London.

https://t.co/mKnE3n6TLW

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The pleasure was ours!

[Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder]

I sold my literary archive to the Special Collections at UC Riverside. The archive includes marked-up drafts of forty books, stories, letters, videos, audio, scientific papers, rare zines, & email. The deal was agented by Henry Wessells (shown below) of James Cummins Bookseller.

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NEW CATALOGUE ALERT:

🌟THE HOGARTH PRESS🌟

Check out some of our highlights here and click the link below for the full catalogue from the celebrated Hogarth Press of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. https://t.co/NugwiwpyHr