Rare books from Long-Champ

This is a three volume set that I purchased new. It has been on my bookshelf ever since. I have leafed through the volumes but otherwise it is unmolested. The box it comes in is made of cardboard and it has very minor dents or dings.

First edition/Facsimile. Hardcover (Original Cloth). This book was opened more to list it on this site than in the rest of its existance. The Binding is such that the pages open as if in a new book. I purchased it in 2009 and it has been on my book shelf ever since. There is no evidence of any wear except that the dust jacket has some slight waves or creases.
"The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then." Carl Jung in 1957, referring to… Read More

Sotheby's catalogues from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Auction from September 11-19, 1997. New York: Sotheby's, 1997.
First edition soft covers with slip case. A three volume set with slip case of items auctioned from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor estate on September 11-19, 1997 (which was not held until February 1998 due to the death of Princess Diana.)
The first volume is an introduction to the sale and the Windsors. It contains multiple essays on the couple, their lineage, their life, photographs of them, and much more.
The second volume contains lots 1-1789 and includes property from the public rooms of the Windsor's former residence in Paris and historical material.
The third volume contains lots 1790-3111 of the same.
Other than a slight smear or discoloration on the binding of 1 vol. Otherwise, these have never been fully opened and as such now open as new.
I obtained them new and they have been on my bookshelf since then.
They are very heavy.