London: Henry Colburn, 1827. Extra-Illustrated Edition. Octavos, 9 volumes; VG; bound in half blue calf with blue cloth boards, paneled spines with gilt lettering and titling; top edge of text blocks gilt; marbled endpapers; unsigned binding; all volumes have very mild wear, primarily to corners, mild cracking to some hinges; volume 3 has a small hole in the head of the spine; extra illustrated with 650 portraits and 70 views; inlaid pages; with separate title page for the nine volumes in addition to the inlaid title pages; mild scattered foxing; scarce; Shelved above Middle East. More about MEMOIRS OF JOHN EVELYN [NINE VOLUMES

London: William Roybould, 1660. First Edition. 12mo, 359 pages; VG; 3/4 bound in modern burgundy leather, burgundy cloth boards, paneled spine with gilt bands and gilt lettering; top edge of text block gilt; [8], 459 [i.e. 359], [1], page 359 misnumbered 459; title page in red and black; page 103/104 (leaf H4) has both corners torn out, text impacted; with frontispiece of Oliver Cromwell; JG consignment; shelved case 0. More about THE PERFECT POLITICIAN: OR, A FULL VIEW OF THE LIFE AND ACTIONS (MILITARY AND CIVIL) OF O. CROMWEL

New York: The Publishers Printing Co., 1908. First Edition. 8vo., 333pp., v; VG; bound in brown cloth, dull gilt lettering on spine; boards have mild rubbing and wear, 4 small spots of fading on spine; white lettering and pictorial image on front cover; bookplate on front pastedown; SIGNED flat by Harry Houdini on ffep, vertical signature; frontispiece with tissue guard; gutter beginning to tear at first page of illustrations, as appears normal; boards slightly shaken; mild bumping to corners; KS consignment; shelved case 5. More about THE UNMASKING OF ROBERT-HOUDIN [SIGNED

Cambridge, Mass: Privately Printed. University Press, 1945. First Edition, Second Issue. 8vo., 75 pages.; VG/glassine; bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, black label with gilt lettering on front cover; wrapped in original glassine, with only flaws being a set of small scratches to middle of front cover, small tear along lower edge of front flap fold, slight wear to top edge; second issue, with the winged device on the title page printed in black and white, one of 250 copies; INSCRIBED by Ethel Kennedy to her Grandson, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, Jr. Ethel Kennedy was the wife of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.; VK consignment; shelved case 5. More about AS WE REMEMBER JOE [INSCRIBED BY ETHEL KENENDY

Paris: Chez Rollin, Quillau, Desaint, 1726. First Edition. Quartos, 4 volumes; VG-; bound in full brown leather, paneled spines with gilt lettering to two compartments, uniform gilt tooling to the rest; marbled endpapers; general rubbing and scraping to boards, some wear to hinges, chipping to heads and tails of spines, corners; name written in ink on verso on ffeps; purple stamps of the Grand Consistory of Kentucky (Freemasons) on all title page, some other pages; wide margins, with no writing or marginalia in text; with 71 full page portraits, five folding maps, and one plan; Volume 1: 28 portraits, 3 folding maps; Volume 2: 20 portraits, 1 plan; Volume 3: 5 portraits, 2 folding maps; Volume 4: 18 portraits; text in French; shelved case 7. More about HISTOIRE DES CHEVALIERS HOSPITALIERS DE S. JEAN DE JERUSALEM, APPELEZ DEPUIS LES CHEVALIERS DE...

Cambridge, Mass. Privately Printed. University Press, 1945. First Edition, Second Issue. 8vo., 75pp.; VG/no glassine; bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, black label with gilt lettering on front cover; small amount of foxing to top edge of text block; slight wear to head of spine; second issue, with the winged device on the title page printed in black and white, one of 250 copies; VK consignment, shelved in case 5. More about AS WE REMEMBER JOE

Washington, D. C. US Government Printing Office, 1964. First Edition. Octavo, xxiv, 888 pages; VG; bound in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine; slight sun-fading to spine, mild wear to edges, head and tail of spine; SIGNED flat on ffep by Gerald Ford. Representative (and later 38th president) Ford was one of the seven members of the Warren Commission, established by President Johnson to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy.; shelved case 1. More about REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY [SIGNED BY...

