Search Results: Legal from Charles Agvent

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925 (1928). Third Edition. hardcover. A gorgeous copy, beautifully preserved, with the original dustwrapper which has a long, jagged but closed tear on the front panel that, under mylar, is not terribly offensive. Fine in a lovely dustwrapper. A novel that is really a thinly disguised autobiography of the great labor lawyer. INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper "To my good friend Geo/Bye- who managed to get/money for stuff that he would/have been glad to pay any/journalists or magazine editors/for printing them/With regard and affection of" and SIGNED "Clarence Darrow/June 6th 1929." Bye was a public relations and literary agent who worked for Darrow placing his articles as well as for other notable figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt. Darrow's sharp humor is readily apparent in his inscription.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Authorized Edition. Hardcover. Rear hinge cracking but cover still fairly tight. Rubbed, corners worn. Good or better. Contemporary 1/2 morocco and marbled boards. Includes a chapter on Law & Insanity.Rubbed, corners worn. Good or better

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightly musty. Near Fine in a Good but tired dustwrapper. Scholary biography of this great legal mind. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Joseph De Caro/with best wishes/David A. Lockmiller/Nov. 4, 1939."

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine example of a scarce title. Original gilt-lettered white cloth. We have handled several copies of this title over the years and all have been bound in printed boards. This is the first time we have seen this binding which is fancier and likely produced in a much smaller quantity. A scarce collection of eleven speeches prefaced by the comment: "These chance utterances of faith and doubt are printed for a few friends who will care to keep them." Holmes served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1899 until 1902 when he was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt, a position he held until his retirement in 1932. Holmes became famous for his liberal interpretations of the United States Constitution and was known as the "Great Dissenter" because of his disagreement with the views of his colleagues on the Court. His lectures on common law at the Lowell Institute in Boston,… Read More