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- Author:
- Title:
- The Trial of James Wilson, for High Treason, With an Account of His Execution at Glasgow, September 1820 . . . Now Respectfully Submitted to the Consideration of the Reformers of Glasgow, By . . . The Exposer of the Spy System [Peter Mackenzie]
- Publisher:
- Printed and Published by Muir, Gowans, & Co. [etc.], Glasgow, 1832.
- Description:
- Three accounts of Wilson's trial, one of three individuals executed for participating in the Scottish Insurrection of 1820, later discovered by Mackenzie to have been instigated by government agents, leading to the pardon of all the other insurgents
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a good clean copy, 48 pages; five copies in OCLC, one in Scotland
- Book No.:
- W-77513
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- SCOTLAND, trials, criminal law, Radicals
- Author:
- Wallis, Ralph
- Title:
- More News from Rome or Magna Charta, Discoursed of between a Poor Man & his Wife . . . An Assertion of Dr. William Warmstrey . . . wherein he affirmeth, that It is a lesser sin for a man to kill his Father, than to refrain coming to the Divine Service
- Publisher:
- for the Author, for the only benefit of his Wife and Children, London, 1666.
- Description:
- One of the few surviving works of Wallis, the radical protestant called the Cobbler of Gloucester, invoking Magna Charta as part of his vituperative attack on the Church of England and "the scandalous and shameful conduct of Anglican clergyman"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt, definite browning and the margins cut close, but clean and usable; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78007
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Magna Carta, Religion, Radicals
- Author:
- Title:
- Rights
- Publisher:
- National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, New York, 1982.
- Description:
- A good run of the Committee's publication, though not complete, thirty-two issues over fifteen years, with contributions by Alexander Cockburn, Irving Dilliard, Jessica Mitford, Larry McMurtry (on the Salman Rushdie fatwa) and Tom Stoppard inter alia
- Condition:
- Original stapled self-wraps, ex-library, in a black acco-binder
- Book No.:
- W-91333
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- civil liberties, Radicals, civil rights
- Author:
- Title:
- The Supreme Court vs The People, Karl Marx Influence Increases. Communism is Treason!
- Publisher:
- Common Sense, The Nation's Anti-Communist Newspaper, Union, 1962.
- Description:
- The lead article devoted to the nomination of Arthur Goldberg to the Court, highly, even rabidly, critical and anti-Semitic, bracketing him not only with "Marxian and Fabian Socialists", but with Felix Frankfurter "representing the minority group"
- Condition:
- Four pages (one sheet folded) measuring 11x15 inches as folded, browning yet usable; the September 15 issue, with a front-page photo of Mr Goldberg
- Book No.:
- W-75104
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Radicals
- Author:
- Filangieri, Gaetano
- Title:
- Science of Legislation. Translated from the Italian of the Chevalier Filangieri by William Kendall
- Publisher:
- Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, London, 1791?.
- Description:
- The rare, first English translation of Filangieri's treatise, an "implacable polemic against British constitutionalism" prompted in part by the American revolution and here translated "to fuel the struggle for . . . reform led by radical Londoners"
- Condition:
- Later buckram, gilt, a chip to the somewhat faded spine, ex-library, else a good clean copy; with the advertisement dated 14 May 1792 at Exeter
- Book No.:
- W-79852
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- ITALY, philosophy of law, American Revolution, legal reform, Radicals
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- The Story of My Life
- Publisher:
- Da Capo Press, New York, 1996.
- Description:
- Darrow's principal autobiographical work, written in his 70's, full of reflection, with much on the Scopes trial, the Leopold and Loeb case, and his other great involvements; with an new introduction, sometimes contentious, by Alan M. Dershowitz
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-64926
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- biography, Radicals
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- The Story of My Life. Grosset's Universal Library Edition
- Publisher:
- Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1957?.
- Description:
- Darrow's principal autobiographical work, written in his 70's, full of reflection, with much on the Scopes trial, the Leopold and Loeb case, and his other great involvements, the 27th work to appear in the publisher's Universal Library
- Condition:
- Illustrated multi-colored library cloth, somewhat worn and unevenly faded, else sound, the reissue in facsimile of the original 1932 edition
- Book No.:
- W-59528
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- biography, Radicals
- Author:
- Title:
- Would You Have the U.S. Supreme Court "Curbed and Bridled?"
- Publisher:
- Chicago Committee to Defend Democratic Rights, Chicago, 1958.
