January 2025
Ablow, Keith. Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony. A Psychological Portrait. New York: St. Martin's Press, [2011]. viii, 236 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2018. Octavo, viii, 236 pp. Deluxe reprint edition, originally published by St. Martin's Press in 2011. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Publisher's..... More
[Beer, Henry Ward (1881-1970). The Majesty of Justice as Exemplified by the Late Justice of the United States Supreme Court Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (Cover title). Address by Henry Ward Beer on the Late Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Reprint from New Jersey Law Journal, December 28, 1939. [5]. Light blue faded printed..... More
Bennett, J.M. Sir Charles Cooper: First Chief Justice of South Australia 1856-1861. [Sydney]: The Federation Press, 2002. xiv, 136 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. Light fading to spine, otherwise fine. $50. * A title in the Lives of Australian Chief Justices series. More
A Souvenir of the American Ice Trade [Broadside]. [Massachusetts]. General Statutes Chap. 161, Sect. 73. Whoever Wilfully Maliciously, And Without Right or License, Cuts, Injures, Mars, Or Otherwise Damages or Destroys, Any Ice, Upon Any Waters Within this State from which Ice is or may be Taken, As an Article..... More
Chin, Gabriel J.; Finkelman, Paul (Editors). Affirmative Action and the Constitution. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998. 3 volumes. General editor Paul Fiinkelman. Edited with Introductions by Gabriel J. Chin. Volume 1. Affirmative Action Before Constitutional Law, 1964-1977; Volume 2. The Supreme Court "solves" the Affirmative Action Issue, 1978-1988; Volume 3..... More
A Scarce 1481 Speyer Imprint of the Clementinae With an Attractive 10-Line Gilt Initial, The Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue Locates Three Copies of this Imprint in North America Clement V [1305-1314], Pope. Andrea, Giovanni d' [c.1270-1348], Glosses. [Constitutiones (Cum Apparatu Joannis Andreae)]. [Speyer: Peter Drach, 21 September 1481]. [74] ff. Collation..... More
Couric, Emily, Editor. Women Lawyers: Perspectives on Success. New York: Law & Business/Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1984. x, 259 pp. Portraits. Cloth in lightly worn dust jacket, editor presentation inscription to front free endpaper. $15. More
Deighan, Maurice. County Court Practice and Procedure. London: Fourmat, 1984. Third edition. xiii, 152 pp. Softcover, light shelfwear. $5. More
Dershowitz, Alan M. Trumped Up. How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy. New York: Bombardier Books, [2017]. 193 pp. Privately printed for members of the Libraries of Gryphon Editons, [2018]. Signed by the author on half-title, "Alan M. Dershowitz". Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker..... More
Dimsdale, Thomas Josiah. The Vigilantes of Montana. Or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains. Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of the Chase, Trial, Capture, and Execution of Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band, Together with the Accounts of the Lives and Crimes of Many of the Robbers and Desperados, the..... More
Donahue, Katherine C. Slave of Allah. Zacarias Moussaoui vs. the USA. London: Pluto Press, [2007]. x, 211 pp. New Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2014. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $25. * In..... More
Financing the Church in England and Wales Ecton, John [d.1730]. Liber Valorum & Decimarum. Being an Account of Such Ecclesiastical Benefices in England and Wales, As Now Stand Charged With, Or Lately were Discharged from the Payment of First-Fruits and Tenths. London: Printed for R. Gosling in Fleetstreet [et al]..... More
[Ehrenzweig, Albert A. (1906-1974)]. A Tribute to Albert A Ehrenzweig [Binding Title], California Law Review, Volume 54, Number 4 (October 1966). [viii], 1419-1866 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth, negligible light rubbing to spine ends and corners, "From A. Ehrenzweig's Library 6/74" and bookplate (of F.R. Goetzl) to front pastedown. $95. * A...... More
With Triple Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Provenance Elwell, John J. A Medico-legal Treatise on Malpractice and Medical Evidence: Comprising the Elements of Medical Jurisprudence. New York: Baker, Voorhies, 1871. Third edition, revised and enlarged. vi, 600 pp. Contemporary law sheep with red and black lettering pieces to spine. Blind frames to boards..... More
Epstein, Laurily Keir, Editor. Women and the News. New York: Hastings House, 1978. xiv, 144 pp. Cloth in moderately worn dust jacket. $15. More
Fenton, Norman. The Prisoner's Family. A Study of Family Counseling in an Adult Correctional System. Palo Alto, CA, 1959. 140 pp. Frontispiece. Cloth in lightly worn dust jacket with somewhat darkened spine, author presentation inscription and brief annotation to front free endpaper. $45. More
Franken, Alex. Das Franzosische Pfandrecht im Mittelalter. 1. (einzige) Abteilung Das Engagement und sein Verhaltnis zu der sogenannten alteren Satzung des deutschen Rechts. Aalen: Scientia Verlag, 1969. Reprint 1879 edition. Hardcover. xii, 340 pp. Very good. $25. * Volume 1, no more published. Includes bibliographical references (pages x-xii). A scholarly..... More
