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- Author:
- Wiener, Frederick Bernays
- Title:
- Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) [published in printed form in the 1965 Year Book of the American Philosophical Society]
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., 1965.
- Description:
- Colonel Wiener's memorial to the Justice (delivered before the American Philosophical Society) whom he had first met as a student at Harvard Law School in 1928 and who "had a tremendous effect on me", one that lasted throughout his life
- Condition:
- Typescript, double-spaced, stapled at the upper left hand corner, the last page now detached, housed in a modern protective cloth sleeve; 17 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76744
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Inns of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Third edition. Wing D2490
- Publisher:
- Printed for Christop. Wilkinson [and two others] [etc.], London, 1680.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the 7 plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, ex-library, the front board detached and the title and first leaf loose; with the armorial bookplate of Charles, Viscount Bruce
- Book No.:
- W-74934
- Price:
- $ 850.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, 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:
- Story, Joseph
- Title:
- Sketch of the Life of Samuel Dexter . . . As Delivered to the Grand Jurors of the District of Massachusetts, and to the Members of the Suffolk Bar, At the opening of the Court in Boston, Published at Their Joint Request [etc.]. Cohen 1975
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Eliot, Boston, 1816.
- Description:
- Story's eulogy of the Boston lawyer whom he characterized in his 'Autobiography' as "at the head of the Massachusetts Bar, and truly princeps inter pares" and whom Story later chose, in his Dane lecture, as a role model for students in the law school
- Condition:
- Original ?self-wraps, disbound, quite browned, last leaf repaired (text legible), now preserved in a modern 3/4 calf case; uncommon, four copies in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-77583
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- biography
- Author:
- Dugdale, William
- Title:
- Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books . . . Innes of Court and Chancery [etc.]. Second edition
- Publisher:
- Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Rober, John Martin [etc.], London, 1671.
- Description:
- The foremost early treatise devoted to the history of the legal profession (particularly to the Inns of Court), still of value, termed "a pioneering work . . . and influential" by Dr. Baker and "the chief authority" by Holdsworth; with the six plates
- Condition:
- Contemporary calf, worn, front board detached, embrowning; sound
- Book No.:
- W-60145
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Inns of Court, criminal law, biography
- Author:
- Title:
- Students, Teachers Find an Hour to Remember Justice Frankfurter [in the March 11, 1965 issue, noting that over 600 members of the faculty, students, and friends had attended the February 26 memorial service presided over by Dean Erwin Griswold]
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Record, Vol. 40 No. 5, Cambridge, 1965.
- Description:
- Portions of the remarks delivered at the memorial service for Justice Frankfurter, including those of Austin Wakeman Scott (who had known the Justice from his days in the Law School in the first decade of the century) and Paul Freund inter alia
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled self wraps, one page crinkled, else a good copy, now housed in a modern cloth folding case; no copy separately recorded in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-80420
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Marshall, John
- Title:
- "The Events of My Life". An Autobiographical Sketch by John Marshall. Introduction by William H. Rehnquist. Edited by Lee C. Bollinger and John C. Dann [based on the manuscript here edited "to represent the original as faithfully as possible"]
- Publisher:
- Clements Library and Supreme Court Historical Society, Ann Arbor and Washington, 2001.
- Description:
- The work which Edward Corwin called "far and away the most important writing by Chief Justice Marshall concerning himself", his effort prompted by a request from Justice Story, the manuscript essentially unknown until 1932 when sold by the family
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled oversized wraps, with six full page illustrations, 30 pages, a fine copy now housed in a custom cloth folder
- Book No.:
- W-80418
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY, Manuscripts
- Author:
- Hand, Learned
- Title:
- A Tribute to Benjamin Nathan Cardozo [appearing in the first issue--Volume 1, Number 1--of the Committee's "Contemporary Jewish Record"]
- Publisher:
- American Jewish Committee, New York, 1938.
- Description:
- Judge Hand's "beautiful tribute" upon the death of Justice Cardozo, originally broadcast over station WHN in New York on July 19, 1938 and published here for the first time, a later modified version appearing in several law reviews the following year
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a trifle worn, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-80424
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- jewish law, Supreme Court, biography
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