- Description:
- Condition:
- 8.5" x 14" sheet, folded into quarters
- Book No.:
- W-44512
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, Radicals
- Author:
- Tietjen, Randall (ed.)
- Title:
- In the Clutches of the Law, Clarence Darrow's Letters
- Publisher:
- University of California Press, Berkeley, 2013.
- Description:
- More than 500 letters brought together over twenty years, meticulously edited and glossed, and destined to materially change our views of Darrow, in the words of Michael Tigar--"one of the three best books on Clarence Darrow ever published"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-77129
- Price:
- $ 100.00
- Category:
- biography, Radicals, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Title:
- Argument of Clarence Darrow In the Case of the Communist Labor Party in the Criminal Court, Chicago. Hunsberger 130 [erroneously stating the work to contain Darrow's 1912 bribery trial argument]
- Publisher:
- Charles H. Kerr & Company, Chicago, 1920.
- Description:
- Darrow's powerful argument supporting freedom of speech, anticipating Holmes' dissent in Gitlow, defending twenty men arrested in an infamous 'Palmer Raid'; "seldom [have I] seen a case where I believed so heartily that I am right as this"
- Condition:
- ?Original patterned dark-red cloth, the spine gilt-lettered, somewhat rubbed and some browning, the occasional pencil markings, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-76301
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- communist law, freedom of speech, Radicals, constitutional law
- Author:
- Taylor, Paul S.
- Title:
- Communist Strategy and Tactics of Employing Peasant Dissatisfaction over Conditions of Land Tenure for Revolutionary Ends in Vietnam (A Study . . . for the Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee)
- Publisher:
- Government Printing Office, Washington, 1970.
- Description:
- A fitting part of Taylor's lifelong goal of land reform, whether in this country (with his wife, Dorothea Lange) or in the third world, here providing a cautionary historical survey of Communist efforts to use land reform for revolutionary purposes
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, some browning, else a very good copy; 28 pages
- Book No.:
- W-78860
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Vietnam, Radicals, Real Property
- Author:
- Bailey, Robert
- Title:
- Radicals in Urban Politics, The Alinsky Approach
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1974.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, a sound copy in a wrinkled dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-90484
- Price:
- $ 30.00
- Category:
- Radicals
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- The Story of My Life
- Publisher:
- Buccaneer Books, Cutchogue, 1960.
- Description:
- Darrow's principal autobiographical work, written in his 70's, full of reflection, with much on the Scopes trial, the Leopold and Loeb case, and his other great involvements; with the 1960 copyright obtained by Darrow's three grandchildren
- Condition:
- Original dark gray cloth, a very good copy; the facsimile reissue of the original 1932 edition, and the first Buccaneer Books printing
- Book No.:
- W-69985
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, Radicals, Darrow
- Author:
- Title:
- The Triumphs of Justice over Unjust Judges. Exhibiting I. The Names and Crimes of Four and Forty Judges, hanged . . . IV. The Proceedings of the Ship-Money Judges . . . VII. The Case of William Penn, for a Riot in Fenchurch Street
- Publisher:
- For J.J. Franklin (Grand Nephew to Dr. Franklin) [etc.], London, 1817.
- Description:
- A populist tract of the first rank originally published in 1681, recounting with approval the executions of oppressive judges and praising upright judges and juries (including Sir Matthew Hale and the jury acquitting Penn and Mead) and habeas corpus
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, light browning and a very little foxing, else sound, 36 pages; uncommon, four copies in OCLC in this country
- Book No.:
- W-79124
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- trials, Radicals, juries, habeas corpus
- Author:
- Forster?, Nathaniel
- Title:
- An Answer to a Pamphlet Entitled, "The Question Stated, Whether The Freeholders of Middlesex forfeited their Right by Voting for Mr. Wilkes at the last Election? In a Letter from a Member of Parliament to one of his Constituents" [etc.]. Not in Eller
- Publisher:
- Printed for James Fletcher [and two others] [etc.], London, 1769.