With a Striking Maxwell Dust Jacket Furman, A.L. Chief Counsel. New York: The Macaulay Company, [1934]. 251 pp. Publisher's stamped red cloth, lightly soiled and negligibly shelfworn, in lightly soiled and edgeworn pictoral dust jacket. Moderate toning, light foxing to edges of text block, internally clean. $250. * "A drama..... More
PMM 243: Godwin's Political Justice. A Foundational Text of Philosophical Anarchism and Early Utilitarian Thought Godwin, William. [1756-1836]. An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793. Two volumes, quarto (10-1/2" x 8-1/4"), continuous pagination: xiii, [21], 378;..... More
Heinzelman, Susan Sage, Editor. Wiseman, Zipporah Batshaw, Editors. Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. xii, 387 pp. Illustrations. Softbound, light shelfwear, spot of price-tag residue to front cover. $5. More
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Sir Frederick Pollack. Howe, Mark DeWolfe, Editor. Holmes-Pollock Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock 1874-1932. Introduction by John Gorham Palfrey. Cambridge, [Mass.]: Harvard University Press, 1946. Seventh printing. 2 volumes in one book. Illustrated. Original red cloth with gilt title to..... More
Inscribed to Jack Kemp Hooks, Benjamin L. [1925-2010]. Guess, Jerry. Archer, Dennis W., Foreword. The March for Civil Rights: The Benjamin Hooks Story. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2004. xi, 387 pp. Plates. Illustrations, portraits. Cloth in near-fine dust jacket, presentation inscription to Jack Kemp to front free endpaper, folds to..... More
Horton, C.J. Decision of the Supreme court of the state of Kansas. The constitutionality of the House of representatives of the state of Kansas (known as the Douglass house) discussed and decided. The case of in re Gunn. Proceedings in habeas corpus. The written opinion of Chief Justice Horton, concurred..... More
PMM 224: A Landmark Study of Prisons Howard, John [1726-1790]. The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, And an Account of Some Foreign Prisons and Hospitals. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres; And Sold by T. Cadell, 1780. [vi], 449, [19] pp. 11 copperplates, 9 folding..... More
[Howard, John (1726-1790)]. The Story of John Howard the Prison-Reformer. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1899. 199 pp. Lithograph portrait frontispiece. Octavo (6-1/2' x 4-1/2"). Calf schoolprize binding by Allman and Son, London, blind fillets to boards, gilt school crest to front board, gilt spine with raised bands and lettering..... More
Howell, Alfred, [1836-1911]. Admiralty Law, Canada; The Rules, 1893, Annotated, with Forms, Tables of Fees, and Statutes, and a Treatise on the Matters Subject to the Jurisdiction of Admiralty Courts in Canada. Toronto: Carswell Co., 1893. xxvi, 356 pp. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt black..... More
Howell, J.B., Editor. Cheney, Frances Neel, [1906-1996], Introduction author. Special Collections in Libraries of the Southeast. Jackson, Miss.: Howick House, 1978. xii, 423 pp. Red cloth with gilt stamped spine. Fine. Internally clean. $15. * a directory of special collections held by libraries throughout the Southern United States, providing specific..... More
A Rare Account, Issued in Parts, of the "Edgewear Road Murderer" Huish, Robert [1777-1850]. The Life of James Greenacre, Who Was Executed at the Old Bailey for the Brutal Murder of Mrs. Hannah Brown. Embracing also an Authentic History of the Life of His Accessory Sarah Gale. Embellished with Correct..... More
A Rare Commentary on a Controversial Verdict [Hussey, Charles (d.1818)]. Argument for the Innocence of Charles Hussey, With Remarks upon the Danger of Giving Too Much Credit to Presumptive Evidence. London: Printed & Published by A. Christie, [1818?]. 24 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light toning, leaves..... More
Kale, Madhavi. Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, And Indian Indentured Labor Migration in the British Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 235 pp. Cloth in near-fine dust jacket. $30. More
Lea, Henry C. Superstition and Force. Essays on The Wager of Law - The Wager of Battle - The Ordeal - Torture. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1870. Second edition, revised. [xii], 480 pp. Reprint The Legal Classics Library, 2013. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker..... More
Lewis, Anthony. Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. New York: Random House, [1991]. x, 354 pp. Cloth in moderately lightly dust jacket, author presentation inscription to half-title. $25. * Tells the story of the Sullivan case against the New York Times and the history and evolution..... More
Lopez, Antoinette Sedillo (Series Editor). Latinos in the United States. History, Law and Perspective. New York: Garland Pub., 1995. 6 volumes. Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez was series editor and authored the introductions. Volume titles include: Volume I, Historical Themes and Identity: Mestizaje and Labels; Volume II, Latina Issues: Fragments of..... More
