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- Author:
- Grimes, Harlan
- Title:
- Justice? [one result of Grimes's efforts, as described below, was, surprisingly, his disbarrment from practising law in Oklahoma, a disbarment never remedied despite several attempts by Grimes to be reinstated]
- Publisher:
- Privately Printed, Dallas, 1959.
- Description:
- A rare work written by a crusading, anti-corruption lawyer who revealed widespread bribery in the Oklahoma Supreme Court, leading to the establishment of Oklahoma's Judicial Nominating Commission; one copy in OCLC (at the Library of Congress)
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, very slightly rubbed, else a near fine copy; 48 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80429
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Oklahoma, Legal Ethics, Bench and Bar, fraud
- Author:
- Spender, Irving Kristol, Melvin Lasky (eds.), Stephen
- Title:
- Encounter Magazine [a run of approximately 400 issues from the first issue (#1) to the last issue (#427)]
- Publisher:
- Encounter Ltd, London, 1953-1990.
- Description:
- An especially long run of 400 issues of the periodical published during much of the 20th century and containing "a rich seam . . . of political and literary material", but with its reputation tarnished when its substantial CIA funding was discovered
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, occasional wear, else a good clean set
- Book No.:
- W-80409
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- political theory, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Erskine, Thomas
- Title:
- Dissertation on the Origin of the English House of Commons, delivered before the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1777 to which the first Prize of the Year was adjudged
- Publisher:
- Annual Register, London, 1798.
- Description:
- A printing of Erskine's first public statement of the history and principles of English law to govern his entire life and career, with a significant reliance on Magna Carta, warning that the law's hallowed principles must be observed in reality
- Condition:
- Nine pages (pp 443-441), disbound, else very clean with good margins
- Book No.:
- W-80391
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- English constitutional law, Parliament, Magna Carta
- Author:
- Watkins, Charles
- Title:
- An Enquiry into the Question, Whether the Brother of the paternal Grand-mother shall succeed to the Inheritance of the Son, in preference to the Brother of the paternal Great-Grand-mother [etc.]. Not in Eller; Lauechli 660
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street, London, 1798.
- Description:
- A rare tract by the noted conveyancer exploring a recondite issue dividing the greatest minds of English law--including Bacon, Hale, and Blackstone--concluding that the great-grand-mother's brother, with his greater paternal longevity, must prevail
- Condition:
- ?Original self-wraps, disbound, without the advertising leaf, 38 pages; holdings in one library only in North America in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-80437
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Woodman, R.
- Title:
- Erskine [Print]
- Publisher:
- n.p., n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46525
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Legal Prints
- Author:
- Dean, T.A.
- Title:
- Somers [Print]
- Publisher:
- n.p., n.d.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46521
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- Legal Prints
- Author:
- Maitland, F.W
- Title:
- The Deacon and the Jewess [with] Prefatory Note by Israel Abrahams, M.A. [who describes Maitland's essay as "original in substance . . . [f]or the first time it gave a clear insight into . . . the laws of heresy in Mediaeval England"]
- Publisher:
- Jewish Historical Society of England, London, 1908-10.
- Description:
- Maitland's careful, seminal analysis establishing with certainty that burning to death for heresy began in England in 1222, when a deacon left the church, committed apostasy, was circumcised, and converted to Judaism, all for his love of a Jewess
- Condition:
- Disbound, extracted from volume 6 of the Society's Transactions, 6+17 pages, a clean usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-80435
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Blackstone, William
- Title:
- Commentaries on the Laws of England. The Fourth [sic] Edition. Eller 6
- Publisher:
- Printed for John Exshaw [and others; imprint varies], Dublin, 1771.
- Description:
- A very early Dublin-printed, pirated edition (the second) of Blackstone's classic work, appearing during the same year as the first American edition, and the first in Ireland in which all four volumes were published during the same year
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rubbed, a few repairs, new labels; a sound set
- Book No.:
- W-60114
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- jurisprudence, English Law
- Author:
- Frankfurter, Felix
- Title:
- Typed postcard addressed to Ben V. Cohen at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York City postmarked December 8, 1952, and providing Frankfurter's new telephone number [Cohen one of Frankfurter's prized "disciples" and a "lawyer's lawyer" of great talent]
- Publisher:
- United States Postal Service, Washington, 1952.
- Description:
- An ephemeral piece impossible to imagine today, in which a sitting Supreme Court justice sends a postcard to a colleague staying at a major New York hotel, revealing to all through whom the postcard passes the justice's new telephone number
- Condition:
- An official, one cent Postal Service postcard, revalued to two cents and postmarked at Washington D.C. at 5:00pm December 8 1952; in very good condition
- Book No.:
- W-80439
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Author:
- Lerner (ed.), Max
- Title:
- The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, His Speeches, Essays, Letters and Judicial Opinions
- Publisher:
- The Modern Library, New York, 1943.
- Description:
- A good selection, particularly of Holmes' early speeches and addresses, as well as Holmes' autobiographical sketch (written at age 20, in 1861); with Lerner's introductory notes and annotations
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-80443
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
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