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Our September 24 sale brings together 198 lots spanning an unusually wide and characterful range of collecting interests, from the radical press to the photographic annual, the industrial history of a single New England city to the broader currents of twentieth-century political thought. Photography occupies a commanding presence throughout, with substantial runs of Aperture magazine edited by Minor White — including monographic issues devoted to Edward Weston and featuring work by Lange, Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange — alongside wartime and postwar issues of American Photography, The Complete Photographer, and more than forty volumes of Popular Photography annuals rich with mid-century color plates. Waterbury, Connecticut emerges as a distinct collecting thread of its own, represented by an 1898 Waterbury Watch Company repair manual, an 1855 manuscript pauper notice, brass industry archives, fraternal ribbons and medals dating to 1889, a c. 1920 Waterbury Clock Company alarm clock in its original factory box, and Homer Bassett's scarce 1889 photogravure survey Waterbury and Her Industries. Among the highlights of broader bibliographic interest are a first edition of Trotsky's Problems of the Chinese Revolution (Pioneer Publishers, 1932), a first edition of Borges's Labyrinths (New Directions, 1962) in dust jacket, Hockney's Cameraworks (Knopf, 1984), an early 1913 issue of Freud's Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse, a Roycroft Press Maud in limp suede, and a rare mimeographed 1967 Detroit imprint of Grace and James Boggs's The City is the Black Man's Land — the lot as

Spanning nearly three centuries of print culture, this sale of 500 lots draws together an admirably diverse range of Americana, ephemera, and printed curiosities that will reward collectors across a wide spectrum of interests. Judaica is well represented, from the Vienna-printed Mikraot Gedolot Chumash and Saul Raskin’s etched Pirke Aboth to mid-century publications from The Jewish Publication Society, while New England local history surfaces throughout in Maine fisheries pamphlets, Portland Observatory keepsakes, a Clipper Ship master’s biography, and an 1888 pictorial tour of Washington, D.C. with original publisher’s cloth. Among the more distinctive offerings are Howard Pyle’s 1908 illustrated Ruby of Kishmoor, the Matisse Jazz art book, an Ansel Adams-illustrated 1945 issue of the literary journal Twice a Year, a self-published 1991 artist’s book from the Haystack School in Maine, and a handsome 1923 Tiranti quarto on the architectural designs of Abraham Swan. Genealogists will find Tuttle, Miller, and St. John family histories alongside New Jersey Jewish community records, while ephemera enthusiasts can pursue a 1961 Hartford Times heralding Yuri Gagarin’s flight, 1925 Brunswick record catalogs, Rawleigh’s 1938 almanac, vintage Esso road maps, and a curious rustic wooden plaque from the Portland Observatory bearing a Longfellow quotation — the whole forming a sale that reflects the pleasingly unpredictable accumulation of a well-read, widely traveled collecting life.

This autumn sale of 200 lots draws together an exceptionally wide-ranging selection of American and British books, periodicals, and ephemera spanning literature, architecture, exploration, art, and history, with particular depth in areas that reward the specialist and the general collector alike. Among the highlights are several Mark Twain subscription editions — including an 1875 Sketches and the Gilded Age — alongside signed and inscribed copies that carry genuine bibliographic weight, from Frederick Cook’s presentation copy of My Attainment of the Pole to August Derleth’s inscribed Sherlockian pastiches and a signed Carl Sandburg. Architecture enthusiasts will find a strong run of Frank Lloyd Wright monographs and a first edition of Ison’s Georgian Buildings of Bath in its dust jacket, while the literary periodicals — substantial runs of Encounter, Partisan Review, Dissent, and The American Mercury — document midcentury Anglo-American intellectual life with unusual completeness. Rounding out the sale are Victorian illustrated travel books, Pre-Raphaelite art catalogues, Burgess and Tolkien in early issues, Rachel Carson naturalist titles in original jackets, and a Folio Society set of Hodgkin’s Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, making this a sale that moves fluently between the scholarly and the collectable.