The Library of a Distinguished Lawyer and Politician Merwin-Clayton Sales Company. [Lore, Charles B. (1831-1911)]. The Law Library of the Late Judge Charles B. Lore of Wilmington, Del. Together with Miscellaneous Books from His Library and a Collection of Etchings, Engravings, Oil Paintings, Etc. (In Three Alphabets) To be Sold..... More
A Notorious Bank Robber and Confidence Man (and Folk Antihero) [Trial]. MackCoull, James, Defendant [1763-1820]. Memoir of the Life and Trial of James MackCoull, Or Moffat, Who Died in the County Jail of Edinburgh on the 22d December 1820; Containing a Full Account of His Trial Before the Jury Court..... More
Pocket-Sized Proof of a Degree Conferral [Manuscript]. Marinellus, Johannes Baptista. Jacobus Columna, Baro Romanus, Prothonot[ariu]s Aposto[li]s, De Numero Participantiu[m], Ac Veriusq[ue] Signature S[erenissi]mi D.N. Pape Referendarius, In Civitate Montis Alti, Ac Totius Presidatus Gntis Guber[nat]or.... Montalto (Marche?), February 10, 1618. 6 pp., 3 blank ff. Quarto (7" x 5"; 17.8..... More
[Merwin Sales Company]. [John Thompson Brown]. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Old American Law Books, the property of John Thompson Brown, Esq., of Evington, Campbell County, Virginia. including rare early Virginia session-laws, journals of the House of Burgesses, Proceedings of the Convention of Virginia Delegates, 1776 (the original edition)..... More
Milhous, Judith. Hume, Robert D. A Register of English Theatrical Documents 1660-1737. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1991. Two volumes. Cloth. Fine. $10. More
Milton, John. The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. New York: Henry Holt, 1911. liii, 185 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2020. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $50. More
Nader, Laura. Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xxiii, 343 pp. Plates. Illustrations. Cloth in dust jacket. Fine. $10. More
Paley, William. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, [2002]. ix, 481 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2021. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $65. * This classic work was first published in 1785, and..... More
Peabody, Andrew P. Plutarch on the Delay of the Divine Justice. Translated with an introduction and Notes. Boston: Little, Brown, 1885. xxx, 78 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2021. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $45. * In..... More
Phillips, S. Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence With an Introduction on the Theory of Presumptive Proof. [Delanco]: Legal Classics Library, [2000]. Reprint edition. Originally published Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1873. xxxix, 153 pp. Decorative gilt stamped leather. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Marble endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine..... More
Poley, A.P. Gould, F.H. Carruthers. The History, Law, and Practice of the Stock Exchange. Second Edition, Revised. London, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1911. 348 pp. Cloth, light shelfwear, light fading to spine, owner stamp to front free endpaper. $85. More
In a Handsome Contemporary Chippendale Binding Prujean, John. A Treatise Upon the Laws of England Now in Force for the Recovery of Debt, Pointing Out the Many Abuses of Them; Together with a Plan for Administering More Speedy and Equitable Justice to Creditors and to Debtors. By John Prujean, Esq..... More
Riddell, William Renwick, [1852-1945]. Some Early Legislation and Legislators in Upper Canada. Toronto: The Carswell Co., Limited, 1913. 39 pp. Stapled pamphlet in wrappers. Near-fine. Previous owner's inscription "S.R. Mealing/ 6.3.53" to front cover. Internally clean. $25. * Examines the laws and the individuals involved in creating them in Upper..... More
Selma Moidel Smith. California Legal History: Volume 4: 2009. [Fresno, CA]: California Supreme Court Historical Society, 2009. vi, 564 pp. Softcover. Moderate shelfwear with some scuffing to covers. Internally clean and bright. $25. * Articles contained in this issue: Jesse W. Carter and California Water Law: Guns, Dynamite, and Farmers..... More
Silverglate, Harvey, A. Three Felonies a Day. How the Feds Target the Innocent. New York: Encounter Books, [2009]. xlvi, 323 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2017. Signed by the author on half-title, "Harvey A. Silvergate." Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front..... More
Silverman, Robert A. Law and Urban Growth: Civil Litigation in the Boston Trial Courts. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. xiv, 217 pp. Illustrations. Cloth in moderately edgeworn dust jacket. $15. More
Smith, John Thomas, II. Cars, Energy, Nuclear Diplomacy, And the Law: A Reflective Memoir of Three Generations. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012. x, 249 pp. Plates. Cloth in near-fine dust jacket, author presentation insciption to title page. $15. More
Spence, Gerry. The Smoking Gun. Day by Day Through a Shocking Murder Trial with Gerry Spence. A True Story. New York: A Lisa Drew Book, Scribner, [2003]. 435 pp. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2008. With a Special Introduction by Alan Dershowitz. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled..... More
