Philadelphia, PA: T. & J.W. Johnson, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Rare. Poor copy with loose pages, chipping, highlighting, inscription, and fraying. More
America / Philadelphia: Printed for the subscribers, by Robert Bell, 1772. First Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" The first edition of an important work of tremendous influence on the Founding Fathers and the course of American Democracy. Issued for subscribers only. A copy with fine provenance... More
![Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the Third [Volume III]. Williamchristian Blackstone, Edward](/pictures/thumb/005494967.jpg?v=1559695280)
London: A. Strahan for J. Butterworth and J. Cooke, 1809. 15th Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Volume III only. Full period brown polished calf, spine with raised bands (some rubbing, lacks spine label; minor foxing). PROVENANCE: Ink inscription of Thomas Seymour, Middle Temple, London, 1816; pencil... More
Washington, D.C. United States Supreme Court, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Signed by the author of this decision, Associate Justice William J. Brennan, at top of page 1 in blue ink. 24+[8] pages (the 8 pages at rear represent dissents in whole or in part)... More
NP [Sacramento?]: NP, 1855. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" VG in cloth/boards (rebound; lacks original wraps, slight foxing). 8vo 70pp Report to the California legislature (both Assembly and Senate) by the state prison inspectors; includes testimony from various individuals (including 3 appendices) and a list... More
U.S.A. Institute of East Asian Studies, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tight copy with no writing or marks, has some spotting on cover and page edges. More
Portsmouth NH: Published by John W. Foster, 1819. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition, in original boards, of one of the most significant and influential of the early cases appearing before the Supreme Court, a landmark decision dealing with the application of the Contract... More
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" xxvi + 297pp. Publishers ads printed on endpapers. Corners bumped, cloth rubbed and soiled in places, spine ends frayed; interior is clean and bright, binding is tight. More
Los Angeles: Censorship Today, 1968. First Edition. Full Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First 8 issues of this pioneering journal, featuring contributions by Henry Miller, Irving Wallace, et al. Volume I, Number 1 begins with Stanley Fleishman's "Obscenity and the Supreme Court". This is Fleishman's copy , bound... More
New York: Fowlers & Wells, Pherenological Cabinet, 1850. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. V, "sixth thousand". Scarce copy in the original dark brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. A crisp, tight copy, entirely unrestored (has some nicking to top of spine; some foxing... More
Chicago: Law Club/City of Chicago, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good in boards (stains/sl wear to spine/covers; sm hole/ffep). Sm 8vo 83 An ecdotes of the "Mr. Dooley" variety concerning the law; introduction by Edg ar B. Tolman. Probably limited to about 150..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1894. First Edition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition of this influential work. Bound in 19th-century 3/4 brown morocco over matching cloth, spine with raised bands, gilt arms of the Inner Temple Library on spine and front cover (some rubbing; a few small... More
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good in cloth (rubbing/sl stains to ext; int slightly shaken). Sm 8vo x+282 +[2] See Halkett & Laing VI, 350 for "Five Years' Penal Servitude"; both of these works concern debtor's prisons. More
London: Wyman & Sons, 1879. 1st ed. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good+ in cloth (spine worn with upper half detatched but present; ex-library marks/bookplate). 8vo [8],252,[10]pp Extremely rare work on prison reform in Great Britain (only one copy locat ed on ORION, in microform; "19th... More
London: John Hearne, 1833. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Rare first edition of this early and influential work arguing for the abolition of the death penalty. The auhtor's ingenious argument, at a time when over 200 crimes still carried the death penalty, was that as... More
