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Our October 26 auction presents 200 lots spanning five centuries of books, manuscripts, maps, ephemera, and original art, with particular depth in fine bindings, illustrated works, and the more colourful corners of twentieth-century print culture. Collectors of literary firsts will find Hemingway’s *For Whom the Bell Tolls* in its 1940 Scribner first edition, Thackeray’s *Pendennis* in original two-volume cloth, and a first American edition of Daisy Ashford’s *The Young Visiters* complete with its scarce dust jacket and J. M. Barrie preface, while signed Franklin Library productions by Faulkner, Bourjaily, and Auchincloss offer finely bound reading copies for the shelf. The cartographic holdings are equally varied, ranging from a hand-coloured 1790s New York state map and a Kiepert *Atlas Antiquus* to a nineteenth-century Litchfield County atlas sheet with individual landholder names. Erotica and transgressive imprints appear in some strength — from Girodias’s Olympia Press anthologies and a signed limited Poe translated by Baudelaire with Dubout lithographs to an 1895 Paris first edition on hashish and occultism — sitting companionably alongside devotional items in gilt morocco, an Elbert Hubbard Roycroft suede binding with metal clasp, a Virgil *Aeneis* of 1701 concealing a fore-edge painting, and a sixteenth-century hand-coloured herbal leaf. Original art, postcards, photographs, and ephemera round out the sale, including a signed Bette Davis silver gelatin portrait, Sandoz

Our October 29th auction presents 200 lots spanning several centuries of printed culture, manuscript material, and paper ephemera, with particular depth in modern American and European literature, the history of printing and typography, and the graphic arts. Among the highlights are three signed John Updike first editions in dust jackets, signed copies from Garcia Marquez and Joyce Carol Oates, a Cuala Press Rossi with its characteristic blue paper boards, and a remarkable 1935 Transition pamphlet bearing contributions from Braque, Matisse, and Tristan Tzara in response to Gertrude Stein. Collectors of illustrated and finely produced books will find the Skira Raynal volume on Fauvism and Expressionism with its tipped-in colour plates, the Ginzkey limited edition in decorated calf with mounted lithographs from Karl Scheibe’s workshop, and British Museum portfolios of illuminated manuscript reproductions alongside Dillmann’s scarce 1865 Ethiopic-Latin lexicon. The auction also rewards those drawn to ephemera and Americana: WWII ration books from Boston, an engraved Franklin rebus broadside, a rare woodcut-illustrated 1829 slavery narrative, Civil War election ballots, 1939 World’s Fair printed matter, and promotional booklets for the Hotel Astor and Hotel Knickerbocker that document early twentieth-century New York in vivid halftone and colour lithography. Latvian displaced persons’ children’s books from an Augsburg camp, Latvian Baptist publications, genealogical volumes on Macau and Portuguese India, and science fiction fanzines from Columbia University extend the reach of the sale into genuinely uncommon collecting territory.