USIANA

Our October 19 auction presents 200 lots drawn from a pleasingly varied range of collecting interests, with particular strengths in Americana, British cultural history, illustrated books, and twentieth-century literature. The Lakeside Classics are well represented across multiple lots and periods, complemented by runs from the Britain in Pictures series and the Imprint Society, while students of fine press printing will note a facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer and a signed limited edition of Max Beerbohm’s Works numbered 121. Literary highlights include a first edition of Nelson Algren’s National Book Award-winning The Man with the Golden Arm in its dust jacket, three early James Baldwin titles, Aldous Huxley’s collected works from Chatto & Windus, and unbound production signatures for Anne Rice’s The Queen of the Damned — an unusual survival. Art and illustration are generously represented throughout, from loose chromolithographic design plates drawn from Dekorative Vorbilder and The Art Decorator to Peter Beard’s Longing for Darkness, Horst’s Photographs of a Decade, Heinrich Zimmer’s two-volume Art of Indian Asia in the Bollingen Series, and individual issues of the Paris satirical journal Le Rire featuring lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec and Vallotton.

Our October 22 auction presents 200 lots spanning an admirably broad range of collecting fields, from antiquarian pamphlets and private press rarities to modern first editions, ephemera, and the decorative arts. Among the highlights are a 1933 Cuala Press edition of Rossi’s Pilgrimage in the West, a complete woodcuts monograph on Dürer accompanied by exhibition catalogues, Skira’s tipped-in plate volume on Matisse, Munch, and Rouault, and three volumes of Forjaz’s Famílias Macaenses — a scarce genealogical record of Macau’s Portuguese families. Signed and inscribed copies appear throughout, including Updike’s A Month of Sundays and Problems, Mosley’s Gone Fishin’, Dalton’s Miguel Marmol, and Oates and Doctorow firsts, while García Márquez’s first American editions of Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold anchor a strong modern literature section. The auction also rewards specialists in typography and printing history, needlework and textile arts, New York City ephemera, Latvian displaced persons publications, early cinema and theatre programmes, and World War II rationing material, with curiosities ranging from a Kemble engraved chart of Columbus’s Atlantic voyages to a 1917 Ballet Intime promotional folder bearing photographs of Adolf Bolm and Roshanara.