Garner, Bryan A. Taming the Tongue in the Heyday of English Grammar (1711-1851). New York, NY : Grolier Club, 2021. xxv, 299 pp. Color illustrations, plates. Hardcover in dust jacket, fine. Limited to 950 copies, the first 50 of which are numbered and signed by the author. This copy No..... More
A Profound Influence in Pre-Revolutionary America [Care, Henry (1646-1688)]. N[elson], W[illiam] [b.1653], Editor. English Liberties, Or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance. Containing Magna Charta, Charta de Foresta, The Statute De Tallagio, Non Concedendo, The Habeas Corpus Act, And Several Other Statutes; With Comments on Each of Them. Likewise, Of Ship-Money: Of..... More
Includes Early Commentaries on the U.S. Constitution by One of the Framers Wilson, James [1742-1798]. Wilson, Bird [1777-1859], Editor. The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D. Published Under the Direction of Bird Wilson, Esquire. Philadelphia: At the Lorenzo Press, 1804. Three volumes. xvi, 467; vi, 497; iv, 439 pp..... More
Scarce 1566 Edition of Azo's Deeply Influential Summa Azo, Portius [fl. c.1150-c.1230]. Draesius, Heinrich, Editor. Summa Azonis, Locuples Iuris Civilis Thesaurus. Hactenus Depravatissima, Nunc Autem Iugi Sedulitate & Exquisito Studio D. Henrici Draesii LL. Licentiati, In Octies Mille, & Amplius, Locis ex Fide Emendata, Ac Suo Pristino Nitori Recens Restituta..... More
Paul Darrow's Copy Roosevelt, Theodore [1858-1919]. Lodge, Henry Cabot [1850-1924]. Hero Tales from American History. New York: The Century Co., 1895. xiv, [2], 335 pp. Illustrated. Octavo (7-1/2" x 5-1/4"). Publisher's cloth, gilt title and central vignette to front board, gilt title to spine. Light soiling, moderate rubbing and shelfwear..... More
Presented to Paul Darrow Russell, William Clark [1844-1911]. The Book of Authors. A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Mots, Personal Descriptions, Etc. Etc. Etc. Wholly Referring to English Men of Letters in Every Age of English Literature. London: F. Warne and Co.; New York: Scribner, Welford and Co., [1871?]. iv, 516..... More
Inscribed to Clarence Darrow's Niece Bradley, Omar N. A Soldier's Story. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1951. xix, 618 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, near-fine in worn dust jacket with light foxing and soiling, several chips and clean tears and large tear to back panel, illustrated endpapers (maps), internally..... More
Inscribed by Darrow's Granddaughter Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. Farmington. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. vii, [1], 9-255 pp. Cloth, very good with light shelfwear in lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket with a small chip between front panel and front flap. Internally clean, gift inscription "To Joan Scheiber/ With best wishes/..... More
Inscribed by Clarence Darrow to His Son Paul Gomme, George Laurence [1853-1916]. Robinson, W[illiam]. H[eath]. [1872-1944]. The Queen's Story Book: Being Historical Stories Collected out of English Romantic Literature in Illustration of the Reigns of English Monarchs from the Conquest to Queen Victoria. New York: Longmans Green and Co., 1898..... More
Rhyne, Charles S. [Weinberger, Caspar W.] International Law. The Substance, Processes, Procedures and Institutions for World Peace with Justice. Washington, D.C.: CLB Publishers, Inc. 1971. 656 pages. A very good hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. With bookplate on front pastedown "From the Library of Caspar W. Weinberger." Internally clean..... More
A Gift for Darrow's Son Paul From a Feminist Writer and Suffragist Harraden, Beatrice [1864-1936]. In Varying Moods: Short Stories. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. [x], 274, [2], 32 pp. With 34 pp. of publisher advertisements at rear. Octavo (7-1/4" x 4-3/4"). Publisher's green cloth, black-stamped title to front..... More
Inscribed to Darrow by a Feminist Writer and Suffragist Harraden, Beatrice [1864-1936]. Ships That Pass in the Night. London: Lawrence and Bullen, Ltd., 1900. viii, 220, 12 pp. With 12-pp. publisher catalogue. Publisher's green cloth, black-stamped ornament and author name to front board, gilt fillets and title to spine. Light..... More
