Adelman, Jeremy. Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic world. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. x, 376 pp. Cloth in lightly worn jacket. $35. More

Association of American Law Schools. Anatomy of Modern Legal Education: An Inquiry into the Adequacy and Mobilization of Certain Resources in American Law Schools. St. Paul, [MN]: West Publishing Co., 1961. xxi, 517 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine and cover. Light shelfwear. Internally clean. $75. * Contents: Summary..... More

With a Laid-in Photo of John Knox and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Bent, Silas [1882-1945]. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., [1932]. xi, 386 pp. Plates. Hardcover cloth, light shelfwear, faint dampstaining to bottom edge of boards, in lightly edgeworn and moderately..... More

Notable for Its Insights into Seventeenth-Century Legal Practice [Booth, William, Attributed]. The Compleat Sollicitor, Performing His Duty: And Teaching his Clyent to Run Through and Manage His Own Business, As Well in His Majesties Superior Courts at Westminster: As in the Mayors Court, Court of Hustings, And Other Inferiour Courts..... More

Callahan, Cornelius P. The Search for Truth. An Introduction to the Jury Trial Process. Chicago: Sextant Press, 1997. xiii, 288 pp. Cloth in lightly worn dust jacket, author presentation inscription to front free endpaper, publisher presentation card laid in. $125. * "This book removes the myth and mystery from the..... More

Clarke, Fabius M[aximus]. California Corporation Law Governing Ordinary Business Corporations: As Contained in the Codes and Other Statutory Law: Decisions of the Supreme Court Reported in Vols. 1 to 170, Inclusive: Of the District Courts of Appeal Reported in Vols. 1 to 28, Inclusive: And of Both in Vols. 1..... More

Daigaku, Kyushu. Kakalog [i.e. Katalog] der Bibliothek von Wolfgang Kunkel. [Wolfgang Kunkel Library Catalog]. [Fukuoka: Kyushu University Library], 1988. xiv, 660 pp. Publisher's printed wraps, softbound. Preface in German and Japanese. Bibliographical items in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish and Spanish. A very good copy. $65. More

McDade 297: One of the Most Sensational American Trials of the Early 1800s [Trial]. Fairbanks, Jason, Defendant. Report of the Trial of Jason Fairbanks, On an Indictment for the Murder of Miss Elizabeth Fales. At the Supreme Court, Holden at Dedham, in the County of Norfolk, On Thursday the 6th..... More

Fisher, Bernard C. Harrison, Leonard Vance, [1891-1969]. Justice for Youth: The Courts for Wayward Youth in New York City; Report and Proposals of the Committee on Public Affairs. New York: Bureau of Public Affairs, Community Service Society of New York, 1955. viii, 154 pp. Softcover. Moderately worn and soiled with..... More

Guy, William A. John Howard's Winter's Journey. London: Thos. de la Rue, 1882. viii, 78, [10] pp. Printed slip inserted before title "From the Author". Original cloth, with gilt stamped spine, moderate shelf wear, internally clean. $20. * A history of the remarkable man, John Howard, the Philanthropist. More

Haskins, George Lee, [1915-1991]. Herbert A. Johnson. Foundations of Power: John Marshall, 1801-1815. Volume II of The History of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. New York: Macmillan, [1981]. First edition. xiv, 687 pp. 24 unnumbered pages of plates. Red and green cloth with..... More

Inscribed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. to Lady Evelyn Charteris Vesey, Viscountess de Vesci, a Member of the Influential British Intellectual Circle Known as the Souls Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841-1935). Speeches. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). [vi], 86 pp. Original printed paper-covered boards, top..... More

Kadish, Sanford H. Paulsen, Monrad G. Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials. Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. Second edition. li, 1462 pp. Three-quarter calf over red cloth with raised bands and gilt stamped spine. Lightly worn and soiled. Patterned endpapers. Internally clean. A very good copy in a special..... More

Kocourek, Albert, [1875-1952], Editor. Celebration Legal Essays, By Various Authors to Mark the Twenty-fifth Year of Service of John H. Wigmore, as a Professor of Law in Northwestern University. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1919. xi, 602 pp. Portrait. Publisher's buckram with gilt lettering pieces to spine and emblem to front..... More

Lowe, Boutelle Ellsworth. The International Protection of Labor: International Labor Organization, History and Law. New York: Macmillan Company, 1935. New edition. lxxiii, 594 pp. Cloth with gilt lettered spine and blind stamped front cover. Moderately worn and soiled. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Residual card..... More

"The Stagnation of Matrimony": A Radical 1772 Proposal to Reform the Marriage Market [Marriage]. [Great Britain]. Considerations on the Causes of the Present Stagnation of Matrimony, Under the Following Heads. I. The Unreasonable Degree of Influence and Authority which Most Parents Exercise Over Their Children in the Concern of Marriage..... More

[California. Probate Court (San Francisco)]. Milton H[ills] Myrick, [1826-1907]. T[imothy] H[enry] Rearden, [1839-1892]. Reports of Cases in the Probate Court of the City and County of San Francisco: From January 1, 1872, to December 31, 1879. San Francisco: Sumner Whitney & Co., 1880. xxi, 328 pp. Spine title: Myrick's California..... More

Ogar, Richard. The Poet's Eye: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Berkeley, [Calif.]: Friends of The Bancroft Library, 1997. 127 pp. Softcover. Near-fine. Internally clean. $20. * Contents: My Life with Lawrence, Richard Ogar; Still Here: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Foley; On the Beach, Feeling for the Ground, Tom Clark; Reading at..... More

