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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 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.