Tales of a Grandfather in the Law by Luctor

(Durban: Knox, [1948]). 8vo; original red cloth; no dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 300. Boards a little bowed; pronounced foxing to endpapers and prelims., sporadic moderate foxing elsewhere. Good condition. "In so far as it purports to be a record of interviews with clients, it may be censured by the professional man and from the layman meet with some disapproval. Those judgments will proceed upon the assumption that the relationship of solicitor and client is tantamount, in respect of professional confidence, to that of a penitent and his spiritual director. …Yet there must be few men who have practised the law for over half-a-century who have not on their shelves files of papers that contain the elements of some human story that the world would wish to hear - and would be the better for hearing. The problem in such cases is how to present the story without violating professional confidence." .