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- Author:
- Bell, H.E.
- Title:
- Maitland, A Critical Examination and Assessment
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1965.
- Description:
- A fine biography of Maitland, rivalling Fifoot's, and possibly better capturing Maitland's character, with two chapters on the History of English Law, another on Domesday, a third on the Year Books, and an appendix on Maitland as a teacher
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-44562
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Carr, Cecil
- Title:
- George James Turner 1867-1946
- Publisher:
- Geoffrey Cumberlege, London, n.d..
- Description:
- The eulogy appearing in the Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XL, testimony to the efforts of Maitland's principal collaborator in the editing of the Year Books for the Selden Society, initiated by Maitland shortly before the century's turn
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, worn but sound; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-10774
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Cooke, Edward
- Title:
- Chronica Juridicalia: Or, A General Calendar of the Years of . . . the several Kings of England . . . Together with A Chronological Table of the Names of all the Lord Chancellors . . . Justices of the Kings-Bench and Common Pleas [etc.]. ESTC R10158
- Publisher:
- Printed for H. Sawbridge . . . and T. Simmons [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of the expansion of Dugdale's listings of the chancellors, judges, law officers, king's serjeants and others, extending (in Holdsworth's words) "a very valuable piece of work, which, for all time, will be useful to legal historians"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite rubbed, rebacked, early paper label, some browning; with A1 blank, but without the plate amd portrait if called for
- Book No.:
- W-74827
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- Author:
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Title:
- On the Liberty of the Press and Public Discussion and other Legal and Political Writings for Spain and Portugal. Edited by Catherine Pease-Watkin and Philip Schofield
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2012.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy; The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional Law, Penology, and Criminal Law
- Book No.:
- W-78469
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- biography, freedom of press, SPAIN, PORTUGAL
- Author:
- Dalrymple, David, Lord Hailes]
- Title:
- A Catalogue of the Lords of Session, from the Institution of the College of Justice, in the year 1532. With Historical Notes. Quarto
- Publisher:
- N.p., Edinburgh, 1794.
- Description:
- The first revision, significantly expanded, of the first effort to provide biographical detail of the Scots judiciary, undertaken by Lord Hailes, advisor to James Boswell and to whom Dr. Johnson is said to have turned "on any matter of Scottish law"
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, a clean copy with ample margins. 18+42 pages; one copy in a law library in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-76204
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- biography, SCOTLAND
- Author:
- Weaver, John D.
- Title:
- Warren, The Man, The Court, The Era
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1967.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A good copy in a very worn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-47246
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- The Story of My Life
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, the rear pastedown defaced; sound
- Book No.:
- W-63398
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Dunne, Gerald T.
- Title:
- Joseph Story, The Great Term--1837
- Publisher:
- Saint Louis University Law Journal, St. Louis, 1969.
- Description:
- The rare, separate printing of the eleventh in a series of essays written by Mr. Dunne, subsequently to appear, as revised, in his biography of Justice Story ("Justice Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court"), published the following year
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, unevenly faded, now preserved in a cloth folding case, 23 pages, from the Fall issue, Volume 14, No. 1; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-78434
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest till the Death of Lord Tenterden. Five Volumes
- Publisher:
- Edward Thomson Co., Long Island, 1894-99.
- Description:
- The most sumptuous and elaborate of all the editions of the Lord Campbell's 'Chief Justices', with many full-page plates, some in color and others folding, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest forward
- Condition:
- Vellum-backed crimson boards, showing wear, but still attractive
- Book No.:
- W-55036
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- biography, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Weinberg, Arthur and Lila (eds.)
- Title:
- Clarence Darrow, Verdicts Out of Court
- Publisher:
- Quadrangle Books, Chicago, 1963.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Quite a good copy, in a worn and torn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-43688
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Title:
- Yankee From Olympus, Justice Holmes and His Family
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1944.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55287
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Darrow, Clarence
- Title:
- The Story of My Life
- Publisher:
- Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1932.
