[LAW - CIVIL LIBERTIES] HAYS, Arthur Garfield

Let Freedom Ring

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt; dustjacket; 341pp. Half-title toned, apparently from a laid-in clipping (no longer present); slight offsetting from bookplate on front pastedown; still a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, lightly chipped at spine ends but unclipped, generally clean and crisp; easily Very Good. With the ownership signature and bookplate of political scientist W. Brooke Graves (see note below). Laid-in are two printed promotional pieces for the book, including a 4-pp prospectus and an illustrated broadsheet.

Arthur Garfield Hays (1881-1954) was a prominent legal scholar, civil libertarian and progressive political organizer; in 1920 he was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), for which he served as General Counsel from 1920 until his death in 1954 . This is Hays' first and best-known work, a legal analysis of contemporary American events in relation to civil liberties and freedom of expression that sprang directly from his experience with the ACLU. Includes chapters on the Scopes trial, the Sacco & Vanzetti case, the American Mercury censorship trial, the Passaic silk-mill strike, and others. This copy from the library of political scientist and Constitutional scholar W. Brooke Graves (1899-1973), whose works American Intergovernmental Relations (1964) and American State Government (1936) are considered landmark works in their fields. An important book seldom found in nice condition; the prospectus and promotional broadsheet included here are previously unknown to us.

Price: $650.00

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