Burnside Rare Books

The Pure Theory of Law

Kelsen, Hans; Max Knight [Translator]

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

First American edition, first printing. x, 356 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright clean dust jacket with a tiny dimple in the front gutter. A lovely copy of the rare first appearance in English of a very influential work of modernist legal theory. It was first published in the original German in 1934 as Reine Rechtslehre. Item #140947039

Price: $500