- Description:
- The advance editorial copy (and so designated on the front wrap) of 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
- Condition:
- Original sewn wraps, rubbed and chipped, a bit stained, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-60863
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Foss, Edward
- Title:
- The Judges of England; With Sketches of their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected with the Courts at Westminster from the Time of the Conquest. Nine Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans [and] John Murray, London, 1848-64.
- Description:
- Still the standard treatise on the English judiciary's history, in Holdsworth's words "a great work . . . throughout based on the best authorities" with over 1,500 biographies covering the course of eight centuries, from the Norman Conquest to 1864
- Condition:
- Original brown embossed cloth, gilt, the spines lightly sunned, the occasional blemish here and there, a very little foxing; a very good clean set
- Book No.:
- W-77808
- Price:
- $ 1750.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- Author:
- Mitgang, Herbert
- Title:
- The Man Who Rode the Tiger, The Life and Times of Judge Samuel Seabury
- Publisher:
- J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1963.
- Description:
- Legal Studies of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation
- Condition:
- Front hinge badly cracked, in a very worn dustjacket; usable only
- Book No.:
- W-60627
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- New York, biography
- Author:
- Bailey, S.J.
- Title:
- Sir Percy Henry Winfield, 1878-1953
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, London, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, 9 pages; Proceedings of the British Academy
- Book No.:
- W-10078
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Title:
- The Life of Mr. James Quin Comedian, with the History of the State . . . Illustrated with Many Curious and Interesting Anecdotes of Several Persons of Distinction, Literature, and Gallantry . . . Together with His Trial for the Murder of Mr. Bowen
- Publisher:
- No Publisher, London, 1887.
- Description:
- An elaborately Grangerized copy, with over fifty illustrations inserted, including four of David Garrick, one each of Colley Cibber and Theophilus Cibber (and two of Susannah Cibber), one of Milton, one of Shakespeare, and seven of Quin himself
- Condition:
- Modern crushed brown morocco, top edge gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, without the index at pages 102-07
- Book No.:
- W-79215
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Theatre, biography, criminal law, trials, Grangerized
- Author:
- Foss, Edward
- Title:
- Biographia Juridica, A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England From the Conquest to the Present Time 1066-1870
- Publisher:
- John Murray, London, 1870.
- Description:
- Still the principal biographical source for the study of the English judiciary, distilled and expanded from Foss's 'Judges of England', a work Holdsworth termed "of the greatest value to legal historians, principally for the biographies"
- Condition:
- Covers badly flecked, hinges cracked; a working copy
- Book No.:
- W-54649
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- Author:
- Belli, Melvin M. and Danny R. Jones
- Title:
- Belli Looks at Life and Law in Japan
- Publisher:
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1960.
- Description:
- With a preface by Toshio Irie, Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan, a good index, and a serious, instructive look at damage awards in Japanese civil cases
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-55808
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- biography, JAPAN, RUSSIA
- Author:
- Rolt, John
- Title:
- The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Rolt, Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Chancery 1804-1871 [Edited by C.T. Le Quesne]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Order of the Masters of the Bench . . . Inner Temple, London], 1939.
- Description:
- First publication of the miraculously surviving autobiography of John Rolt, who, though orphaned at age ten, through native intelligence and diligence became an accomplished Chancery practitioner and, subsequently, attorney general and judge
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy, with the frontispiece portrait and ten additional full page plates
- Book No.:
- W-16015
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 19TH CENTURY, biography, Inns of Court
- Author:
- Cooke, Edward]
- Title:
- Chronica Juridicialia: Or, an Abridgment and Continuation of Dugdale's Origines Juridicialia. Containing . . . Chronological Tables of the Names of all the Lord Chancellors . . . Judges of the King's Bench and Common Pleas [etc.]. Second Edition
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Worrall, at the Dove . . . near Lincoln's-Inn, London, 1739.
- Description:
- The expansion of Dugdale's listings of the chancellors, judges, law officers, king's serjeants and other officials, thus extending (in Holdsworth's words) "a very valuable piece of work, which, for all time, will be useful to legal historians"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked, light embrowning; sound
- Book No.:
- W-65592
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Foss, Edward
- Title:
- Biographia Juridica, A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, From the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1870.
