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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

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.

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.