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207. Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938].
Cardozo on the Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921.
Reprint. Birmingham: Legal Classics Library, 1982. 180; 145; v, 142;
190 pp. Calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges
gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Owner bookplate to verso of
front free endpaper, otherwise fine. $95.
* Collected edition of Cardozo’s greatest works including The
Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law,
The Paradoxes of Legal Science and Law and Literature and
Other Essays and Addresses. Concerning Law and Literature,
an early reviewer said that “[i]t has remained for Judge Cardozo to
give us the first real analysis of the literature of the bench (...)
he brings to this task the rare combination of legal and literary
learning”: John A. Garfinkel, California Law Review 19: 654
cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York
University (1953) 1068.  
208. Cohen, Morris L., and Shannon Hamby O’Connor.
A Guide to the Early Reports of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Littleton, Colo.: F.B. Rothman, 1995. xii, 237 pp. Illustrated.
Cloth. New. $52.
* This very useful guide provides historical, biographical, and
bibliographical information on the first ninety volumes of the
United States Reports. A brief introduction to the reporting
process is followed by biographical sketches of the first seven
Court Reporters; the final section is devoted to a volume-by-volume
bibliography, containing a description of the first edition,
contents notes, and a listing of later editions when known.
Handsomely Bound Complete
First-Edition Set of Cranch’s Reports
209. Cranch, William [1769-1855], Reporter.
Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Volume 1, Washington City: Published for John Conrad & Co., 1804;
Volumes 2-3, New York: Printed by and For I. Riley & Co., 1806;
Volume 4, Flatbush, NY: Printed and Published by I. Riley, 1809;
Volumes 5-6, New York: Printed and Published by Isaac Riley, 1812;
Volumes 7-9, Washington City: Printed by Daniel Rapine, 1816-1817.
Nine volumes in all. Octavo (5" x 8"). Recent period-style quarter
calf over cloth, endpapers renewed. A few minor tears and chips,
some mended with archival tape. Early owner signatures to some title
pages, that of Theodore Sedgewick to title page of Volume IV. Light
foxing and browning in some cases, interiors otherwise fresh. A
handsome set. $3,000.
* First editions. With side-notes and indexes. Cranch’s career as
the Supreme Court’s reporter, 1801 to 1815, coincided with the first
fourteen years of Marshall’s tenure as Chief Justice. His Reports
contain Marshall’s early opinions on several fundamental
constitutional issues, which were articulated in such landmark
decisions as Marbury v. Madison (1803) and Fletcher v.
Peck (1810). “Because of the formative role of the Marshall
Court in American constitutional history, the Supreme Court
decisions reported by Cranch have been frequently cited and
intensely studied, and that interest will undoubtedly continue”
(Cohen and O’Connor). Cranch’s volumes are also esteemed for the
quality of their reporting. He followed the court’s proceedings
personally, wrote his own notes in shorthand and examined all
relevant original documents. These practices enabled him to report
arguments with greater accuracy than his predecessor, Alexander
Dallas. Theodore Sedgwick [1746-1813], a prominent Federalist,
member of the Continental Congress and delegate to the convention
that ratified the US Constitution, was a Representative and Senator
from Massachusetts and the fifth Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives. Cohen and O’Connor 31-32, 127-134. See
illustration on page 36.
First Editions of
the First U.S. Supreme Court Reports
210. Dallas, Alexander James [1759-1817], Reporter.
Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of
Pennsylvania, Before and Since the Revolution. Philadelphia:
Printed, for the Reporter, by T. Bradford, 1790.
[And]
Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the
United States, And of Pennsylvania, Held at the Seat of the Federal
Government.
Volume II. Philadelphia: Printed for the Reporter, At the Aurora
Office, 1798; Volume III. Philadelphia: Printed for the Reporter,
1799; Volume IV. Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, By Fry and
Kammerer, 1807.
Four volumes in all. Octavo (5" x 8"). Recent period-style quarter
calf over cloth, endpapers renewed. Faint dampstaining, light foxing
and browning in some places, interiors otherwise fresh. A handsome
set. $2,000.
* First editions. With side-notes and indexes. Later republished as
Volumes 1-4 of United States Reports, Dallas’s Reports
were the first to record cases heard before the U.S. Supreme Court,
which sat in Philadelphia from 1791 to 1801. They are also one of
the first three sets of reports produced in the United States. (The
others are Ephraim Kirby’s Connecticut Reports and Francis
Hopkinson’s Judgements in the Admiralty of Pennsylvania.) The
quality of Dallas’s reporting is a matter of debate, but his
significance is beyond dispute. Cohen and O’Conner offer a fair
assessment: “Although his reports were less satisfying and less
reliable than those of the English reporters of the period, Dallas
provided a record which otherwise would not have been available. He
thereby began a reporting tradition for the Supreme Court which was
to help shape American legal history” (22). Cohen and O’Conner
17-22, 117-124. See illustration below.
211. Scott, Austin W. and Paul A. Freund and John H. Mansfield and
Erwin N. Griswold.
Felix Frankfurter: Talks in Tribute, February 26, 1965.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law
School, 1965. 19
pp. Softbound. Portrait frontispiece. $20.
* Occasional pamphlet number eight.
212. United States Supreme Court Reports Lawyers Edition [1st].
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing. Vols. 1-100 (1790-1956). Original
tan cloth with contrasting red and black lettering pieces.
Ex-library with stamps, many spine labels chipped, moderate shelf
wear, volume 55 rear hinge detached. Internally clean. See digital
image. Publisher’s Price $3,750. Special $895.
* “The distinctive features of the Lawyers Edition are first its
completeness, since it reprints every case in all of the original
reports (U.S. Reports vols. 1-351), and prints some that were
omitted from them; second, the retention, in most cases, of
summaries of the arguments of counsel; third, the addition of
extensive annotations; fourth, retention of original page numbering
in brackets, e.g. (*282), so that the same citations serve for them
and for the original reports; fifth, uniformity in style of printing
throughout the entire series, which is not the fact with the
original reports; and sixth, minimum shelf space required...” Hicks,
Materials and Methods of Legal Research. 3d rev. ed. 141.
213. United States Supreme Court Reports Lawyers Edition 2d ed.
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing. Vols. 1-114 (1956-1990) [with] 1995
Pocket Parts.. Original tan cloth with contrasting red and black
lettering pieces. Some shelfwear to early volumes, else very good.
Ex-library with stamps. Digital image available. Publisher’s Price $2,650. Special $795.
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