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Human Rights: Comments and Interpretations, a Symposium Edited by UNESCO

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NY: Columbia University Press. Good in Fair dust jacket; Musty, pages toned and first 20 pages rippled along top edge, corners bumped, jacket heavily toned and chipped.. 1949. First American Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Jacques Maritain. Black blindstamped cloth. Contributions by Mahatma Gandhi, Aldous Huxley, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, John Somerville, Boris Tchechko, Chung-Shu Lo, Benedetto Croce, Harold Laski, Don Salvador de Madariaga, John Lewis, Margery Fry, and many others. Short biographies of contributors at rear. Results of global study of human rights sponsored by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which provided basis for the landmark UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. No other copies offered for sale in the trade at present. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages .
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  • Date Published 1949
  • Keywords HUMAN Rights, UNESCO, UNITED Nations, INTERNATIONAL Law
History of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia  Circuit in the...

History of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the Country’s Bicentennial Year

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Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by former NY Senator James L. Buckley, who was appointed to the Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan in 1985. Blue cloth. vii, 142pp. Acknowledgements, member listing, and black and white photographs. A synopsis of the Court's activity including its work on the issues of wartime law, administrative law, the Pentagon papers, and Watergate. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Index to the North Carolina Supreme Court Reports, Vols. 200 through 245. (FOUR VOLUME SET). Vol....
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Index to the North Carolina Supreme Court Reports, Vols. 200 through 245. (FOUR VOLUME SET). Vol. I: Titles, Abandonment of Property throiugh Criminal Law; Vol. II: Titles Curtsy through Judges; Vol. III: Titles Judgments through Quieting Title; Vol. IV: Titles, Railroads through Words and Phrases

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Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton Co., 1957. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Octavos. Variously paginated. FOUR VOLUME SET dated from 1957 to 1961. Hardcovers bound in tan buckram with spine titles on black fields. Moderate wear to the bindings, which have some smudge marks on the spines and covers. A sound set. Each volume comes with a thick paperback Supplement inserted at the rear (bound with this in mind; the binding allows for the inserts which are about 200 pages a piece). Volume I bears the imprint date of 1957. Volume II is 1959. Volume III is 1960. And Volume IV is 1961. The Index is for Volumes 200 to 254. The Index is only 4 volumes itself. Scarce.
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The Trials of a Trial Judge [provenance: John B. Hannum]
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The Trials of a Trial Judge [provenance: John B. Hannum]

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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
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Appellate Procedure in Civil Cases

Appellate Procedure in Civil Cases

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine faded, owner bookplate on front free . endpaper.. 1941. Later Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth. xi, 431pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. A solid copy of this volume in the National Conference of Judicial Council's The Judicial Administration Series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas
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Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas

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[Texas][Law] Jewel Preston Lightfoot. Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas, with compilation of leading cases of state and federal courts. [Austin, Texas]: Attorney General. 1907. Flexible red leatherette with gilt titles. 23 cm. 75 pp. Interleaved with blank pages for notes. LOC surplus copy with stamp on front free end paper. Light wear to spine, else very good.
OCLC shows five holdings (Hou. Pub. Lib.; Texas St. Lib. & Arch.; Texas Tech.; UT-Austin [2]). Lightfoot was Attorney General of Texas; general counsel for Wilson and Company, Chicago meat packers and then was partner in the Ft. Worth firm Lightfoot, Robertson, Saunders, and Gano. He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and is buried in the State Cemetery in Austin.
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History of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia  Circuit in the...

History of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the Country’s Bicentennial Year

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Washington, D. C.: U. S. Government Printing Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1977. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by former NY Senator James L. Buckley, who was appointed to the Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan in 1985. Blue cloth. vii, 142pp. Acknowledgements, member listing, and black and white photographs. A synopsis of the Court's activity including its work on the issues of wartime law, administrative law, the Pentagon papers, and Watergate. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Index to the North Carolina Supreme Court Reports, Vols. 200 through 245. (FOUR VOLUME SET). Vol....
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Index to the North Carolina Supreme Court Reports, Vols. 200 through 245. (FOUR VOLUME SET). Vol. I: Titles, Abandonment of Property throiugh Criminal Law; Vol. II: Titles Curtsy through Judges; Vol. III: Titles Judgments through Quieting Title; Vol. IV: Titles, Railroads through Words and Phrases