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First Edition, First Printing. Thick Octavo, 837 pages; VG-/VG-; spine red with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut ''$27.50', mild closed tears and rubbing; slight rubbing to text block; full page New Year inscription opposite of title page, plus dated inscription on title page, dated January 8m 1985. Both inscriptions are to Jerry Aronson, director of the documentary 'Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg'. ..."I hope your film doesn't get tangled in ideas but can be straightforward chronology if that's possible."; consignment; shelved case 0. More about COLLECTED POEMS 1947-1980 [INSCRIBED BY GINSBERG TO JERRY ARONSON

Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1805-1807. First Edition, Second Issue. Octavos, 5 volumes; VG; newly bound in marbled calf, paneled spines with gilt; marbled endpapers; scattered light penciling throughout; frontispiece of volume 1 offsetting to title page; lacking atlas volume; Second Issue, with 1805 to volumes 1-4, 1807 to volume 5; shelved above Civil War. More about THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON [FIVE VOLUMES

1990. First Edition. Octavo, 88 pages; VG; magazine, slight wear to edges. Some slight staining and damage to the lower-left corner of the front cover where the address label has been removed. The January 8, 1990 issue of People Weekly features a large photo of Princess Diana on the cover, with her flat signature on the front cover in black Sharpie.; Featuring their 11th Annual Readers' Poll, questions relating to Princess Diana include "Who is having more fun, Fergie or Di?", "If you were Princess Di, would you take a lover?", and "If you were Prince Charles, would you take a mistress?". There is a full-page ad on page 74 for 'Diana - The Making of a Princess' on VHS. In an interesting piece of foreshadowing, pages 85-87 features Mohamed Al Fayed and his purchase and restoration of the Paris villa of the late Duke and Duchess of Windsor (King Edward VIII). His son, Dodi Fayed, was in a romantic relationship with Diana, Princess of Wales, with whom he died in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997.; BL consignment; shelved case 5. More about PEOPLE WEEKLY MAGAZINE SIGNED BY PRINCESS DIANA

New York: Doubleday, 1996. First Edition. Octavo; VG/VG; 769 pages; Jacket black with red lettering; Book has been SIGNED by Gorbachev on the title page; Minimal wear to the edges; Jacket not price-clipped; Interior free of marking; SG consignment; Shelved front window. More about MEMOIRS [Signed

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970. First Edition. thick 8vo., 1038pp.; VG/G; spine brown with tan lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut; dust jacket has numerous chips, including large chips to head and tail of spine, with chipping occurring along all edges; interior slightly age-toned; INSCRIBED by Charles Lindbergh to Hunter Harris, with the additional signature of Anne M. Lindbergh, his wife from 1929–1974 (his death); Hunter Harris, Jr. was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Forces (CINCPACAF) from 1964 to 1967, and is addressed by Lindbergh as 'my old friend and fellow air force officer; JH consignment; shelved case 5. More about THE WARTIME JOURNALS OF CHARLES A. LINDBERGH [SIGNED

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Octavo, 316 pages; VG/VG; spine gold with black and white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$5.95', slight chipping to head and tail of spine; bump to upper corner of rear board; signed on ffep, 'Best Regards / Ronald Reagan'; SG consignment; shelved case 5. More about WHERE'S THE REST OF ME - THE RONALD REAGAN STORY [SIGNED

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 275 pages; VG/Fair; spine beige with red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '15s. net'; dust jacket missing the middle third of the spine, small chips to other parts of spine, tape to head and tail; spine of boards slightly age-toned; spine cocked; top edge of text block red; INSCRIBED on ffep to Don-Tudor Wilkinson, Paris 1954, with his bookplate a the bottom of the page; shelved case 5. More about MADAME DE POMPADOUR [SIGNED

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo., 144 pp., [50 pp.], VG-/VG-; white and black lettering to tan spine, black-and-white photograph to front cover; fading to spine, lettering legible; shelfwear to covers, chipping with material loss to head of spine, slight superficial material loss to corners; price clipped; black cloth boards, gold lettering to spine; fading to spine (lettering slightly affected yet bright and legible); wear to boards, mild spotting with gray discoloration towards hinge of spine to front board; boards shaken/cocked, no shelf lean, binding strong, casing somewhat loose, boards firmly attached to text-block; age-toning/wear to text-block, scattered foxing to top, slight foxing to fore-edge; starting hinge to back of copy between 2 unpaginated black-and-white photographic plates; recto of bfep stuck to verso of last photographic plate to top margin of leaves at gutter; very occasional mild foxing to interior, text clear and legible; "First Printing, 1965" stated to copyright page; contains unpaginated section of photographs courtesy of Sports Magazine to back of volume; INSCRIPTION to title page reads "For Don Loos / with every best wish and memories of shooting baskets together years ago / John McPhee / December 1, 1965"; LP consignment; shelved Case 5, Dupont. More about A SENSE OF WHERE YOU ARE: A PROFILE OF WILLIAM WARREN BRADLEY