- Description:
- Still the principal biographical source for the study of the English judiciary, distilled and expanded from Foss's 'Judges of England', a work Holdsworth termed "of the greatest value to legal historians, principally for the biographies"
- Condition:
- Original embossed cloth, gilt, quite rubbed and unevenly faded, the front hinge cracked, else a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-76919
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- Author:
- Lane, Jane
- Title:
- Titus Oates
- Publisher:
- Andrew Dakers Limited, London, 1949.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original blue cloth, a bit worn and foxed, but sound
- Book No.:
- W-63512
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- biography, trials, criminal law, 17TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Brown (comps.), C.R., P.A. Maxwell & L.F. Maxwell
- Title:
- A Sweet and Maxwell's Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 3. Canadian and British-American Colonial Law From Earliest Times to December, 1956
- Publisher:
- John Rees, London, 1990.
- Description:
- The volume of the pre-eminent legal bibliography of the English-speaking world and the former British Empire devoted to Canada until 1956 and to the United States during its colonial period; other volumes and the entire set also available
- Condition:
- Original cloth, as new, in the glassine dustjacket; the facsimile reissue of the second edition of 1957
- Book No.:
- W-61436
- Price:
- $ 55.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, Bibliography, biography, CANADA, colonies, Pennsylvania
- Author:
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Title:
- Yankee From Olympus, Justice Holmes and His Family
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1944.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Worn and spotted; usable
- Book No.:
- W-49143
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Carr, Cecil
- Title:
- George James Turner 1867-1946
- Publisher:
- Geoffrey Cumberlege [for the British Academy], London, n.d..
- Description:
- The eulogy appearing in Volume XL of the Academy's Proceedings, testimony to the efforts of Maitland's principal collaborator in the editing of the Year Books for the Selden Society, a project initiated by Maitland shortly before the century's turn
- Condition:
- Printed wraps, unevenly browned but sound; 12 pages
- Book No.:
- W-61842
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Fifoot, C.H.S.
- Title:
- Frederic William Maitland, A Life
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1971.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A little marked, but quite a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-46807
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, biography
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. Eight Volumes
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1846-69.
- Description:
- The most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors, described as a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best biographies in the language"; with the eighth index volume, printed in 1869, in a variant binding
- Condition:
- 3/4 crimson morocco, gilt, Law Society prize binding; sound
- Book No.:
- W-52333
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- equity, biography
- Author:
- Curtis, George Ticknor
- Title:
- History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States; With Notices of Its Principal Framers. Two Volumes. Compare Cohen 2799
- Publisher:
- Harper and Brothers, New York, 1861.
- Description:
- An early reissue of the principal work of Curtis, a student of Story's and one of Webster's literary executors, expanded by him towards the end of the century to include subsequent developments, here focusing exclusively on the Constitution's origins
- Condition:
- Original embossed cloth, gilt, lightly worn but generally quite clean and attractive; Charles E. Wyzanki's set, though without his ownership signature
- Book No.:
- W-75355
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, biography
- Author:
- Smith, Charlotte Watkins
- Title:
- Carl Becker, On History and the Climate of Opinion
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-20121
- Price:
- $ 20.00
- Category:
- political theory, biography
- Author:
- Cockburn, William
- Title:
- The Clerk's Assistant in the Practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts: Containing the Method of Proceedings there. Extracted from The best Books of Practice, And more regularly and clearly laid down than has hitherto been done [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Main, in Dame-Street, Dublin, 1753.
- Description:
- The rare first Dublin edition of a comprehensive work, praised by Holdsworth as "clear and concise", treating of criminal causes, divorce, guardians, libel and defamation, marriage (several chapters), and wills inter alia; two copies in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, light browning and new endpapers, else quite crisp and well-preserved, with the subscribers list; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79075
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- biography, Ecclesiastical Law, SCOTLAND, marriage, divorce, libel and slander, criminal law
- Author:
- Cooksey, Richard
- Title:
- Essay on the Life and Character of John Lord Somers . . . Also Sketches of an Essay on the Life and Character of Philip Earl of Hardwicke [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Holl; (for the author.) And sold by J. Bew [etc.], Worcester, 1791.
