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Author:      Widiss, Alan I., et al
Title:       No-Fault Automobile Insurance in Action, The Experiences in
             Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware and Michigan
Publisher:   Oceana Publications, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, 1977.
Description: Four reports issued under the auspices of the Council on Law-
             Related Studies, whose president, David Cavers, contributes a
             foreword and is co-author of the Massachusetts' investigation
Condition:
Book No.:    W-60391                Price: $      35.00
Category:    law of automobiles, torts, insurance law, Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware, Michigan

Author:      Bigelow, Lewis
Title:       A Digest of Pickering's Reports, Volumes II-VII Being a Supplement
             to the Digest of the Previous Volumes of the Massachusetts Reports
Publisher:   Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, Boston, 1830.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:    W-43708                Price: $     125.00
Category:    digests, Massachusetts, reports of cases

Author:      Fenner, Ball
Title:       Raising the Veil; or, Scenes in the Courts . . . Embellished with
             Portraits of Police, Court Officers [etc.]. Cohen 1006
Publisher:   James French & Company, Boston, 1856.
Description: An insider's account, truly "raising the veil" on courts and
             lawyers, in this case those of New York, Philadelphia and, in
             particular, Boston, with a side excursion to California and with
             separate chapters on divorce and bankruptcy
Condition:   Original embossed cloth, quite worn and frayed, yet a usable copy
Book No.:    W-68204                Price: $     250.00
Category:    Bench and Bar, human rights, Massachusetts

Author:      Bing, Stephen R. and S. Stephen Rosenfeld
Title:       The Quality of Justice in the Lower Criminal Courts of
             Metropolitan Boston
Publisher:   Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Boston, 1970.
Description: A thorough, empirical examination of Massachusetts' entry level
             criminal courts, with five appendices, two maps, 32 tables, a
             computer printout, and like analyses
Condition:   Wraps, faded and a bit worn, but sound; 149 pages
Book No.:    W-90190                Price: $      35.00
Category:    criminal law, Massachusetts

Author:
Title:       Remarks of Richard H. Dana, Jr. Esq before the Committee on
             Federal Relations, on the Proposed Removal of Edward G. Loring,
             Esq. from the Office of Judge of Probate
Publisher:   Printed by Alfred Mudge & Sons, No. 21 School Street, Boston,
             1855.
Description:
Condition:   Original stabbed self-wraps, ?ex-library, sunned; 28 pages
Book No.:    W-66307                Price: $     250.00
Category:    impeachment, trials, Probating, Massachusetts

Author:
Title:       Nutter, McClennen & Fish, The First Century, 1879-1979
Publisher:   Privately Printed, Boston, 1979.
Description: The firm originally formed by Brandeis and Samuel Warren (as
             Warren & Brandeis) in 1879 upon Brandeis' admission to the
             Massachusetts bar, an event "celebrated . . . by spending the
             evening with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."; well illustrated
Condition:   Original red cloth, gilt, well-preserved, one of 1,000 copies, of
             which this is number 114; with photographs of Warren and Brandeis
             as frontispieces
Book No.:    W-75509                Price: $     150.00
Category:    biography, Bench and Bar, Supreme Court, Massachusetts

Author:      Amos, Andrew
Title:       The Great Oyer of Poisoning: the Trial of the Earl of Somerset for
             the Poisoning of Sir Thomas Overbury, in the Tower of London, and
             Various Matters Connected therewith, from Contemporary Mss.
Publisher:   Richard Bentley, London, 1846.
Description:
Condition:   Contemporary calf, front board detached, rear board lacking,
             definite staining and embrowning; a working copy only
Book No.:    W-51385                Price: $      75.00
Category:    17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, Law & Hist of Printg, trials

Author:      Zinman (intro.), Michael
Title:       Several Laws and Orders Made At the Generall Court . . . Held at
             Boston the 11th of May 1670. And at the Generall Court held by
             Adjournment the 12th day of October, 1670
Publisher:   The Haydn Foundation, Ardsley, 1987.
Description: The facsimile reissue of the only known copy of these
             Massachusetts Bay Colony session laws, only recently rediscovered;
             with a brief introduction by Mr. Zinman, speculating about other
             missing laws whose existence are suggested by these
Condition:   Printed, sewn, oversized wraps; six pages
Book No.:    W-13145                Price: $     125.00
Category:    17TH CENTURY, Massachusetts, colonies

Author:
Title:       The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen
             Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay
             [etc.] [with] Acts and Laws, Of His Majesty's Province of the
             Massachusetts-Bay [etc.] [with one further act] Cushing 343-345,
             349
Publisher:   Printed by B. Green . . . for Benjamin Eliot [etc.], Boston, 1726-
             27.
Description: Among the earliest collected laws of the Province, preceded only
             by those of 1699 and 1714, together with the Province's Charter
             and then supplemented by the laws for the immediately succeeding
             session held in the year of the laws' publication
Condition:   Contemporary panelled sheep, quite worn and somewhat bowed, the
             rear board detached and the front loose, some foxing, else a crisp
             desirable copy
Book No.:    W-53448                Price: $    6500.00
Category:    Acts, Massachusetts

