Error with using `max_items` and `sortby` parameters with the LandsatLook endpoint

When submitting a search to the Landsat STAC API with PySTAC setting both max_items and sortby parameters, the returned results are repeated to match the max_items value, e.g., this search setup has only 4 scenes that satisfy it, but 10 are returned, which is the set max_items value in the search :

landsat_stac = Client.open('https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/stac-server')
query_returns = landsat_stac.search(
    collections=['landsat-c2ard-sr'],
    datetime=f"2023-11-03/2023-11-03",
    max_items=10,
    intersects=river_linestring,
    sortby=[
        {'field': 'properties.landsat:grid_vertical', 'direction': 'asc'}, 
        {'field': 'properties.landsat:grid_horizontal', 'direction': 'asc'}
    ]
).item_collection_as_dict()['features']

Of the 10 returned, the metadata dictionary for 2 scenes is repeated 3 times, while the other 2 are repeated 2 times.
When the line of code is run without the max_items flag, the "pulling" of metadata from the Landsat STAC continues, seemingly with no end.

Is there a potential fix to this, or is this snippet incorrectly formatted?

Thank you,
Toni

Start by reproducing the provided Client.open and search call against the Landsat STAC endpoint, comparing results with and without max_items and sortby. Trace how PySTAC Client handles pagination and item collection assembly, then verify that matching scenes are returned once and that an uncapped search terminates normally.