New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1954. First Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Inscribed by author to economist Herbert J. Cummings on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Herbert Cummings / From an old / colleague and / friend, with / kindly memories / Adolf A Berle Jr / November 1954."..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1940. Later printing. Quarto. 395 pages. Signed by Berle to economist Herbert J. Cummings on front free endpaper with inscription, "For Herbert Cummings / with all good wishes / for glorious adventure / and safe return / Adolf Berle / February 15, 1942." Graphic..... More
![Just Between Us Blacks [Signed to Judge J. Skelly Wright]. Carl T. Rowan](/pictures/thumb/002380.jpg?v=1576264357)
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition, First Printing with numberline to 2 in keeping with publisher's identification methods at the time. Signed by the author on half title to federal judge J. Skelly Wright with inscription "For J. Skelly Wright, who had guts when it was most needed --..... More
New York: The New Press, 2003. First Edition. Inscribed by author on title page: "9-30-03. For Bill—Thanks for all your work for equal justice for all over the years. David Cole." Octavo; xiii + 315pp, including index. Photographic dust jacket. Gray boards with black spine and silver spine lettering... More
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on half-title. Octavo; viii + 513pp, including index. Sixteen pages of B&W documentary photographs. Photographic dust jacket collage. Gray boards with raspberry cloth spine; silver spine lettering. Unclipped dust jacket with minimal scuffing to plastic coating on..... More
Washington, D.C.: Washington Law Book Co., 1941. First Edition. Octavo; xxx + 751pp, including index. Blue "leatherized" cloth with blind-stamped frame on face and central cartouche containing title and author's name in gold; gold lettering on spine with title between two faux raised bands. Unusual fold-out four-color "Kaleidoscope of Justice"..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition. Inscribed by author.on front free endpaper: "For Bill & Harriett, with all best wishes, Love, Larry." Octavo; ix + 385pp, including index. Photographic dust jacket with orange tint. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering on front panel and spine. Unclipped dust jacket..... More
Rome: Edizioni Punctum, 2005. First Edition. Signed by photographer on title page, which is gathered with text at the end rather than the beginning of the volume. Octavo; unpaginated [76pp + xiii]. Sixty-two full-page photographs in color and B&W. Ancillary text in parallel Italian and English. Coated paper on boards;..... More
[Cincinnati]: Women’s Division of Christian Service, 1951. Quarto; 746pp plus fold-out charts. Ownership inscription of Pulitzer-Prize winning Historian David Herbert Donald on front free endpaper. Murray’s first book, States' Law on Race and Color became, in the words of Thurgood Marshall, "The Bible for Civil Rights lawyers," as..... More
![Is Drew Guilty? [wrapper title]. Peter V. Cacchione](/pictures/thumb/5857.jpg?v=1576605520)
New York: Peter V. Cacchione, [1944]. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Octavo. 23 pages. An attempt by New York City Councilman Cacchione to explain the facts surrounding the case of Brooklyn Patrolman James LeRoy Drew, who was accused of Anti-Semitism and was cleared and restored to his duties after an investigation..... More
Roger Brooke Taney was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1836 through 1864. He was an antagonist of Lincoln, a Southern sympathizer, and, most famously, ruled in 1857 in the Dred Scott case that African Americans could not be considered citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery... More
Moscow: People's Commissariat of Justice of the U.S.S.R., 1937. English translation printed in Moscow in 1937. Octavo; viii + 580pp. Neutral paper on boards with brown cloth spine; black lettering on front panel--duplicate of title page--and spine. Original binding is chipped, nicked and abraded on all edges and surfaces; cloth..... More
Hardcover. Fort Leavenworth: The General Service Schools Press, 1925. First Edition. Octavo; xii + 330pp, including appendices of military legal statutes and index. Tan boards with black lettering on spine and front panel. Moderately soiled from use; nudging to crown and foot of spine; corners scuffed. Green endpapers; first..... More
Reprint. Lucknow: Eastern Book Company, 1977. Reprint of 1975 edition with new Supplement. Octavo. 311 pages. Inscribed to previous owner on front free endpaper, but we have been unable to determine definitively if the signature comes from the author. Illustrated dust jacket with 40 rupee price present. Black boards with..... More
Cambridge / Boston: The Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. Stated First Printing. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "For Carl Claudy, with best wishes from one who has long admired your sense of humor, your imagination, and your facility with the English language. Walker..... More
First Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition.0 Octavo. 255 pages. Inscribed by author on title page to William Safire. Inscription reads, "For Bill - / My friend who was / very much responsible for the / publication of this first work. Thanks, / Sammy Rawls / 9..... More
Richmond: Johnson & Warner, 1810. Second Edition. Octavo; vii, [viii-1], 2-688pp +16pp index & errata. Full leather with blindstamped border and title card to spine. Boards fairly heavily edgeworn, with bumping / fraying to corners, scuffs down front joint, and some general smudging and soiling. Evidence of earlier repair down..... More
Portland, ME: Loring, Short & Harmon, 1871. First Edition. Octavo. 612 pages. Full contemporary leather with red leather spine label. Light scratching/scuffing to boards. Cracked at bottom of spine with a half inch of separation, but binding is sound. Light foxing and tanning to pages. Ownership inscription of George..... More