Melvin Belli My Life on Trial. First edition. Signed by Belli.
Belli, Melvin M[ouron], [1907-1996]. Kaiser, Robert Blair. Melvin Belli. My Life on Trial. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1976. First edition. 351 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's black cloth very good, in lightly worn, price clipped dust jacket. Boldly signed by Melvin Belli on the front free endpaper. Internally clean. A very good copy. $50. * This book is an autobiography of the notable American trial lawyer writer and actor Melvin Belli, co-authored with journalist Robert Blair Kaiser. Known as the "King of Torts," Belli was a pioneer of modern personal injury law and demonstrative evidence. It chronicles Belli's colorful career with his pioneering legal tactics in major cases including his defense of Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, and his landmark consumer rights case, Escola v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. This book also reflects on his many clebrity clients such as Muhammad Ali, Errol Flynn and The Rolling Stones.
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