Censorship and First Amendment Rights: A Primer
Amer Booksellers Foundation for, December 1991. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A VG copy with minor wear to wraps and edges. Spine remains tight and uncreased. More
Law
Patent, Trademark and Copyright Laws (Intellectual Property Titles)
Bureau Of National Affairs, January 2017. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Near fine copy, includes CD-ROM at rear (unopened). Has 'received' ink stamp. More
Justice Without Law?
Oxford University Press, April 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Inscribed and signed by the author. Clean, tight copy. More
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench Vol. VI (Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law Vol. CXVIII - 118)
T. & J. Johnson & Co., 1872. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good condition. Later brown cloth, contrasting red and black leather labels (ink stamp; some foxing; wear and darkening to cloth; smoke damage). More
Lord Goddard: A biography of Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice of England
Harrap, January 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG+/VG [light edgewear, foxing] 8vo 336pp. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaperB/W Photographs. More
Farmington
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very good harcover in jacket (jacket has some darkening, minor spotting and wear; slight wear to book, 2 small vintage ink stamps of prior owner). New edition of this semi-autobiographical tale, with a new Preface by Darrow... More
English Criminal Justice: an Introduction for American Readers
Institute Of Judicial Administration, University, January 1977. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Used in yellow wraps. Slight spine slant with light rubbing to the wraps. A clean, tight copy. More
Orphans Legacy: Or, A Testamentary abridgment. In Three Parts. I. Of Last-Wills and Testaments. II. Of Executors and Administrators. III. Of Legacies and Devises. wherein the most material points of law relating to that subject are succinctly treated as well according to the common and temporal, as ecclesiastical and civil laws of this realm : illustrated with a great variety of select cases in the law of both professions, as well delighted in the theory, as useful for the practice of all such as study the one, or are either active or passive in the other
Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires ..., for Christopher Wilkinson, 1685. First Thus. Leather. The Third, much enlarged edition of this important legal reference pertaining to wills and testaments. Bound in period brown calf, expertly rebacked in brown calf with raised bands, red morocco label, gilt..... More
Instruccion Civica
[Talleres Graficos De Aniceto Lopez], 1940. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Half brown leather over green cloth, spine with raised bands (fading and wear to leather; text browned with some creasing and tiny marginal tears to text margins; ink name). EXCEPTIONALLY RARE text of Argentine law..... More
Capital Punishments : Crime and Chastisement in London to 1900
Gardners Books, August 1992. Trade Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A VG copy. Light creasing and light edge/corner wear to wraps. Pages are clean and tight.B&W Photographs and Illustrations. More
Group Problems in Crime and Punishment and Other Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law
Routledge and Kegan Paul [1955], 0000. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG in cloth (ink name) 8vo 309+15pp Series: International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction. More
Contact 6: The Criminal Man. A Special Collection of New Writing, Art and Ideas
Angel Island Publications [1960], 1960. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fair conditiong, well-worn with significant creasing, chips, tears, and rubbing. 155 pp. Work by Philip Levine, Nelson Algren, James Schevill, et al.Illustrated by B/w photos. More
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of Judicature of New-Hampshire Volume VIII
Marsh, Capen, Lyon and Webb, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Covers the years 1835-1837. Good condition. Later brown cloth, red leather spine labels. Heavy soiling, tanning, foxing, and wear to both interior and exterior. Some pencil marking to text. 600 pp. More
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New-Hampshire 1827-1829: Volume IV
Currier, French and Brown, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good condition. Later brown cloth, red leather spine labels. Heavy soiling, tanning, and wear to both interior and exterior. Some pencil marking to text. 590 pp. More
Law and Jurisprudence in American History: Cases and Materials (American Casebook Series)
West Group, January 1995. Hardcover. Third Edition. A Good copy. Book has shelfwera, bumped corners, a former owner's name on the front endpaper, and highlighting and marginalia throughout. 4to. More
The United States, the United Nations, and Micronesia: Questions of Prcedure, Substance and Faith (Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 11, No. 1, Fall 1989)
Michigan Journal of International Law, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" With a typed letter signed from author laid in (presenting this work). Very Good condition, clean and tight. Pages 11-89. Nice copy. More
Free Press Anthology
Free Speech League, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good copy in the original blue-green cloth stamped in gilt (general light wear). Previously sold as Ralph Ginzburg's copy with his annotations and markings. Ginzburg was famously prosecuted by Robert Kennedy for obscenity - and convicted... More
The Crown Court,
Butterworths, January 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG+ Used in green laminate boards and black cloth binding. Written after the Courts Act of 1971, which created the new Crown Court. A bright, clean copy. More
Sketches of the Irish Bar (Volume I)
Redfield, 1856. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Poor reading copy only (heavy staining and wear throughout). 388+ plate Volume 1 only (of set of 2). Memoir and notes by R. Shelton Mackenzie . Fine production of the noted Irish politician and dramatist (1791-1851), originally published (posthumously) in..... More
The gentleman's law magazine: : containing a variety of the most useful practical forms of writings, which occur in the course of business: viz. articles of agreement; bonds; bills; indentures of apprenticeship; awards; releases; letters and powers of attorney; deeds; mortgages; grants; bills of sale; leases; assignments; letters of license; compositions; insurances; receipts, &c. &c. : To which are added, forms of wills and codicils; forms of proceedings in courts of probate; private complaints; complaints of single g. jurors; justices' summonses, attachments, warrants, subpoenas, venires, records, executions, recognizances, and mittimuses; officers' returns on writs, executions, and warrants; bail-pieces; affidavits; complaints of overseers of the poor, &c. and proceedings on the same; writs; executions, &c. And also a variety of declarations in the different actions brought to the county court, and petitions, &c. in the Supreme Court, &c. &c.
Huntington and Fitch, 1804. First Edition. Leather. First edition of this early-19th century legal handbook. A fair copy in period full brown calf (heavily rubbed; text foxed throughout; some pages have folded corners, a few have tears or chips with no loss of text). PROVENANCE: Has several period ink signatures..... More
Juvenile Justice in America 3rd ed. [with] Instructor's Manual]. SIGNED
Macmillan, 1990. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition, 504 pp. - 2 volume set includes hardcover book and paperback 111-page Instructor's Manual. Signed by author. ISBN#'s 0024105317; 0024105325.Illustrated by B&W illus. More
The Constitution: Its Story and Battles
Kerr-Jefferson Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. A very nice copy of the first edition of this scarce work on the US Constitution. Bound in original brown cloth, twin red leather labels stamped in gilt (slight wear; front inner hinge starting; bookplate and ink stamp of prior owners on front endpapers)..... More
New commentaries on the laws of England (partly founded on Blackstone) [4 volumes]
Butterworths, 1853. Third Edition. Leather Binding. SUPERB PROVENANCE: Presentation copy, inscribed opposite title page of Volume I by the publishers to a leading 19th-century British figure, both prominent and infamous: 'Sir Charles E. Trevelyan K.C.B. etc. etc. etc. With the Publisher's respects.' This is followed by a second inscription in..... More
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, Appellants, Against United States of America: Brief for Appelants, Volume I, Law [and] Volume II, Facts
C.G. Burgoyne, January 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG Library binding, overall soiling to binding, library bookplate to front endpaper.Numerous Folding Plates. More
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas Volume II
A. Strahan for J. Butterworth and J. Cooke, January 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Volume II only. Bound in later brown cloth, contrasting red and black leather spine labels (general light wear and stains, and some dampstains to cloth, some light foxing to text..... More