- Description:
- Part of the debate whether John Wilkes should sit in Parliament, the postscript possibly by Blackstone, accused of saying one thing in his 'Commentaries' and another as a Member of Parliament, in Ian Doolittle's words "caught leaden-footed in debate"
- Condition:
- Disbound, laid into modern marbled wraps, some foxing and the margins cut somewhat close, a sound copy; 38 pages, without the half title
- Book No.:
- W-77763
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Parliament, Radicals
- Author:
- Crane, Virginia Glenn
- Title:
- The Oshkosh Woodworkers' Strike of 1898: A Wisconsin Community in Crisis
- Publisher:
- Privately Printed [Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Commission grant], Madison?], 1998.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, a but rubbed, but well-preserved, 569 pages; presentation copy
- Book No.:
- W-72689
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- trials, 19TH CENTURY, Radicals, Wisconsin
- Author:
- Berger, Raoul
- Title:
- Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1973.
- Description:
- An historically grounded work, examining in depth the Anglo-American law of impeachment, prophetically appearing just as the revelations of Watergate occurred; with chapters, among others, on the Andrew Johnson and Samuel Chase impeachment trials
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40978
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Radicals, trials
- Author:
- Ginger, Ann Fagan
- Title:
- Carol Weiss King, Human Rights Lawyer, 1895-1952
- Publisher:
- University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Well preserved, in the dustjacket; presentation copy
- Book No.:
- W-64019
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- biography, women's law, Radicals, human rights
- Author:
- Blackburn, Sara (ed.)
- Title:
- White Justice, Black Experience Today in America's Courtrooms. With a Foreword by Haywood Burns
- Publisher:
- Harper & Row, New York, 1971.
- Description:
- With transcripts from six Black Panther trials in four states, including those of Huey P. Newton and Bobby G. Seale
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, a good copy; 288 pages, plus glossary
- Book No.:
- W-69431
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Discrimination, criminal law, trials, Radicals
- Author:
- Carter, Dan T.
- Title:
- Scottsboro, A Tragedy of the American South. Revised edition
- Publisher:
- Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Printed sewn wraps; 479 pages
- Book No.:
- W-60215
- Price:
- $ 16.95
- Category:
- trials, Radicals, criminal law, Discrimination
- Author:
- Dewees, F P.
- Title:
- The Molly Maguires, The Origin, Growth, and Character of the Organization
- Publisher:
- Burt Franklin, New York, 1969.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-50025
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, Radicals, trials
- Author:
- Spenser [Spencer], Benjamin
- Title:
- Vox Civitatis, Or, London's Complaint against her Children in the Countrie. Shewing to them her Infirmitie. Povertie. Desolate misery. Upbraiding them with Unkindnesse. Uncharitablenesse. Distrustfulnesse [and much else]. S.T.C. 23075. Quarto
- Publisher:
- Printed by E.P. for William Hope . . . neere the Royal Exchange, London, 1636.
- Description:
- Spenser's oft-printed tract criticizing much behavior caused by the plague, particularly that of the wealthy who left London and who, he believed (in a sentiment then rarely expressed), could not complain if their empty properties were to be looted
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning, marginal repairs to the title and next leaf, without the first and last blanks; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80158
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Health Law, Radicals
- Author:
- Hemmings, Ray
- Title:
- Liberty or Death, The story of Thomas Hardy, shoemaker, and John Cartwright, landowner, in the early struggles for parliamentary democracy
- Publisher:
- Lawrence & Wishart, London, 2000.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original sewn wraps, a paperback original, well-preserved; 184 pages
- Book No.:
- W-69706
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, 18TH CENTURY, Radicals, legal reform, Parliament
- Author:
- Hoffman, Robert L.
- Title:
- More Than a Trial The Struggle Over Captain Dreyfus
- Publisher:
- Free Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-40804
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, California, reports of cases, trials, jewish law, Radicals, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Hay, Douglas, Peter Linebaugh, et al
- Title:
- Albion's Fatal Tree
- Publisher:
- Pantheon Books, New York, 1975.
- Description:
- Condition:
- paper, worn
- Book No.:
- W-17451
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, criminal law, Radicals, trials
- Author:
- Hunt, Henry T. (comp.)
- Title:
- The Case of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings. Abstract and Analysis of Record Before Governor Young of California
- Publisher:
- Da Capo Press, New York, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A bit marked, but still a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-59472
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- trials, California, criminal law, Radicals
- Author:
- Joughin, Louis and Edmund M. Morgan
- Title:
- The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti
- Publisher:
- Princeton Universtiy Press, Princeton, 1976.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-41165
- Price:
- $ 65.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Radicals, trials
- Author:
- Abt, John
- Title:
- Advocate and Activist, Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-46458
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- biography, communist law, Radicals
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