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.
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