Orren, Karen. Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States. Cambridge, [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, [1991]. x, 238 pp. Softcover. Near-fine with light soiling to front cover. Internally clean. $20. * Contents: Introduction: Liberalism and Labor in Developmental Perspective; The Transition to Liberalism and the Remnant..... More

The (Fictional) Trial of President McKinley for War Crimes Parks, Samuel C. [1820-1917]. The Great Trial of the Nineteenth Century. Kansas City, MO: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1900. 137 pp. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine, patterned endpapers. Negligible light rubbing to boards and extremities. A few slight cracks to..... More

A New Hampshire Prison "For Juvenile and Female Offenders" [Prisons]. [New Hampshire]. "House of Reformation for Juvenile and Female Offenders Against the Laws" To be Erected for the State of New Hampshire at Manchester. Under the Direction of Hon. Frederick Smith, Hon. Matthew Harvey and Hon. Hosea Eaton, Commissioners. William..... More

Sallmann, P[eter] A. Chappell, Duncan. Rape Law Reform in South Australia: A Study of the Background to the Reforms of 1975 and 1976 and of Their Subsequent Impact. Adelaide: Adelaide Law Review Association, University of Adelaide, 1982. x, 110 pp. Softcover. Moderately worn and soiled. Front two leaves detached. Internally..... More

Smith, Horace, [1836-1922]. Whittaker, W[illiam] H[enry], [1853-1915], Editor. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence. St. Louis: F.H. Thomas Law Book Co., 1886. First American from Second English edition. xxi, 606 pp. Contemporary law sheep with raised bands and gilt stamped red lettering piece to spine. Worn and scuffed. Previous..... More

A Significant Challenge to the U.S. Postal Service Spooner, Lysander [1808-1887]. The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails. New York: Tribune Printing Establishment, 1844. 24 pp. Octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in self-wrappers. Negligible light shelfwear, light toning and foxing. A well-preserved copy. $500. * First..... More

Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames [1829-1894]. A General View of the Criminal Law of England. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890. ix, 399 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary pebbled cloth, black-stamped frames to boards, gilt title and black-stamped fillets to spines. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities with wear..... More

Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law. Foreword by William W. Bishop, Jr.. Lectures on International Law and the United Nations: Delivered at University of Michigan Law School, June 23-28, 1955. [Ann Arbor, Mich.]: University of Michigan Law School, [1957]. 566 pp. Softcover. Moderate shelfwear and soiling. Ex-library with shelf..... More

[Trial]. Carswell, Donald, Editor. Trial of Ronald True. Edinburgh and London: William Hodge and Company, Ltd, [1950]. New edition. 295 pp. Frontispiece and four additional illustrated plates. Original red cloth with gilt lettered spine. Ex-library with property stamps and shelf location label at foot of spine. Title page and verso..... More

He Beat Her to Death with a Shovel: McDade 300 [Trial]. Farmer, Daniel Davis [1793-1822], Defendant. Rogers, Artemas, Reporter. Chase, Henry B. [1776 or 1777-1854], Reporter. Trial of Daniel Davis Farmer, For the Murder of the Widow Anna Ayer, At Goffstown, On the 4th of April, A.D. 1821. Concord [NH]..... More

Conspiracy to Suppress a Will [Trial]. Hodgson, Thomas Bent, Primary Defendant. Report of the Trial of Thomas Bent Hodgson, Esq. And Others Charged With a Conspiracy, At the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, London, On Wednesday & Thursday, The 21st & 22d of December 1831, By a Special Jury, Before..... More

"One of Those Legal Marathons Peculiar to the United States": McDade 576 [Trial]. Kring, Charles F. [1845-1883], Defendant. [Kring, Eugene]. Love and Law, In Two Parts. Part I. The Only True History of the Killing of Mrs. Dora C.J. Broemser, by Chas. F. Kring: Together with the Autobiography of the..... More

One of the Great Scandals of Georgian England [Trial]. Wardle, G[wyllym] L[loyd] [1762?-1833], Reporter. Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany [1763-1827], Defendant. A Circumstantial Report of the Evidence and Proceedings Upon the Charges Preferred Against His Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Capacity of Commander in..... More

The Trial of "Weeping Billy" [Trials]. Greenaway, Thomas, Defendant. Duncan, William, Defendant. Maycock, John, Defendant. Pope, John, Defendant. Augustus, John, Defendant. The Trial of Weeping Billy, For the Wilful Murder of Ann Webb. Also, the Trials of William Duncan, For the Wilful Murder of W. Chivers, Esq., John Maycock and..... More

Waples, Rufus, [1825-1902]. A Treatise on Attachment and Garnishment. Chicago, Callaghan and Co., 1885. lxii, 641 pp. Contemporary law sheep with raised bands and gilt stamped red lettering piece to spine. Worn and scuffed. Previous owner's inscription "C.L. Lewis/ Rapid City/ D.J." to front pastedown. Some offsetting to edges of..... More

[Wharton School. United States. Securities and Exchange Commission]. A Study of Mutual Funds: Prepared for the Securities and Exchange Commission. Report of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, pursuant to section 136 of the Legislative reorganization act of 1946, Public law 601, 79th Congress, and House Resolution 108, 87th..... More

Woods, G.D. A History of Criminal Law in New South Wales: The Colonial Period, 1788-1900. Annandale, New South Wales: Federation Press, 2002. xx, 460 pp. Cloth in near-fine dust jacket. $35. More