Spruit, J.E.; Feenstra, R.; Bongenaar, K.E.M. Corpus Iuris Civilis. Tekst en Vertaling. Zutphen & Amsterdam: Walburg Pers; Amsterdam University Press, 1993-2016. 12 volumes. Hardcover with dust jackets. Complete set. Very good. $750. * Complete translation in Dutch. Contents: Volume I. Institutiones; Volume II. Digesta 1-10; Volume III. Digesta 11-24; Volume..... More
The Law Library Of a Distinguished New Jerseyian Merwin-Clayton Sales Company. [Steen, James (1863-1909)]. Catalogue of the Law Library of the Late James Steen of Eatontown N.J. With a Number of Added Lots on the Same Subject to be Sold at Auction Friday, November 25th, 1910 Commencing at 2.30 p.m...... More
The Standard Nineteenth Century American Treatise on Sales Story, William W[etmore] [1819-1895]. Perkins, J[onathan] C[ogswell] [1809-1877], Editor. A Treatise on the Law of Sales of Personal Property with Illustrations from the Foreign Law. With Large Additions to the Text and Notes. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1862. 8..... More
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Tried for Killing Boswell's Son in a Duel Stuart, James [1775-1849], Defendant. The Trial of James Stuart, Esq., Younger of Dunearn, Before the High Court of Justiciary, At Edinburgh, On Monday, June 10, 1822. With an Appendix of Documents. Taken in Short Hand. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co./London..... More
Tansill, Charles. James Madison. Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States. Washington: Government Printing Office 1927. Reprint The Legal Classics Library, 1989. Illustrations. 1,115 pp. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine..... More
With Ten Detailed Folding Maps [United States]. Intracoastal Waterway Boston, Mass., To Beaufort, N.C. Section: Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting with a Letter from the Chief of Engineers, Report on Survey of the Boston, Mass., To Beaufort, N.C., Section of the Proposed Continuous Inland Waterway from Boston, Mass...... More
VanMale, John. Smith, Charles Wesley, Foreword. Resources of Pacific Northwest Libraries: A Survey of Facilities for Study and Research. Seattle: Pacific Northwest library Association, 1943. xvi, 405 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettered spine. Moderate shelfwear with some rubbing to spine. Author's inscription "To Lucy with the warm/ regards of..... More
Washburn, Emory, [1800-1877]. Extinction of Villenage and Slavery in England: With Somerset's Case: A Paper Read Before the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston: John Wilson & Son, 1864. 21 pp. Printed wrappers. Moderately worn and soiled with fading to front cover. Author's presentation inscription "[NE Hist & Gene Society]/ with the..... More
Washburn, Emory [1800-1877]. A Manual of Criminal Law, Including the Mode of Procedure by Which It Is Enforced. Especially Designed for the Use of Students. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1878. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2005. xxxiii, 278 pp. Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker..... More
Watson, Denton L.; Nuxoll, Elizabeth M. The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. Volume 2, 1944-1946. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xvi, 187-870 pp., illustrations. Inscribed. Publisher's original black cloth hardcover, with stamped spine and front cover, in a new dust jacket. New, $60. * "Clarence Mitchell Jr. was the driving..... More
Watson, Denton L.; Nuxoll, Elizabeth M. The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. Volume 1, 1942-1943. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. ccxxx, 186 pp., illustrations. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Publisher's original black cloth hardcover, with stamped spine and front cover, in a new dust jacket. New..... More
Weber, Charles M. An Approach to a California Public Works Plan. Comprehensive Co-Ordinated Public Works Planning and a Step-By-Step Water Plan For California. [Stockton, CA]: Weber Foundation, [1960]. 374 pp. Illustrations, 37 leaves of plates, color maps (many folded). Stapled printed wrappers. Moderate shelfwear. Some fading to front cover. Internally..... More
Welsh-Huggins, Andrew. No Winners Here Tonight. Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2009. x, 222 pp., 7 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations. Black cloth hardcover, with stamped spine and front cover. New. Publisher's Price USD 55. Special $20..... More
Welsh-Huggins, Andrew. No Winners Here Tonight. Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penalty States. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2009. x, 222 pp., 7 unnumbered pages of plates, illustrations. Softcover. New. Publisher's Price USD 26.95 Special $10. * "Few subjects are as intensely debated in..... More
[Wontner, Thomas]. Old Bailey Experience. Criminal Jurisprudence and the Actual Working of our Penal Code of Laws. Also, An Essay on Prison Discipline, to Which is Added a History of the Crimes Committed by Offenders in the Present Day. By the Author of "The Schoolmaster's Experience in Newgate." London, J...... More