What is Justice? Justice, Law, and Politics in the Mirror of Science
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957.
First edition, first printing. [viii], 397 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth lettered in black on spine. Near Fine with sunning to spine and extremities, fraying at head and tail, and two tiny ink marks to front and rear boards. Toning and several specks of paint to textblock edges and dust jacket front panel, some underlining in pencil. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket, moderate wear, several archival tissue repairs to verso.
A collection of essays by the eminent Austrian-American jurist Hans Kelsen, predating the English translation of his Pure Theory of Law, which made waves when it was published in German in 1934.
Price: $550