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New York: HarperCollins Publishers / Zondervan, 1994. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/fine. Signed first edition of Standing Firm by Vice President Dan Quayle, with an inscription to Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton.. Octavo, xiv, 402pp. Blue hardcover, blue cloth spine, title in gilt on spine with gilt facsimile signature on front cover. Stated "first edition" with full number line on copyright page. Solid text block, faint foxing to edges, a near fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $25.00 retail price on front flap, fine. Signed by Vice President Dan Quayle on the half-title page: "To Ike and Susan - With warm friendship - Dan Quayle.

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1957. Presentation Edition. Cloth. Very good. Inscribed by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, a presentation copy of The Reverend Alexander John Forsyth and His Invention of the Percussion Lock.. Octavo, 35pp. Beige cloth, title in blue on front cover. Stated "Reprinted 1957" on copyright page. Solid text block, faint soiling to front cover, small scratch to rear cover. Newspaper clippings affixed to rear panel. Inscribed by the Queen Mother: "Brikhall / Elizabeth R / August 31st 1960" on the front free endpaper. Additional signatories include: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, the 5th Marquess of Salisbury and his wife Elizabeth Salisbury; Lord Donne; Rachel Bowles Lyon; George Frederick Laurence Hyde Villiers, the 7th Earl of Clarendon; and Major Charles Murray Kennedy St Clair, the 17th Lord Sinclair. Queen Elizabeth (1900-2002) inscribed this copy while residing in the popular royal holiday town of Birkhall, Scotland. Upon the ascension of King George VI in 1936, the… Read More

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. Second Edition. Cloth. Near fine. First edition of the Memoir Of The Life Of John Quincy Adams by Josiah Quincy.. Octavo, x, 429pp. Publisher's textured brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Yellow endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of J.Q. Adams with tissue cover, foxing to portrait. Solid text block. Previous ownership inscription on front endpaper of R & D.G. Siegel. (Sabin 67218) An attractive example of this early biography of President John Quincy Adams. The first edition appeared in 1858, also printed by Phillips, Sampson and Company of Boston.