Our November 30 auction presents 200 lots drawn from an unusually wide range of collecting fields, with particular strength in American furniture and decorative arts, presidential inscribed books, horror and mystery fiction, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature. Among the highlights are a signed first edition of Harry S. Truman's Year of Decisions in its illustrated dust jacket, Richard Nixon's In the Arena and No More Vietnams bearing the author's signature, and Herbert Hoover's Memoirs and Problems of Lasting Peace, both inscribed — together forming a notable grouping of presidential association copies. The auction is equally rich in the illustrated book: a first edition of Peter Straub's Ghost Story, Phiz-engraved plates in an 1839 half-calf Dickens Nicholas Nickleby, hand-colored woodcuts in an Albany toy book of Whittington and His Cat, hand-colored fashion plates in an 1839 bound volume of The Lady's Book, and Stephen King's Nightmares in the Sky alongside issues of the rare Castle Rock newsletter all reward the collector of illustrated and ephemeral material. Printed decorative-art plates, issues of the French satirical journal Le Rire from 1896, Stanley Morison's German Incunabula facsimile plates, the Golden Cockerel Press bibliography Chanticleer, and James Joyce's 1934 American Ulysses add further bibliographic and typographical interest, while early imprints — including an 1797 account of Algerian captivity in contemporary calf, an 1813 London pamphlet on the Princess of Wales inquiry, and Benjamin Bell's 1779 Edinburgh surgical treatise — extend the auction's reach well into the eighteenth century.
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