General Theory of Law and State. 20th Century Legal Philosophy Series: Vol. I.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1945.
First edition, first printing. Association copy from the library of Hans Morgenthau, his card laid in. xxxiii, [1], 516 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and dulling to spine gilt, light soiling to upper textblock edge. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and appreciable wear including two small holes to rear flap fold and 1.75" split and evidence of label removal to spine panel.
A treatise on jurisprudence by the eminent Austrian-American legal theorist Hans Kelsen, who wrote the text in German while teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. It was translated by the Swedish philosopher Anders Wedberg, who had studied at Harvard. Kelsen was a good friend of his fellow jurist and political refugee Hans Morgenthau. He had promoted the younger man's career before the two arrived in the United States, and Morgenthau dedicated his 1970 book Truth and Power to Kelsen.
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