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Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton Co., 1957. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Octavos. Variously paginated. FOUR VOLUME SET dated from 1957 to 1961. Hardcovers bound in tan buckram with spine titles on black fields. Moderate wear to the bindings, which have some smudge marks on the spines and covers. A sound set. Each volume comes with a thick paperback Supplement inserted at the rear (bound with this in mind; the binding allows for the inserts which are about 200 pages a piece). Volume I bears the imprint date of 1957. Volume II is 1959. Volume III is 1960. And Volume IV is 1961. The Index is for Volumes 200 to 254. The Index is only 4 volumes itself. Scarce.
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The Trials of a Trial Judge [provenance: John B. Hannum]
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The Trials of a Trial Judge [provenance: John B. Hannum]

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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
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Appellate Procedure in Civil Cases

Appellate Procedure in Civil Cases

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine faded, owner bookplate on front free . endpaper.. 1941. Later Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth. xi, 431pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. A solid copy of this volume in the National Conference of Judicial Council's The Judicial Administration Series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas
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Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas

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[Texas][Law] Jewel Preston Lightfoot. Anti-trust laws of the State of Texas, with compilation of leading cases of state and federal courts. [Austin, Texas]: Attorney General. 1907. Flexible red leatherette with gilt titles. 23 cm. 75 pp. Interleaved with blank pages for notes. LOC surplus copy with stamp on front free end paper. Light wear to spine, else very good.
OCLC shows five holdings (Hou. Pub. Lib.; Texas St. Lib. & Arch.; Texas Tech.; UT-Austin [2]). Lightfoot was Attorney General of Texas; general counsel for Wilson and Company, Chicago meat packers and then was partner in the Ft. Worth firm Lightfoot, Robertson, Saunders, and Gano. He was a Mason and a member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and is buried in the State Cemetery in Austin.
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Samuel The Seeker
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Samuel The Seeker

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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Shoot to Kill?

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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945

Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945

by Christie, Agatha

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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection)

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Three Blind Mice (Agatha Christie Mystery Collection) (aka The Mousetrap). Black faux leather binding. First Edition Thus Bantam Books Inc., NY, September, 1988. Number line: 0987654321. As New. Summary: "A blinding snowstorm—and a homicidal maniac—traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate." THE MOUSETRAP: Known as the "world's longest-running play," The Moustrap has been running since 1952 and celebrated 70 years in London in 2022."
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The Man In The Brown Suit
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The Man In The Brown Suit

by Christie, Agatha

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703 ChristieBrownSuit The Man In The Brown Suit. By Agatha Christie. Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1958, Stated Fourth Impression Thus,1970. ISBN 0370006720. Please see our stock photos. EXLIB. Good Condition/Good Original Shakel & Ryder Dust Jacket with Yellow spine, black titling, woman and ship cover art. Protected in mylar wrap. "States new and redesigned Edition, Fourth Impression, 80p. Blue boards with black titling. Our book spine has skinned spot at the word "brown" from removal of scotch tape. Plot Summary: Who is he, the man in the brown suit? He says he is a doctor; but Anne Beddingfield, who witnesses the fatal accident at a London tube station, is quick to notice some curious features about him when he comes to the scene. Her investigation of the accident leads her into the thick of mystery. This novel is more than an ingenious puzzle: It is a gripping suspense story."
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Dead-Eye Dick

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Vonnegut, Kurt. Dead-Eye Dick. 1982, DELACORTE PRESS/SEYMOUR LAWRENCE . FIRST EDITION. Used. VG/G+ Condition. Back DJ photo of author taken by Jill Krementz. Plot Summary: "Deadeye Dick is a tragic tale of "gun nuts and nukes," Vonnegut tells Miller Rudy Waltz, the protagonist, while playing around as a child in his father's upstairs gun room, fires off a round from a high-powered rifle and accidentally kills a pregnant woman as she vacuums her apartment several blocks away."
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Vonnegut, Kurt. Jailbird. 1979. Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence. First Edition. Used. Good+ Unclipped DJ. Back cover author photo. 245 pages, Indexed. Plot summary: "This thematically and narratively complex book tells the life story of Walter Starbuck, ex-socialist, ex-capitalist, and ex-con. Moving fluidly back and forth between past and present, incident and insight, irony and irony, the novel explores themes relating to the tension between capitalism and communism, layers of meaning inherent in layers of identity, fact, and fiction, and the inter-connectedness of all things."
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Histoire du Procès de la France par Auguste Johanet
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Paris: Aux Bureaux du Journal La France, 1841. Very Good -. 48 p.; 20 cm. Disbound. Auguste Johanet (1806-1860) was a French lawyer and historian. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: half title detached but present; clean and solid.
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