- Description:
- A principal contemporary account (the only I can locate in book form) of John Somers and Philip Yorke, two of England's pre-eminent early modern lawyers, a rich mix of contributions by Cooksey, Defoe, Walpole, and Jeremiah Bentham, among many others
- Condition:
- Later calf, gilt, quite rubbed, label lacking, title trimmed not affecting text, some foxing, ex-library, else (and despite this litany) a good copy
- Book No.:
- W-71543
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- equity, biography
- Author:
- Pruitt, Jr., Paul M.
- Title:
- Taming Alabama, Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929. With an Introduction by G. Ward Hubbs
- Publisher:
- University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 2010.
- Description:
- A work examining the lives of seven "Bourbon Reformers", all but one in the Whig reform tradition of 19th and early 20th century Alabama, discussing both their influence and their limitations-and the role of law-in a "complex, often ambiguous world"
- Condition:
- Original printed illustrated wraps, as new; 186 pages
- Book No.:
- W-75673
- Price:
- $ 26.95
- Category:
- Alabama, biography, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Fifoot, C.H.S.
- Title:
- Frederic William Maitland, A Life
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1971.
- Description:
- Praised by John Dawson as "the first full biography of Maitland", drawing upon Fifoot's earlier edition of Maitland's letters, upon unpublished family papers, and upon the reminiscences of Maitland's one surviving daughter; Studies in Legal History
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-44563
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- 18TH CENTURY, biography
- Author:
- Bell, H.E.
- Title:
- Maitland, A Critical Examination and Assessment
- Publisher:
- Adam & Charles Black, London, 1965.
- Description:
- A fine biography of Maitland, rivalling Fifoot's, and possibly better capturing Maitland's character, with an appendix on Maitland as a teacher; this the not often seen English edition
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-61717
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Harvard College. Class Day, June 21, 1861
- Publisher:
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-42384
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of King George IV. First [through Third] Series. In Seven Volumes. Cohen 2175
- Publisher:
- Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1847-48.
- Description:
- First American edition of the most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors, a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best biographies in the language", from the Anglo-Saxon chancellors through the 19th century
- Condition:
- Original cloth, gilt, spine of volume one repaired and some spine ends chipped, some foxing and staining, ex-Redpath Library, yet a usable set
- Book No.:
- W-74275
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Weinberg, Arthur and Lila
- Title:
- Clarence Darrow, A Sentimental Rebel
- Publisher:
- G.P. Putnam's Son, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- The final volume in the Weinberg's trilogy on Darrow, in addition to their "Attorney for the Damned" and their "Verdicts Out of Court", with a focus on Darrow's own trials for bribery, together with the Scopes and Loeb and Leopold trials inter alia
- Condition:
- Original cloth in a somewhat faded dustjacket, inscribed by both Arthur and Lila Weinberg (in different inks) on the half title
- Book No.:
- W-57030
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Bailey, S.J.
- Title:
- Sir Percy Henry Winfield, 1878-1953
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, London, n.d..
- Description:
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps, 9 pages; Proceedings of the British Academy
- Book No.:
- W-61688
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Cooke, Edward
- Title:
- Chronica Juridicalia: Or, A General Calendar of the Years of . . . the several Kings of England . . . Together with A Chronological Table of the Names of all the Lord Chancellors . . . Justices of the Kings-Bench and Common Pleas [etc.]. ESTC R10158
- Publisher:
- Printed for H. Sawbridge . . . and T. Simmons [etc.], London, 1685.
- Description:
- First edition of the expansion of Dugdale's listings of the chancellors, judges, law officers, king's serjeants and others, extending (in Holdsworth's words) "a very valuable piece of work, which, for all time, will be useful to legal historians"
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, rebacked, the dedication leaf just trimmed (legibility preserved), without the plate and portrait if called for; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79863
- Price:
- $ 400.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography
- Author:
- Obermayer, Herman J
- Title:
- Rehnquist, A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States [with] Reviews and Commentary
- Publisher:
- Threshold Editions, New York, 2009.
