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The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran. Translated by Ruth Martin. Advanced Reading Copy. June 2025 [so stated on the front wrap]
Bazyar, Shida · 2025
$35.00 (€31.17 | £26.02 | ¥5,530)
Melbourne, London, Minneapolis Scribe 2025. Original blue printed wraps, a very good copy, 266 pages. ¶ The back wrap additionally stating: "Please note that these proofs are uncorrected and that changes may be made to the text. Before quoting any material in a review, please ...
The Geography of Marriage, or Legal Perplexities of Wedlock in the United States
Snyder, William L · 1889
$250.00 (€222.62 | £185.86 | ¥39,500)
New York and London G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press 1889. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered, decorated endpapers and pastedowns, a very good copy; with the errata slip and with the bookplate of F.A. Carle. ¶ First edition of Snyder's comprehensive work on America...
Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as Administered in England and America. Thirteenth Edition. Two Volumes [complete]
Story, Joseph · 1886
$1,500.00 (€1,335.70 | £1,115.19 | ¥236,999)
Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1886. Modern half leather over buckram boards, crimson morocco labels, neatly gilt ruled and decorated, a very good clean set. ¶ The penultimate American edition, one undertaken by Melville Bigelow, carefully based on Story's own last edition ...
Investigatory Powers of Committee on the Judiciary with respect to Its Impeachment Inquiry. Report together with Additional Supplemental and Separate Views [of Robert F. Drinan, Robert McClory, Lawrence J. Hogan, Joseph J. Maraziti, and others]
, · 1974
$125.00 (€111.31 | £92.93 | ¥19,750)
Washington Government Printing Office 1974. Original printed stapled wraps, a trifle worn but sound, 15 pages; three copies in a law library in this country in OCLC. ¶ The report confirming the Committee's subpoena power, ultimately leading to President Nixon's resignation; wi...
A Discourse on the Study of the Law, read in the public schools at Oxford, Oct. 24, 1758. Octavo [the first of the reviews "of all the important books on law" which were written by Burke for the Annual Register between 1758 and 1765]
Burke, Edmund · 1758
$350.00 (€311.66 | £260.21 | ¥55,300)
London Annual Register 1758. Original seven pages, disbound, light browning, else well preserved, with good margins; pages 452-458. ¶ Burke's review of the first edition of Blackstone's "Discourse", praising it as "a solid, judicious, and elegant oration", reflecting their joi...
Autograph Note, Signed, to Clarence Darrow, undated, in pencil, entirely in Lewis's hand and signed by him reading "Sunday / 6:30 / Dear Clarence/ If possible, keep / yourself free for a / conference after the / service tonite / Sinclair Lewis"
Lewis, Sinclair · 0
$450.00 (€400.71 | £334.56 | ¥71,100)
Not known No date. Notebook like paper measuring 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, three punchholes, one vertical and one horizontal fold, else very well preserved.
The Prohibition Mania. A Reply to Professor Irving Fisher and Others. Hunsberger 212
Darrow, Clarence, & Victor S. Yarros · 1927
$45.00 (€40.07 | £33.46 | ¥7,110)
New York Boni and Liveright 1927. Original crimson cloth, the front board and spine gilt-lettered,some wear and light fading, but overall a good copy, internally quite clean and fresh. ¶ Darrow's sole book length work on a subject which long preoccupied him, and to which he de...
The Story of My Life [A pirated edition, seemingly unrecorded, of Darrow's autobiography, its dustjacket and title page based on the Grosset Universal Library paperback edition, with other changes designed to disguisee its legal origin; no copy in OCLC]
Darrow, Clarence · 0
$750.00 (€667.85 | £557.59 | ¥118,500)
?Taiwan or Hong Kong No publisher Stated No date. Original cloth, a clean copy in a worn, chipped dustjacket with the Chinese style ownership stamp of Dallas lawyer C. Wayne Huffman on the front blank. ¶ Darrow's principal autobiographical work, written in his 70's, full of re...
A Century of Courts, The Courts of Justice Act 1924
Howlin, Niamh (ed.) · 2024
$45.00 (€40.07 | £33.46 | ¥7,110)
Dublin Four Courts Press [for The Irish Legal History Society] 2024. Original cloth in the dustjacket, as new.
Louis D. Brandeis's MIT Lectures on Law (1892-1894)
Cochran, Jr., Robert F. (ed.) · 2012
$35.00 (€31.17 | £26.02 | ¥5,530)
Durham Carolina Academic Press 2012. A well preserved hardcover in the dustjacket; presentation copy "6-1-12 To Mel, Thanks for your help & encouragement on this project. All my best, Bob".
