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This September 28 sale brings together 200 lots spanning the full breadth of American life and letters, from early republic imprints and municipal law to Cold War photojournalism, Hollywood scandal, and mid-century fiction in its original pictorial wrappers. Americana collectors will find particular reward in a first edition of J. K. Paulding's 1818 verse epic *The Backwoodsman*, an 1821 American edition of Byron's *Don Juan* in printed boards, early Ohio and California government pamphlets, and a run of New York Chamber of Commerce commemorative volumes stretching from 1894 to 1908. Medical and legal history is well represented, with Pennsylvania Hospital annals, a full-calf Hippocrates and Galen, Homeopathy in America, and regional bar and law academy titles bearing handsome bookplates and period bindings. Among the illustrated highlights are a Rockwell Kent–decorated *Canterbury Tales*, Howard Pyle's *Robin Hood* in the Scribner Brandywine edition, the B. Altman architectural trade catalog in gilt cloth and slipcase, and Gordon Kahn's scarce paperback account of the Hollywood Ten. The sale rounds out with a signed Buzz Aldrin space collection, A. A. Milne's Pooh books in dust jackets, Upton Sinclair's *Cry for Justice*, and a broad sweep of vintage pulps, mass-market paperbacks, and periodicals that document American popular culture from the 1850s through the 1980s.

Our September 13 auction presents 267 lots spanning three centuries of books, manuscripts, photographs, prints, and ephemera, with particular strength in signed presidential and political material — from Richard Nixon’s inscribed memoir and George H. W. Bush’s signed letters to Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Spiro Agnew — alongside a remarkable run of signed astronaut titles including John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Buzz Aldrin, and Jim Lovell that reads almost as a Who’s Who of the Space Age. Signed first editions by literary figures such as Michael Connelly, Dan Brown, Lee Child, Mary Higgins Clark, and Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe complement rarer finds including a signed limited Clive Barker Hellraiser graphic novel (19 of 200 copies), an Alistair Cooke signed First Edition Society leather-bound volume, and a 1987 die-cut guestbook created for the yacht Trump Princess. New England local history receives thoughtful representation through early editions on Marblehead, Ashfield, Stonington, and Boston, while the graphic arts appear in Debret’s monumental Voyage Pittoresque au Brésil folio portfolio, a Samuel Prout engraving portfolio from the Continental Annual for 1832, and the Blaeu Novus Atlas Sinensis facsimile with fold-out maps of China and Japan. Photography collectors will find 19th-century cabinet cards and a quarter-plate ambrotype with Salem, Massachusetts provenance, and the auction rounds out with Civil War imprints, a rare first edition on horology by Edmund Beckett, and vintage horror magazine runs that speak to the breadth of tastes this sale is designed to serve.