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286. Am Jur Proof of Facts [1st].
West Group. Vols. 1-30, complete set without supplements. Ex-private
law firm library with stamps, else very good. Publisher’s Price
$429. Special $195.
* Written by judges, attorneys, and experts in technical,
scientific, and medical fields for use in a wide range of civil
litigation and selected criminal defense topics, including personal
injury/ torts, business torts, and employment, real estate, and
commercial litigation. Provides expert advice on preparing your
case, quickly determining the facts essential to winning your case
and proving them, and determining which cases to take or refer.
Includes strategies, tactics, and practice tips and tools for every
stage of trial preparation. Contains extensive checklists, sample
interrogatories, model discovery forms, sample proofs, diagrams, as
well as artwork and illustrations.  
287. Belli, Melvin.
Modern Trials. Introduction by Roscoe Pound. Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill, [1954-1960]. Volumes 1-5, with 1961 bound supplement,
complete in 6 books. Original tan gilt stamped cloth. Very good.
$150.
288. Jury Selection: The Law, Art, and Science of Selecting a Jury.
Second Edition.
James J. Gobert and Walter E. Jordan. Shepard’s/McGraw-Hill/West
Group. 1 Volume. Cloth. Current through November 2003 supplementary
pamphlet. Ex-county law library with stamps, else very good.
Publisher’s Price $147. Special $75.
* Examines an integrated approach to jury selection, providing the
latest social science methodology and voir dire techniques in order
to help you identify problems, spot personality traits, and isolate
social and political biases that may affect jury decisions. Includes
questions for plaintiff and defense lawyers, and court-proven tips
for making favorable impressions on the jury. Discusses: The Right
to a Jury Trial; Characteristics and Features of the Jury; Community
Analysis: Goals and Methodologies; Investigation of Venire; Mock and
Shadow Juries; Challenges to the Array; Challenges for Cause;
Peremptory Challenges; Civil and Criminal Voir Dire; and Approaches
to Jury Selection. See illustration below.
289. Wellman, Francis L.
The Art of Cross-Examination: With the Cross-Examinations of
Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases. New and Enlarged
Edition. New York: Macmillan Company, 1904. Reprint. Birmingham:
Legal Classics Library, 1983. 404 pp. Calf, decorative gilt stamping,
all edges gilt, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers. Fine. $95.
* “[Wellman’s Cross-Examination] is fascinating alike to
lawyer and layman. He selects some great cross-examiners of the
past and present, and prints extracts from notable cross-examinations,
adding a word of his own to sate curiosity as to the outcome of
the cases...The pages are bright with humor and somber with tragedy.
The reader is richly repaid”: E.R. Buckner, Harvard Law Review
37: 402-404 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection
at New York University (1953) 326.
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