Crime & Law from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1957. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xii, 330pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faintest of binding wear, though tight and internally fine. Tight and nice first edition of the first volume of a highly-regarded biography by Holmes' former secretary (second volume not published until 1963). This intriguing comes from the… Read more about this item

San Antonio: The University Press, Inc, 1931. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with black lettering and pictorial stamping. 168pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Fainting binding edgewear, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive third printing of this account of the legendary Old West saloon keeper and justice of the peace (c. 1825-1903).

London: Third Millennium Publishing, 2015. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Extensive color illustrations. Fine/fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and pristine second edition of this superbly-illustrated study of the landmark British document and its significance.

Amsterdam: Apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge, 1674. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full calf with gilt spine lettering and rules, compartments, inner dentelles. (20pp), 360pp, (58pp index), 328pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, numerous engravings and woodcuts (some full page), head- and tailpieces, marbled endpapers, sewn-in green satin page marker. Very good. Binding gently edgeworn and a tad rubbed, with spine rather… Read more about this item

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 212pp. Fine/fine. Laid in is the business card of a trial lawyer whose circular blind-embossed ownership name appears on a front and rear inner flyleaf. Pristine first edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Hardcover. Small 4to. Terra cotta cloth with blue spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. viii, 280pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear, with spine lightly sunned; front pastedown ownership signature; three small neat inked margin notes. A tight, nice first edition. Review slip laid in.

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. xiii, 283pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine sunned. Tight and sharp first edition of this study "of what can be done to improve the way of both business and government and their relationships with each other" -- boldly inscribed and signed in… Read more about this item

New York: BasicBooks, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 274pp. Fine/fine. Pristine, bright and tight first edition of the expose that established and popularized the phrase "junk science," handsomely inscribed and signed in blue fineline on front flyleaf: "To Bob Malott / With great appreciation… Read more about this item

St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green leatherette with gilt lettering and rules. x, 304pp. Very good. Binding faintly edgeworn only; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on rear flyleaf; a dozen or less pages with inked underlining and margin squiggles. A tight and nice first edition of this memoir and essays by a notable long-time UCLA… Read more about this item

London: Luke Hansard and Sons, 1818. Hardcover. Three volume set (out of four). 4to. Quarter brown calf with gilt spine lettering and compartments and marbled paper over boards. ix, 339pp; vii, 491pp; x, 512pp. Good overall. Rather rough and edgeworn, with front hinge of Volume IV (only) repaired and delicate; front and rear preliminary leaves on all heavily foxed… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xiv, 300pp, xiv. 4 maps. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn only. Tight, attractive later (15th) printing of this uncommon 1952 study, described on front jacket panel "A chapter in American lawlessness" and "A shocking and hair-raising story of unparalleled violence… Read more about this item

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale green cloth with blue spine lettering and pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 197pp. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight and bright first edition of this slim account of the infamous 19th century bandit (1806-44) -- and this sharp copy handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in black ballpoint on front… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red buckram with gilt lettering and decoration. 377pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faintest of binding wear; front inner hinge starting but neatly and archivally mended, thus tight. Attractive first edition of this survey.

N.p.: The Legal Studies Forum, 2011. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue wrappers. 6pp. Very good. Offprint of this article by the New York attorney from Volume XXXV, No. 1 of this scholarly journal published by the American Legal Studies Association. Interesting association copy, hailing from the collection of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois, who pens a… Read more about this item

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2003. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xvii, 313pp. Fine. Pristine first edition, with choice and huge presentation inscription from the author in black fineline on half-title page: "For Senator / Adlai Stevenson / with admiration / & appreciation for / all you've given to / our country! / Warmly -- / Paul / Lisnek… Read more about this item

Springfield: Brown, Hay and Stephens, 1928. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan buckram with paper label. 53pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Faint binding wear, else tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this history of the law firm that published it, descended in a convoluted way from Abraham Lincoln's law firm. Thusly: Stuart and Lincoln (1837-41) evolved into Stuart, Edwards… Read more about this item

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. Introduction by Edward Mead Earle. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xlv, 622pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faintest of mild jacket edgewear; small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and attractive later printing of #139 -- first published in 1941, here undated but likely mid-… Read more about this item

N.p.: Counsel Press, n.y.. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff red wrappers. xii, 54pp. Near fine. Rear wrappers and last leaf (only) mildly warped. Bright, tight copy of this legal pamphlet (No. 12-872), part of an age discrimination suit filed by an Illinois state's attorney who argued he was dismissed because of his age (61) to make room for a younger,… Read more about this item

Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1977. Hardcover. Edited by Gene M. Gressley. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 552pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Jacket spine typically sunned. Sharp and tight first edition of this generous selection of correspondence of this widely influential figure (1891-1969) -- front jacket flap describes him as "The insecure college… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, 1947. Hardcover. Introduction by Roscoe Pound. 8vo. Grey cloth with burgundy lettering. xiv, 498pp. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn, showing "flecking" to cloth. Just a reprint edition of this broad-based anthology that features fiction and non-fiction jurisprudence-based excerpts ranging from Herman Melville, Anton Chekhov, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Wolfe, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain and others on… Read more about this item