London: W. Battersby, 1701. Third Edition. Folio, [36], 633, [4], 63, [1], 636-658, [12]; VG; bound in contemporary speckled leather, hollow rectangle of polished leather with blind tooling in each board; rebacked with 20th century spine, burgundy label with gilt lettering; with 22 illustrated portraits; lacking frontispiece; 'The history of the Chaldaick philosophy' (pts. 14-19) has separate dated title page, with imprint "printed for A. and J. Churchill", and separate pagination.; bookplate of Richard Brinsley Sheridan on front pastedown; ESTC T102824; JW consignment; shelved case 4. More about THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: CONTAINING LIVES, OPINIONS, ACTIONS AND DISCOURSES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS...

New York: Harper, 1955. First Edition, Early Printing. Octavo; VG-/VG-; White and blue spine with blue and red lettering; 266 pages; early printing, lacking the 'First Edition M-E' code; Book is SIGNED by Kennedy (with a secretarial signature #3) to George Killion, Democratic donor and ship industry leader, on the ffep; Jacket has some wear along the edges, a few closed tears to the front and rear edges of the jacket, mostly 1.5" and under, larger closed tear near upper edge of rear at spine; some additional creasing to rear of jacket, now covered by mylar brodart, price uncut '$3.50'; cloth boards have edge wear; Binding tight; Text block clean with some typical age toning; BL Consign; Shelved case 5 or Window. More about PROFILES IN COURAGE [SECRETARIAL SIGNED

London: Humphrey Moseley, 1654. Quarto, [20], 190, [1] pages; VG; bound in full contemporary brown leather, rebacked with a later spine with gilt lettering and tooling; boards have moderate scarring, rubbing, and scuffing; engraved title as frontispiece and eleven full-page engraved plates; frontispiece with archival backing, slight trimming to the fore edge; some intermittent archival repair; with order to print in rear; translated from the French; shelved case 4. More about CURIA POLITIAE: OR, THE APOLOGIES OF SEVERAL PRINCES: JUSTIFYING TO THE WORLD THEIR MOST EMINENT...

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1834. Octavos, 2 volumes; VG-; bound in period speckled calf, newly rebacked with paneled brown leather spines, black labels with gilt titling; marbled textblocks and endpapers; ex-library, with stamp to each title page, possible other markings; with each volume having a frontispiece and engraved title page; volume 1 with a plate of Franklin's handwriting, volume 2 with 11/12 plates, lacking plate 10; shelved case 1. More about MEMOIRS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [TWO VOLUMES

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 544 pages; VG/VG-; spine white with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$24.95'; mild wear and rubbing to dust jacket; mild spotting to text block; sticker on front cover reading 'Autographed copy'; SIGNED flat on title page by Muhammad Ali; BL consignment; shelved case 5. More about MUHAMMAD ALI - HIS LIFE AND TIMES [SIGNED BY MUHAMMAD ALI

College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1997. Limited Edition, 1/1250. Square Quarto, 147 pages; VG; bound in publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, housed in a VG blue cloth slipcase, with seal of the US on front cover; SIGNED by both Bush and Valdez on two separate limitation pages, additionally inscribed on the title page by Valdez; shelved case 5. More about GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH ; A PHOTOGRAPHIC PROFILE [SIGNED BY BUSH AND VALDEZ

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874/1885/1887. Mixed Editions. Octavos, 8 volumes; VG; bound in uniform three quarters brown calf with marbled boards and endpapers, paneled spines two two panels having lettering, date on tail; bound by Roger de Coverly & Sons; top edge of text block gilt; bookplates to front pastedowns; mild rubbing and wear; Series One: Second Edition 1874; Series Two: 1885; Series Three: 1887; shelved above Vietnam War. More about THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS: A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV., KING WILLIAM IV AND QUEEN...