- Description:
- The biography said to be Obermayer's "personal tribute to his dearest friend", accompanied by a likely unique compendium of 28 reviews of the work in national magazines, newspapers, legal and law school publications, and radio and television
- Condition:
- [1] Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket [2] 8 1/2x11 printed illustrated wraps, two ink notations, else well preserved, 55 pages
- Book No.:
- W-79824
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- A Discourse Pronounced at the Funeral Obsequies of John Hooker Ashmun, Esq., Royall Professor of Law in Harvard University, Before the President, Fellows, and Faculty, in the Chapel of the University. Cohen 1925
- Publisher:
- Brown, Shattuck, and Company, Booksellers to the University, Cambridge, 1833.
- Description:
- Story's tribute to the individual who had been his sole fellow faculty member at Harvard Law School, the two of them having successfully started the rejuvenation of the school only a few years before, setting it on the path to its future renown
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 calf over green cloth boards, gilt, one vertical crease and a trace of foxing, else a very good crisp copy
- Book No.:
- W-77719
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- biography, education
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Chief Justices of England. From the Norman Conquest till the Death of Lord Tenterden. Five Volumes
- Publisher:
- Edward Thomson Co., Northport, 1894-99.
- Description:
- The most lavish and extensive edition of Lord Campbell's Chief Justices, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest through the first part of the 19th century, with 126 full page illustrations, 14 in color
- Condition:
- 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, the top edges gilt
- Book No.:
- W-55009
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- biography, Bench and Bar
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. New Edition, Edited by John Allan Mallory [etc.]. Ten Volumes
- Publisher:
- Estes & Lauriat, Opposite Old South, Boston, 1870's?].
- Description:
- The most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors, described as a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best biographies in the language", beginning with the Anglo-Saxon chancellors and continuing through the 19th century
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, gilt, worn, some hinges cracked; a good working set
- Book No.:
- W-69059
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- equity, biography
- 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:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from the Earliest Times till the Reign of King George IV. First Series, to the Revolution of 1688. In Seven Volumes.
- Publisher:
- John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1846-47.
- Description:
- The most famous of all works devoted to England's Lord Chancellors, described as a work which "challenge[s] comparison with the best biographies in the language", this set comprised of its first series (only), proceeding as far as 1688
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, marbled edges and endpapers, the spines extra gilt, somewhat rubbed, the rear board of volume one loose, else an attractive set
- Book No.:
- W-72438
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- equity, biography
- Author:
- Campbell, John Lord
- Title:
- The Lives of the Chief Justices of England. Seven Volumes
- Publisher:
- Fred. D. Lynn & Company, Publishers, Jersey City, 1881.
- Description:
- One of Lord Campbell's two principal works, providing us with an unbroken biographical record from the Norman Conquest through the early 19th century; with the two volume continuation by Sir Joseph Arnould and the seventh volume index to the whole
- Condition:
- Original olive-green cloth, gilt, a bit of wear and some browning, but a good, sound set
- Book No.:
- W-71317
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- East, Edward Hyde
- Title:
- A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown. Two Volumes [complete]
- Publisher:
- Printed by A. Strahan . . . for J. Butterworth [etc.], London, 1803.
- Description:
- Only English edition of East's principal work, the first substantial treatment of English criminal law following Blackstone's, one which "won immediate authority" and based in large part on eleven manuscripts upon which East labored for some years
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, the title pages and last leaves browned (more at the edges), else quite clean with good margins; the Taussig set
- Book No.:
- W-79498
- Price:
- $ 600.00
- Category:
- Bench and Bar, biography, criminal law, New York
- Author:
- Bowen, Catherine Drinker
- Title:
- Yankee From Olympus, Justice Holmes and His Family
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1944.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A sound copy in a worn and torn dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-57042
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
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