Author:
Title:       Cases Decided in the District and Circuit Court of the United
             States for the Pennsylvania District, and also a Case Decided in
             the District Court of Massachusetts, Relative to the Employment of
             British Licenses on board of Vessels of the United States
Publisher:   Published by Redwood Fisher, No. 30, South Fourth-Street,
             Philadelphia, 1813.
Description:
Condition:   Original stabbed wraps (lacking), foxing, untrimmed; 91 pages
Book No.:    W-62291                Price: $     450.00
Category:    reports of cases, maritime law, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts

Author:
Title:       Report Relating to State Paupers
Publisher:   Commonwealth of Massachusetts, n.p., 1836.
Description: The rare report (signed in print on behalf of the Select Committee
             by Joseph T. Buckingham, its Chairman), followed by two proposed
             bills, "An Act Concerning Paupers" and "An Act To prevent the
             introduction of Foreign Paupers into this State"
Condition:   Original printed stabbed self-wraps, untrimmed, two later holes at
             the inner margin, no text affected, 28 pages; one copy in OCLC, at
             Harvard
Book No.:    W-91724                Price: $     125.00
Category:    poor law, Massachusetts

Author:      Avery, Elroy McKendree
Title:       John Humfrey, Massachusetts Magistrate, Did He Marry the Daughter
             of the Third Earl of Lincoln?
Publisher:   N.p., Cleveland, 1912.
Description: The argument of a noted genealogist seeking to support the weak
             link in his chain linking John D. Rockefeller to the first three
             Earls of Lincoln, a claim originally made by him and published in
             the New York Times where it had been rebutted
Condition:   Later cloth boards, ex-library, worn but sound; 22 pages
Book No.:    W-48965                Price: $      25.00
Category:    Massachusetts

Author:
Title:       The General Court of Massachusetts 1630-1930, Tercentenary
             Exercises Commemorating Its Establishment Three Hundred Years Ago
             [etc.]
Publisher:   Wright & Potter, Legislative Printers, Boston, 1931.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:    W-57011                Price: $      75.00
Category:    Massachusetts, Bench and Bar

Author:      Metcalf, Theron
Title:       Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Judicial Court of the
             Commonwealth of Massachusetts [etc.]. Cohen 5548
Publisher:   Published by Richardson and Lord, Boston, 1825.
Description: The only edition of one of the earliest Massachusetts digests (the
             second to digest the Supreme Judicial Court's reports), undertaken
             by Metcalf, who was himself later to be the Court's reporter and
             then to be appointed to the Court itself
Condition:   Sheep-backed boards, worn, some staining, but a sound copy
Book No.:    W-42321                Price: $     125.00
Category:    digests, Massachusetts

Author:      Clark, B.F.]
Title:       The Perjury Case! Further Developments. Mr. Clark's Replies to the
             Letters of George F. Farley, and Ashael Huntington, Esq's
Publisher:   Printed for the Publisher, Boston, 1848.
Description:
Condition:   Lacking wraps, embrowned, worn but sound; 16 pages
Book No.:    W-52101                Price: $      50.00
Category:    Massachusetts

Author:      Greenhood, E. Russell
Title:       Mortuary Law and Settlement of Estates in Massachusetts
Publisher:   N.p., Boston, 1939.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:    W-11622                Price: $      35.00
Category:    Massachusetts

Author:      Fielding, Henry
Title:       An Enquiry Into the Causes of the late Increase of Robers, ec.
             With Some Proposals for Remedying this Growing Evil
Publisher:   Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Katharine-Street [etc.],
             London, 1751.
Description:
Condition:
Book No.:    W-18199                Price: $    1250.00
Category:    19TH CENTURY, Acts, ancient law, Bench and Bar, biography, criminal law, education, legal ephemera, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, law and prostitution, roman law, Supreme Court, trials, women's law

Author:
Title:       A Letter from Bartolomeo Vanzetti to his friend's son Dante Sacco
             from the Death House Massachusetts State Prison 7/4/17 . . . seven
             years, four months, seventeen days
Publisher:   The Huntsbury Press, Christchurch, 1975.
Description: The rare, fine printing of the moving letter from Vanzetti to
             Sacco's son (then fourteen), written the day before the
             executions, praising Sacco's character (know "how good and brave
             your father has been with you") and reaffirming their innocence
Condition:   Oversized red sewn wraps, hand set and printed on antique laid
             paper; #52 of 100 copies, none for sale; two copies in OCLC,
             neither in this country
Book No.:    W-75691                Price: $     350.00
Category:    Sacco and Vanzetti Case, trials, Fine Printing, criminal law, Massachusetts

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