101. Updike, John / Ford, President Gerald.

Memories of the Ford Administration. A Novel.

First Trade Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo. 371 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by President Gerald Ford on the halftitle. Also signed and beautifully inscribed by John Updike on the endpaper: “Read this book – it feels unread” / Includes also a typed note in which John Updike asks the recipient of this signed book to refrain from any future attempts to send him books for signing: “Recent changes in postal regulations have made the task of signing and sending back books more complicated than before…..So i ask you to make this your last shipment; any books henceforth received from you will be donated to the local church book fair……”

102. Vallarta, El C. Ignacio L. / Avila, Eleuterio /

Memoria que en cumplimiento del Precepto Constitucional Presentó al Congreso de la Union en el primer periodo de sus Sesiones el C. Ignacio L. Vallarta (Secretario de Estado y del Despacho de Relaciones Exteriores) / Bound with Appendix I (Anexo I): Anexo al Informe del Agente de Mexico ante la Comision de Reclamaciones (Reclamaciones de D. Jorge L. Hammeken) / Bound with Appendix II (Anexo II): Comision Mixta de Reclamaciones de Mexico y Los Estados-Unidos. Thaddeus Amat, Obispo de Monterey, y Joseph S. Alemany, Arzobispo de San Francisco, Con Mexico //

Mexico, Imprenta de Gonzalo A . Esteva, 1878. Folio. XXVI, 197 pages / Indice I: 17 pages / Indice II: 35 pages / Indice III: 17 pages / Indice IV: 2 pages / Appendix / Anexi: 291 pages. Original Hardcover (half leather). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Cancelled from the University of London Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, this rare publication was bequeathed to the University from the library of Charles Henry Huberich.

103. Argentina – Vidal. E.E.

Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty=four Views: Accompanied with Descriptions of the Scenery and of the Costumes, Manners, &c. of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their Environs.

No.1987 of a limited edition. London, R.Ackermann, 1943. Quarto. XXVIII, 115 pages with 24 plates in colour (several of the folding out). Hardcover / De Luxe Edition of this Reprint in quarter leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Personalized gift-copy, signed by former co-workers of the recipient.

104. Viereck, Peter.

Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals – Babbitt Jr. vs. the Rediscovery of Values. [″A powerful, often violent, often eloquent, often bitterly sardonic attack on mushy liberalism” – Gilbert Highet in Harper’s].

First Edition – Second Printing. Boston, The Beacon Press, 1953. 8°. XVI, 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent FINE / FINE condition. From the library of american poet Peter Viereck. Signed by Peter Viereck on the endpaper.

105. Virga, Vincent.

Eyes of the Nation – A Visual History of the United States.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 24 cm x 31 cm. 399 pages. With more than 500 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

106. Webster, Daniel.

Speech of Hon. Daniel Webster, to the Young Men of Albany. Wednesday, May 28, 1851. / And : Mr. Webster’s Speeches at Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany, May 1851.

Two (2) Original Pamphlets. (n.p.), Gideon & Co., (1851). 8°. 29, 56 pages. Softcover. Original brochures in very good condition. Only a little dusty.

107. White, Theodore.

“Negro Violence – The Black and White Picture. A distinguished reporter analyses a gathering storm that civil rights and desegregation alone cannot contain, and that may transform the American way of life beyond recognition”.

Reader’s Digest ARticle, c.1966. Octavo. 6 pages. Extracted, stapled original pages from a Reader’s Digest publication. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Disturbing, very ambivalent article by Theodore White, condensing his thought about the “biological anarchy” of collapsing Negro communities after the uprising and riots of 1964 and 1965; “Teenage Savages” (″Negroes and Puerto Ricans of the late teens and early 20’s. These teenagers are an element that no one knows how to handle. Denied love or dignity or patrimony or tradition or any culture but television, they rock around on the deck of an unstable society, their bread given to them by underpaid welfare workers, their hopes at zero, their mothers despised, their hearth the gutter, a sub-culture in a general American urban culture which itself does not know where it is going”).

108. Wilder, Thornton.

The Ides of March – A Novel [including a vintage photograph of Thornton Wilder during his visit to Frankfurt, Germany in the year 1957 when he accepted the german literary Prize “Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels”].

First Edition (Letters M – W). New York, Harper & Brothers, 1948. Octavo. VIII, 246 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The dustjacket price-clipped and slightly frayed only. Small sticker of former owner on pastedown: “Mrs. Raymond Ziesmer – Appletree Farm, Julian, California”. The excellent photograph measures 17,5 cm x 23,5 cm. The original and rare press-photograph is titled on the back and the story of the picture is told: (Translates:) “….Thornton Wilder arrived on the 11th of September 1957 on the airport in Frankfurt…On August 6th 1957 he received the “Peace-price of the german Bookseller Association in the Paulskirche [Frankfurt]”.

109. Abolitionism – Woolman, John.

Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes – Recommended to the Professors of Christianity of every Denomination. In: “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount Holly, in the Province of New Jersey, North America. To which are added, His works, containing his last Epistle and other Writings”.

First Irish Edition. Dublin, Printed by R.M.Jackson, 1794. Octavo. XV, 464 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century full leather with original spine-label. Binding firm but rubbed with some minro damaged to the boards. Overall in very good condition.