Presented to Clarence Darrow by W.W. Denslow Stoddard, Charles Warren [1843-1909]. Denslow, W.W. [1856-1915], Illustrator. A Cruise Under the Crescent. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, [1898]. [iv], 358 pp. With black-and-white illustrations. Octavo (8" x 5-1/4"). Publisher's pictorial cloth, top-edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edges, black-and-white illustration to front..... More
Clarence Darrow's Copy Wells, H.G. [1866-1946]. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. xix, [1], 648; x, [2], 676 pp. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Publisher's red textured cloth, central embossed vignette to front boards, gilt titles and volume numbers to..... More
With Darrow's Personal Book Label Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. A Persian Pearl and Other Essays. Boston: The Stratford Company, [1931]. 160 pp. Original textured blue cloth, gilt title to front board and spine, deckle fore and bottom edges. Light rubbing to extremities, faint offsetting to front free endpaper, internally clean. Leather..... More
Inscribed to Clarence Darrow by a Notable Chicago Journalist Bennett, James O'Donnell [1870-1940]. "Private Joe" Fifer: Memories of War and Peace Imparted in His Ninety-Sixth Year by Joseph W. Fifer at the Request of The Chicago Tribune and Recorded by James O'Donnell Bennett. Bloomington: Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Co., 1936..... More
Inscribed by Clarence Darrow to His Son Paul Kipling, Rudyard [1865-1936]. The Day's Work. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. [viii], 431 pp. Illustrations and tissue-guarded frontispiece. Octavo (8" x 5-1/4"). Publisher's black and gilt-stamped green cloth, top-edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edges. Minor bubbling to head of..... More
Inscribed by the Author to Darrow's Granddaughter Mary Stone, Irving [1903-1989]. Clarence Darrow for the Defense. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1941]. xi, 570 pp. Cloth very good in worn and chipped dust jacket. Internally clean, gift inscription to front free endpaper: "To sweet Mary-/ because she is..... More
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Thomas McDade's Copy [Trial]. Manning, Frederick George [1820-1849], Defendant. Manning, Maria [1821-1849], Defendant. The Bermondsey Murder. A Full Report of the Trial of Frederick George Manning and Maria Manning, For the Murder of Patrick O'Connor, At Minver-Place, Bermondsey, On the 9th of August, 1849. Including Memoirs of Patrick O'Connor, Frederick..... More
Charles Fairman's Copy Robinson, William M. Justice in Grey: A History of the Judicial System of the Confederate States of America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. xxi, 713 pp. Original cloth, light shelfwear, owner signature of Charles Fairman [1897-1988] to front free endpaper, pencil check marks to margins of several..... More
1812 Laws of New York City [New York City]. Laws and Ordinances Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen, And Commonalty of the City of New-York, In Common Council Convened, For the Good Rule and Government of the Inhabitants and Residents of the Said City, Passed During the Mayoralty of..... More
Teeters, Negley K. The Cradle of the Penitentiary: The Walnut Street Jail at Philadelphia, 1773-1835. [Philadelphia?]: Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Prison Society, [1955]. xii, 152 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's cloth, very good in chipped, toned and lightly foxed dust jacket, internally clean. Author inscription "Inscribed for Prof. Gilbert Geis by the..... More
Inscribed to Fred M. Vinson Stimpson, George [1896-1952]. A Book About American Politics. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1952. xi, 554 pp. Publisher's cloth hardcover, very good in worn and lightly foxed and soiled dustjacket, light foxing to edges of text block, internally clean. Author inscription "To My Friend..... More
Theodore Bikel's Copy Hand, Learned [1872-1961]. The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand Collected, And with an Introduction and Notes, By Irving Dilliard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. xxx, [2], 310, [4] pp. Cloth in lightly edgeworn dust jacket, bookplate of Theodore Bikel to front pastedown..... More
New Jersey's Last Colonial-Era Compilation [New Jersey]. Allinson, Samuel [1739-1791], Compiler. Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th Day of April, in the Year of Our Lord 1702, to the 14th Day of January 1776..... More