Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas by Jewel Preston Lightfoot - 1907

American Bar Association, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Half-Leather. First Edition, Limited and Numbered. Fine but for prev. owner name ( 1926 ), traces of wear to extremities, and slightest fading to spine. This is copy #160 of 250. Spine is gilt stamped with 5 raised bands. A very attractive copy. Large, overweight volume will require extra postage..

Woodbridge: Boydell Press 978-1-84383-216-4 [978-1-84383-216-4] 2006. (Hardcover) 242pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Map, notes, tables, bibliography, index. The corners are lightly bumped and there is a faint blue smudge on the spine. Time Period Medieval. Publisher series: Gender in the Middle Ages 2. Locale: England; Kent--England. (Law, Gender Issues, Law, Petty Crime).

New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. [10], 95 p.; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. White dust jacket printed in blue with portrait of the author on the front section. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with added inscription noting that he died in January, 1978. The author's obituary from the Evening Bulletin is taped to the front fixed endpaper. With 2 pieces of photocopied correspondence from John B. Hannum to Margaret Hileman, daughter of Leo H. McKay, thanking her for the gift of this book (one taped to the half title page, the other loose). John B. Hannum (1915-2007) was a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1991. Leo H. McKay was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County, Pa., from 1954 to 1968. In this book, he discusses 12 trials of particular interest during his time on that bench. Scarce. Book is in Very Good Condition: provenance-related items described above; underlining in… Read More

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

Micah Clarke. RARE. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Harper & Brothers First American Edition, Copyright 1894. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. A square, solid copy. Bright pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial cloth, engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Gilted front cover and spine ornamentation are still in nice shape. Former owner signature on front free endpaper dates our copy of this book to 1894. Set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 in England, Micah Clarke is a a bildungsroman (coming of age story) whose protagonist, Micah Clarke, begins as a boy seeking adventure in a rather romantic and naive way, falls under the influence of an older and vastly experienced, world-weary soldier of fortune. A story of disillusionment with religious extremism. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective fiction series. 5 X 7 ½ 471 pages.

Cape Town & Johannesburg, Juta, 1945. Hardcover. .. Royal octavo. Pp. lviii, 533. table of cases, appendix, index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's cloth, spine gilt; corners bit bumped, endpapers lightly browned, old signature to first free endpaper. In a very good condition. ~ Second edition. Professor George Wille (1880-1965), read for his B.A.LLB. at Cambridge. Returning to South Africa in 1903, he was a member of the Transvaal Bar for 18 years, where he practiced as an advocate. He became the first full-time professor of law at University of Cape Town in 1920, holding the chair until 1945, and lecturing chiefly on Roman-Dutch law. Many judges in South Africa and Rhodesia studied under him. Wille was one of the best-known legal writers in South Africa. He was known for his liberal outlook and for his support of equal legal rights to South Africa's underprivileged classes. 006-3

Harrisburg: Pennsylvania General Assembly, 1849. Paperback. Very Good. 15, [1] p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "5" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Light marginal pencil marks throughout. No date of publication. Information in the publication goes up to 1848; the State Library of Pennsylvania gives 1849 as the year of publication. Lawyer and judge Garrick Mallery (1784-1866) served in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1827 to 1830. He was the father of Garrick Mallery (1831-1894), an ethnologist who specialized in Native American sign language. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; first leaf and last leaf detached but present; light marginal pencil marks; otherwise, clean and tight.

Philadelphia: s.n., 1847. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "22" in ink at upper right-hand corner of first page. Caption title. At head of title: "Supreme Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. July 1847, No. 40." William M. Kennedy claimed that his property running from Maiden St. to the adjacent wharf in the Kensington District of the Northern Liberties (at the time not part of the city of Philadelphia) included half of the street and the wharf itself. Elihu Duplessis Tarr (d. 1851) and John Meredith Read (1797-1874) represented Samuel Tucker Bodine (1810-1879) and the commissioners and residents of Kensington, offering the history of the property back to the orignal 1689 grant to Michael Neilson and through its ownership by William Masters and his descendants to show that both the street and the wharf had been public property. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; light foxing, primarily on first… Read More

Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington 1917, Revised. (4to) 475pp. Very good plus, no dust jacket. A photographic reproduction of Simon's Edition of 1696. Notes, gloss, index. Previous owner names on the front endpapers. Time Period 1696. Edited by Ernest Nys. Preface by James Brown Scott. Translated by John Pawley Bate. Text in English Language, French Language & Latin Language. (Law, Law).

Woodbridge: Boydell Press 978-1-84383-216-4 [978-1-84383-216-4] 2006. (Hardcover) 242pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Map, notes, tables, bibliography, index. The corners are lightly bumped and there is a faint blue smudge on the spine. Time Period Medieval. Publisher series: Gender in the Middle Ages 2. Locale: England; Kent--England. (Law, Gender Issues, Law, Petty Crime).