London, England: Various, 1787-1796. EARLY EDITIONS (Mixed Set). Octavos, 14 volumes, VG-; full leather acid washed boards: boards recased, with signs of repair to hinges and gutters of endpapers; six compartments (no panels) to spine, black title blocks age-toned green, gilt lettering to title blocks, gilt illustrations to three compartments, gilt motif to spine; gilt decorative single-ruled borders to edges of boards, board edges and turn-ins; brown and green marbled text-blocks: mild-to-moderate rubbing to backs, gilt lettering and gilt tooling somewhat affected yet legible/clear; mild rubbing/light scratching to most boards; mild bumping to head, tail, and corners; with slight chipping/material loss to most boards (see additional notes to each volume); mild wear/fading to text-blocks; labels from previous owner to front paste-downs; mild age-toning/light scattered foxing to interiors, text somewhat faded clear yet legible; thin moiré ribbons to interiors, Stanford University bookmarks to most volumes; each volume housed in its own VG- maroon slipcase; frontispieces to Vols. 1-12; Vols. 1-12 printed for T. Longman, et al.; VOL. 1 [LIFE OF JOHNSON; POEMS & PLAYS; sticker from previous bookseller to verso of ffep]; VOL. 2 [PHILOLOGICAL TRACTS, POLITICAL ESSAYS & MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS: corners of boards bumped more so than other volumes]; VOL. 3 [GREEK COMEDY, et cetera: small moderate scratch to front board, diagonal scratch to back board]; VOL. 4 [THE RAMBLER, PART 1]; VOL. 5 [THE RAMBLER, PART 2]; VOL. 6 [THE RAMBLER, PART 3: front board beginning to detach from hinge, mild soiling to top margin of title page and verso of ffep, small dark brown imperfection to front board; VOL. 7 [THE IDLER]; VOL. 8 [MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, et cetera; small dark moderate scratches to front and back boards, small area of dark residue to back board]; VOL. 9 [LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS, PART 1]; VOL. 10 [LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS, PART 2: small spot of residue to front board]; VOL. 11 [LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS, PART 3]; VOL. 12 [LIVES OF EMINENT PERSONS, et cetera: dent and small dark scratches to back board]; VOL. 13 [DEBATES 1740-1741: part of an early edition of 13 volumes, pub. 1787, printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London: light scratches to front board; originally "VOL. XII" to title page, changed by previous owner in ink to "VOL. XIII"]; VOL. 14 [DEBATES 1741-1742: part of earlier edition of 13 volumes, pub. 1787 (same set as VOL. 13), printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London: originally "VOL. XIII" to title page, changed by previous owner in ink to "VOL. XIV"; shelved above oversized Art Books, end of aisle B. More about WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON [14 VOLUMES

London: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Limited Edition [#894/1050]. Quartos, 5 volumes; VG-; brown cloth boards, small black lettering affixed to beige title labels: mild scratching/scuffing to boards, boards somewhat shaken, mild wear/fading to bright gilt tops, age-toning to deckled fore-and bottom edges of text-block, bumping to corners and along edges of boards; title labels to spines affixed yet beginning to detach; VOL. 1 [red ink staining to gilt top (more wear/fading to top than other volumes); spine cracked between and staining to pp. 240-241 (text affected); notations in pencil to both paste-downs]; VOL. 2 [ex-libris bookplate to front paste-down; mild staining to p. 62 (text unaffected)]; VOL. 3 [scuffing to front board more so than Vols. 1-2, 5; interior clean]; VOL. 4 [scuffing to front board, more so than Vols. 1-2, 5; ex-libris bookplate to front paste-down; interior clean]; VOL. 5 [ex-libris bookplate to front paste-down; interior clean]; boards protected by plastic wrappers; one of Plutarch's biographical works; No. 894 of 1050 copies for sale in England stated to limitation page; heavy set, contact us for shipping costs; shelved above Greek/Roman history. More about NORTH'S PLUTARCH: THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANES COMPARED TOGETHER BY THAT GRAVE...

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First American Edition. 8vo., xii, 377pp.; VG/G; spine red and white with black lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, moderate bumping and shelfwear, including rips to lower edges, head and tail of spine, corners; price cut; interior clean; includes 28 illustrations; text block has smudges to lower fore corner, speckling to top; shelved case 5. More about A ROVING COMMISSION - MY EARLY LIFE