A Portrait of the Black Attorney in Chicago
Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 62pp. Faint soil to wrapper edges, else As New - a bright, clean, unread copy, free of markings or wear. More
Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 62pp. Faint soil to wrapper edges, else As New - a bright, clean, unread copy, free of markings or wear. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Small octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 289pp. Near fine in crisp dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks at extremities, VG+. More
Boston: New England Free Press, 1963? Offprint. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's yellow staplebound self-wrappers; 45-49pp. Brief ink note to upper cover, else Fine. First published in New University Thought, Vol. 3, no. 4, 1963. More
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 48pp. Near Fine. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. Contributors to this issue include Vern Countryman, Isidore Silver; numerous tributes to Justice..... More
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 40pp. Near Fine. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. Contributors to this issue include Eric Liebermann, Isidore Silver; Emily Goodman, others. More
New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 56pp. Near Fine. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. Contributors to this issue include Al Pinkney, Staughton Lind, Junella Haynes, Donald Addleston..... More
[New York: National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee], 1979. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); photo-illustrated staple-bound card wrappers; 14pp. Disbound, light shelf wear, else Good to Very Good. Annual publication of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, established in 1951 to oppose the House Un-American Activities Committee. This issue devoted to the..... More
New York: Grand Jury Project, 1976. First Edition. Quarterly issued by the Grand Jury Project, an organization devoted to jury reform, articles chiefly covering cases of corruption and the practice of imprisoning witnesses who refuse to testify, often members of minority groups. This issue announces the release of Jill Raymond..... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Gray's tell-all memoir, written on Death Row at Sing-Sing while awaiting execution for the murder of his lover Ruth Snyder's husband. The trial of Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder, which resulted in the first execution of a woman in New York's electric chair..... More
London: D.I. Eaton, 1795. First Edition. Petition composed while the author, known today as "the Father of Reform," was "confined, in the condition of a cripple, to the house," to be read at a meeting with the sheriff of the County of Lincoln regarding two bills proposed by Lord Grenville..... More
Paris: Librairie de l'Echo de la Sorbonne, 1872. First Edition. Account of the trial following the hostage situation at the rue Haxo in the final days of the Paris Commune, which resulted in forty-seven deaths and seven death sentences. Small octavo (ca. 19cm.); contemporary morocco-backed gilt-lettered cloth prize binding, gilt..... More
Dallas: University Press in Dallas, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 109pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed and edgeworn jacket, Very Good. Printed bookplate of W.H. Jack on verso of front endpaper. More
Washington DC: by the Author, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 21pp. A few tiny flecks of soil to covers, else about Fine. Attack on Oregon Senator Jonathan Bourne (1855-1940) and the system of "direct legislation" advocated by Bourne and others in the years leading up to..... More
[Johannesburg]: S.A. Institute of Race Relations, 1960. First Edition. Delineation of the South African Pass Laws, defining a "pass" as a document "which is not carried by all races, but only by people of a particular race...[and] is connected with restriction of the freedom of movement of the person concerned"..... More
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white printed staplebound wrappers. [4],18,[2](ads)pp. Fine. Modernizing legal changes proposed in order to lessen the extant "legal disabilities" of African women. More
Philadelphia: Civil Liberties Committee of Philadelphia, 1957. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original grey staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 31pp. Upper wrapper fore-edge very slightly foxed, ownership signature. Very Good. Published at the Committee's Yearly Meeting of Friends. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1938. First Edition. 8vo. 22.5cm x 15.5cm. Publisher's green cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine and front board, strong and bright, but with a large patch of discolouration from a spill to the bottom corner of the front board, purely superficial, not..... More
Winchester, Virginia: Press of Jonathan Foster, 1811. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Contemporary full sheep, with rustic tooled chain-link borders to board edges; leather spine label; 334pp. Boards stained, rubbed and worn, with a triangular patch of leather lacking from rear cover; spine crown pulled, with brief loss; endpapers and terminal..... More
The Hague: International Commission of Jurists, [1958]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers printed within double rule; 41pp. Light wear and toning to extremities, else Very Good or better. More
Geneva: International Commission of Jurists, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); original white printed card wrappers (dust-soiled); [2],153pp. A bit soiled, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound. Report covers the single party system, the National Syndicalist community, and civil liberties in Spain, beginning with the rule of law in..... More
Jerusalem: Israel Law Review / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1988. First Edition. Large octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's tan simulated cloth lettered in red; [8],[337]-811pp. Light wear to boards, corners bumped, else Near Fine. More
[Cambridge]: Harvard Law Review Association, 1949. Offprint. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's tan printed staplebound card wrappers; [353]-412pp. Shallow chips along wrapper extremities due to poor paper stock, else Near Very Good, internally about fine. Extended piece on Felix Frankfurter, appointed by FDR to the Supreme Court, a position he held from..... More
New York: v.p., 1864. The publisher Henry Dawson issued a new edition of "The Federalist Papers" in 1863 based on original texts rather than the revised versions from later years, opening with a lengthy introduction. The author of the two present pamphlets, John Jay (1817 - 1894), was a lawyer..... More
[Lansing, MI: Majority Wins, 1974]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's green staplebound card wrappers; [2],iii,[1],39,11pp. Fine condition. Order form laid in. More
Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1985. First Edition. Memoirs of the former U.S. Attorney General during the Watergate scandal. Cartha "Deke" DeLoach was head of the FBI's Criminal Records Division and a close confidant of J. Edgar Hoover's. He would eventually rise to the position of Deputy Associate Director during the..... More