Our December 7 auction presents 200 lots drawn from an admirably wide sweep of book collecting, ranging from early nineteenth-century travel and exploration — Dieffenbach on New Zealand, Mackenzie on the Slavonic provinces of Turkey, Niemeyer on the Continent and England — through American literature, with signed limited editions by Edwin Arlington Robinson, a first printing of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts, early Steinbeck and Salinger, and a 1931 Mickey Mouse volume from the Walt Disney Studio. Fine and decorative bindings appear throughout, from a red straight-grained morocco Voltaire and an inlaid leather Meredith to Louÿs's Aphrodite in mottled calf with gilt tooling and a Dobson privately printed in full morocco with leather doublures; illustrated works are equally well represented, with Chapront plates for Saadi's Jardin des Roses, lithographic views of Naples, Kanitz illustrations for the Slavonic Provinces, and a folding Aztec calendar plate in the Brocklehurst Mexico. Collectors of periodicals and ephemera will note the bound Golden Days with its intact chess and checker supplement, the 1845 Graham's Magazine containing Poe, and a run of Dissent covering the civil rights era, while the auction's outer reaches extend to Japanese pattern books in thread-stitched wrappers, three Visionaire fashion portfolios, and a group of mid-century Marxist and Maoist pamphlets that speak to a lively history of the political press.
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