New Orleans: A.D. O'Brien, Jr., Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Comb-bound wraps. Octavo. 218 pages with black and white photographs. Signed by the author on cover verso with inscription, "To Judge Wright in memory / of our friendship and some / very pleasant times working / together / Dallam O'Brien."... More
N.p.: n.p., [1983?]. Modern reprint with facsimile title page. Octavo. (iv), 480, xix pages. Rebound in modern tan buckram with black and red leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress] with standard library markings. "Reprinted in Taiwan" on copyright page. Alexander James Dallas was the first..... More
Philadelphia: J. Ormrod, 1799. First Edition. Octavo. (v), 519, xiii pages. Rebound in modern tan buckram with black and red leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Alexander James Dallas was the first U.S. Supreme Court Reporter and would later serve as Treasury Secretary under..... More
Philadelphia: P. Byrne, by Fry and Kammerer, 1807. First Edition. Octavo. pp. (iv), 472, xxxiv, (xi + 1 page publisher's advertisements). Rebound in modern tan cloth with black and crimson leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress] with usual library markings. Boards are worn with..... More
Philadelphia, P.H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1830. Volume I, Third Edition. Octavo. 538 pages. Tan buckram with black leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Ownership stamp of George S. Graham to front and rear pastedowns. Graham was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania..... More
Los Angeles: ACT UP Los Angeles, 1988. First Edition. Twelve self-covered pages on six bifold sheets; individual page size of 8 1/2" x 11." Newsletter was originally folded in half and stapled for mailing; staple holes remain, as does first class stamp (25 cents) and mailing label to "Peace..... More
New York: Blast Books, 1997. First Edition (published simultaneously in hard- and softcover). Oblong Quarto (23x25.5x1.5cm); 159pp, including appended transcripts of media reports on the crimes committed by those in the photographs. Seventy mugshot pairs, reprinted full-page from the original glass plates. Coated photographic wrappers over sewn gatherings. Both..... More
![City Lawyer: The Autobiography of a Law Practice [Signed]. Arthur Garfield Hays](/pictures/thumb/7918.jpg?v=1605914177)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. Fourth Printing. Signed by Hays on front free endpaper with inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 482 pages. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Hays was co-founder of the ACLU and participated in many of the most notable trials of the..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Stated First Printing. Octavo; xi, 361pp. Blue cloth with white lettering to spine. Boards a bit edgeworn with nudging at spine ends and light curving at fore-edge. Endpapers toned with previous owner's name at top corner of front free endpaper, else pages unmarked. Binding..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Law Publishers and Booksellers, 1853. First Edition. Octavo. 650 pages. Ex-library copy (Library of Congress) with usual institutional markings. Rebound in modern maroon cloth with new LOC endpapers, and spine stamped in white. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound. Aside from institutional markings..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. 205 pages. Maroon and white dust jacket over black boards with gilt lettering. Jacket shows some toning, creasing, and some light chipping along edges. Black boards are stamped in gilt. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
![International Law for Seagoing Officers - Fifth Edition [Signed]. Burdick H. Brittin](/pictures/thumb/6546.jpeg?v=1595445066)
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Fifth Edition. Signed by Brittin on title page with inscription, "For Stella Matalas - whose skill in making me be accurate in the interview will long be remembered with pleasure! Cheers, Burdick Brittin, Sept 1986." Octavo. 503 pages. Illustrated blue dust jacket over green..... More
Waltham, MA: Gore Place Society, 1982. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's decorative brown and white card wrappers; [10],91pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear, faint foxing along textblock fore-edges, else Very Good and sound. Collection of the Bostonian Federalist lawyer and his family. More
Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 248pp. Minor wear from handling, wrappers a bit yellowed, brief soil to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. Account of the treason trial in the Soviet Union of the Jewish oppositionist Anatoly Chtcharansky. 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
Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. 89 pages. Beige printed wraps. Toning to edges with some chipping to extremities. Chipped at staples but binding is holding. Pages unmarked. A brief if detailed report on Nazi War Crimes. More
New York: John A. Gray & Green, Printers and Stereotypers, 1864. Octavo. 80 pages. Removed. Biopredation along edges of front and rear. Some scuffing and toning. Holding in binding. A serviceable copy. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Later printing with same date on both title and copyright pages but lacking month and year on the latter. Octavo. 349 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure, most heavily to top of..... More
London: Pluto Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 172 pp. + advertisements. Photographic wraps. Covers edgeworn, spine faded, bit of creasing towards edges with sticker to rear. Wraps curl slightly towards edges. Binding is sound. Black marker to fore-edge, stamp and black marker marks to half to half title..... More
Chicago: Regan Printing House, n.d., ca. 1912. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's staple bound card wrappers printed within double rule; 79pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. Polemic issued in the wake of the election of Chicago Republican machine boss William Lorimer to the Senate. The..... More
[Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1991]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey pictorial glossy card wrappers; vii,[1],241pp. Very light wear from handling, else Fine. More
Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1892. Fourth Edition, Revised. Octavo. 627 pages + 4 p. advertisements. Ex-library with standard internal markings, but nothing on exterior. Brown boards are stamped in gilt at spine. Worn at extremities, but binding and interior sound. A history of law as implemented in..... More
Philadelphia: Wm. J. Dornan, 1888. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [2],11pp. Title page separated but present, extremities a bit toned and brittle, faint vertical fold; overall Good, internally fresh. Address delivered by the leading Philadelphia physician on the need to reform the legal system in relation to mental illness..... More
![Skånes Historia Till Saxo och Skånelagen [The History of Skåne to Saxo and the Skåne Act]....](/pictures/thumb/9826.jpg?v=1622737069)
Stockholm: Norstedts, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21.5x15x3cm); 497pp, including index. Nearly 100 photographic and documentary illustrations. Pictorial dustjacket; volume in oat-colored true linen, with maroon, black and gilt spine titling. Gray topstain to textblock. Entirely in Swedish. Dustjacket shows minimal corner- and edgewear, with one small (1cm) closed tear..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 112 pages. White unclipped dust jacket printed in red, grey, and black. Red boards stamped in gilt. Light edgewear and toning to jacket. Very light scuffing to boards and spine cocked. Binding is sound. Ownership stamp and date..... More