Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 975
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
WITH A CUMMINS LETTER AND PHOTOGRAPHS (CRIME.) Jim Cummins' Book, Written by Himself. 13 plates, text illustrations. 191, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth, minimal wear; minor toning, related clipping laid down on front free endpaper. Denver, CO: Reed Publishing, 1903

Additional Details

first edition of the memoirs of a prominent member of the James Gang. Adams, Six-Guns 528 ("exceedingly rare"); Howes C951 ("aa"). with--a carte-de-visite photograph captioned "Jim Cummins" on verso Photograph of Cummins in old age, 5 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches, captioned on verso "Jim Cummins March 1925, photo by Robertus Love, to WHJ Shaw" Autograph Letter Signed "J.A. Cummings" on letterhead of the Confederate Home of Missouri to author W.H.J. Shaw of Victoria, MO: "If you will write to Robertus Love [author of The Rise and Fall of Jesse James] . . . you can get a book from him or through him, and also you can get better pictures than I am sending." Higginsville, MO, 31 July 1925.