Trial by Jury. The Birth-right of the People of England. With Illustrations from Bracton, Glanvil, Fortescue, Littleton, Coke, Selden, Hale, Hawles, Blackstone [and 53 Others, Including Erskine, Bentham, Disraeli, Montesquieu, Story, and de Tocqueville]
, · 1865
$1,500.00 (€1,335.70 | £1,115.19 | ¥236,999)
London Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly 1865. ?Original green pebbled gilt-lettered stabbed wraps, worn, rebacked, ex-library, front blank detached, a fragile yet usable copy.
Typed letter signed, one page, on Law School of Harvard University letterhead to the Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock. Bart. dated 29th August 1930, signed in ink "Roscoe Pound"
Pound, Roscoe · 1930
$150.00 (€133.57 | £111.52 | ¥23,700)
Cambridge 1930. One sheet folded horizontally and vertically, quite worn and chipped, definite marginal and fold browning, but entirely legible. ¶ A personal letter from one of the giants of Anglo-American legal history and jurisprudence to the other, Pound thanking Pollock fo...
Infidels and Heretics, An Agnostic's Anthology. Not in Hunsberger
Darrow, Clarence, and Wallace Rice (comps.) · 1975
$75.00 (€66.79 | £55.76 | ¥11,850)
New York Gordon Press 1975. Original red pebbled cloth, gilt, a very good copy; the facsimile reprint of the original 1929 edition; with the frontispiece of Clarence Darrow. ¶ Some 200 selections from among the greatest minds of Western thought, including Darwin, Nietzsche, Sh...
Justice at Nuernberg. A Pictorial Record of the Trial of Nazi War Criminals by the International Tribunal at Nuernberg, Germany, 1945-46. Photographed by Charles W. Alexander, Director of Photography for the Trial. Text by Anne Keeshan
, · 1946
$85.00 (€75.69 | £63.19 | ¥13,430)
Chicago Marvel Press 1946. Original pictorial wraps, spiralbound; 187 pages; wrappers dusty and toned but otherwise a very good copy. ¶ A stunningly visual work, full-page photographs complemented by text on facing pages, portraying the trial's preparation, and the trial itsel...
"Like a Gothic Cathedral", Paul Elder's Grant Avenue Book and Art Shop 1909-1922
Harlan, Robert D · 1988
$125.00 (€111.31 | £92.93 | ¥19,750)
San Francisco Roxburghe & Zamorano 1988. Original light-tan sewn illustrated wraps, a very good copy; one of 125 copies printed at the Feathered Serpent Press in San Rafael. ¶ The keepsake presented to the members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano clubs on their joint meeting in S...
The Works of Clarence S. Darrow [The radical publisher, Samuel Hammersmark, published two of Darrow's works, including 'Resist Not Evil' described on the verso of this broadsheet, as well as works by Tolstoy, John Peter Altgeld, and Edgar Lee Masters]
, · 1904
$150.00 (€133.57 | £111.52 | ¥23,700)
Chicago The Hammersmark Publishing Co. 1904?. Broadsheet measuring about 3 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches tipped onto a plain sheet about 5 x 7 inches, in fine condition. ¶ An unrecorded broadsheet not discussed by any of Darrow's principal biographers announcing what would conjecturally...
Criminal Justice at Newgate 1616-1627: Some Manuscript Reports in the Harvard Law School
Baker, J.H. · 1973
$75.00 (€66.79 | £55.76 | ¥11,850)
Dublin The Irish Jurist 1973. Original stapled self wraps, an off-print from Volume VIII of The Irish Jurist, lightly worn else a very good, clean copy; 16 pages.
Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present
Crooks, Peter & Thomas Muir (eds.) · 2023
$45.00 (€40.07 | £33.46 | ¥7,110)
Dublin Four Courts Press 2023. Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustwrapper; The Irish Legal History Society Series, Volume 32. ¶ Thirteen essays, including Paul Brand's 'Magna Carta in Ireland 1215-1320', then continuing through the centuries, and concluding with Peter...
George Psychoundakis: A Letter to C.A. Trypanis
Leigh Fermor, Patrick · 1999
$150.00 (€133.57 | £111.52 | ¥23,700)
Athens American College of Greece 1999. Original tan cloth, lightly sunned, else well preserved, the front board printed in red and black; one of 300 copies bound in cloth. ¶ Leigh Fermor's public letter praising the translation of the Odyssey into Cretan Greek, the translatio...
Sixteenth-Century England: A View From The Trust Cases
Jones, N.G · 2023
$25.00 (€22.26 | £18.59 | ¥3,950)
London Selden Society 2023. Original red, printed, stapled wraps, a near fine copy, 37 pages. ¶ Professor Jones's Selden Society Lecture, delivered in the Old Hall of Lincoln's Inn, July 9, 2014, in which he seeks to place trusts in the broader context of Tudor England, with e...