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The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Beginnings & Its Justices 1790-1991
by Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution [Warren Burger]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
[Washington?]: Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Square small quarto, 300pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, with the inner hinges just starting, but holding. Top edge very faintly foxed. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger on his embossed presentation card, which is tipped onto the front paste-down. The name is a bit difficult to read, but it is most likely Roswell Perkins, who was President of the American Law Institute at the time of publication; certainly someone to whom Burger was likely to have presented this book. Burger had retired as Chief Justice several years before publication, but was the Chairman of the committee that organized and published this book. An appealing copy.
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- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11170
- Title
- The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Beginnings & Its Justices 1790-1991
- Author
- Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution [Warren Burger]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution
- Place of Publication
- [Washington?]
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Legal history, American history, Supreme Court, American politics, Autographs, Signed books
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Cleveland Book Company
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Cleveland Book Company
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Rocky River, Ohio
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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- Foxed
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- Quarto
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- Fine
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