London: Printed for J. Almon, 1767. First English-language edition of Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria's treatise on criminal justice reform, with an added commentary by Voltaire. xii, 179, lxxix pp. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, laced in boards. Morocco title label, gilt tooling to spine and board edges, all edges..... More
New York: Mother Earth Publishing Assocation, 1917. First edition. 87, [9; ads] pp., with 2 portraits of Berkman and Goldman. Bound in publisher's light brown printed wraps. Near Fine with shallow chipping to spine eds, light foxing to wraps, faint creasing to top corner of cover and contents and oxidation..... More
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell and J. Butterworth and Son, 1825. Sixteenth edition. In four volumes. Leather, matching early rebacking with red and black labels on spines, lettered in gilt, dated at foot. Frontispiece portrait of author by Gainsborough in Vol. I, fold-out tables of Consanguinity and Descents in..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition, first printing. Signed by Justice Brennan on the half-title and inscribed: "To J. Owen Grundy, City Historian of Jersey City, with cordial personal regards. 1/13/76." TLS from Brennan to Grundy tipped to back free endpaper. xv, [1], 384, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's dark..... More
Philadelphia: P. Byrne, 1803. First American edition, first printing. [x], 290 pp. Bound in contemporary calf with morocco title label "Chitty on Bills" on spine. Good only, boards bowed, stained, and well-worn; hinges cracked but cords holding. Contents heavily foxed and toned with age. Stamp on top edge. The uncommon..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1950. First edition. Signed by William O. Douglas on the half title in blue ink, inscribed to former owner and dated July 18, 1950. xiv, 338 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering, map endpapers. Light stain to rear board from..... More
New York: Reynal & Company, 1960. Warmly inscribed by Frankfurter to lawyer Peter Ehrenhaft, senior law clerk to U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren at the time, "a transplanted Wiener kind with the good wishes of another," signed and dated March 20, 1962. First edition, first printing. ix, 310 pp. Original..... More
New York: Wynwood Press, 1989. First edition. Signed by John Grisham on the half title, inscribed to former owner and dated March 5, 1994. 415 pp. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards with crimson cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, light shelf wear, in a Very Good+ dust..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973. First edition, first printing, American issue. Signed by Friedrich A. Hayek on the title page; from the collection of Portland lawyer Ridgway Foley with his bookplate on paste down. xii, 184 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on periwinkle blocking..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1973, 1976, 1979. First American editions, first printings of each volume. xii, 184; xiv, 195; xvi, 244 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering on spine blocked in periwinkle. Near Fine with very light soiling to covers, toning to Volume 1 endpapers..... More
Konigsberg: Friedrich Nicolovius, 1797. First edition. Two volumes in one. In the original German. [iv], 235, [1, Berbefferungen]; [ii], 190, [2, Berbefferungen] pp. Bound in contemporary marbled boards with leather title label lettered in gilt, difficult to read now. Very Good, well-worn along edges (especially at foot)with boards exposed, hinges..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
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 Fine unclipped dust jacket. A sharp copy of the rare first appearance in English of a very influential work of modernist legal theory. It..... More
New York: O. Halsted, 1826-1830. First edition. Volumes 1-4, complete. Bound in period calf with two partial binder's unprinted cloth dust jackets. A few jacket remnants to paste downs of all volumes. Jackets from this era are extremely uncommon in any condition; these are remarkable survivals despite their very rough..... More
Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1615. First edition of this important French legal treatise. Octavo in duodecimo format, laid paper, a4 A-Q8 R4. [viii], 263, [1] pp. with errata page at rear and the following pagination errors: p. 116 misnumbered as 114, p. 121 misnumbered as 122. Bound in contemporary limp vellum..... More
Sandy, OR: Self Published, 1989. Analysis of the environmental dispute known as the Battle of Bull Run, by one of its top generals. First edition. [ii], 59 pp. Very Good with light wear, toning, cup ring and a little dampstaining to wraps; contents overall clean. Scarce in commerce, with only..... More
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. First edition. xv, [1], 607 pp. Original purple cloth with green lettering. Very Good with faintly stained fore edge, former owner's name on front free endpaper. A few stains to contents, heaviest to pp. 17 and 18. In an unclipped..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. First British edition, first printing. xv, [1], 607 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light reading wear, small black mark to bottom edges, in a Very Good dust jacket, light wear to laminate at edges, a few small tears..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. First British edition, first printing. xv, [1], 607 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. A few dog-eared pages, else Fine in a lightly worn and rubbed dust jacket, small tear to back panel, price-clipped, Very Good+ A modern classic of political philosophy..... More
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. First edition, first printing, paperback issue. xv, [1], 607 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with rubbing along edges, light foxing to edges. With old price marked on verso of rear wrap, contents otherwise free of markings. Rawls' magnum..... More
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1973. Signed by John Rawls on title page in black ink. xvi, 607 pp. Bound in contemporary plain red cloth with gilt spine lettering by the Peoria Book Bindery, unrelated illustration bound at front. Sixth printing of the first edition. Good..... More
New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1837. First edition. 108pp. Publisher's cloth spine and printed paper boards. Very Good overall with strip of wear along bottom edge of front cover, spine cloth worn and split but binding holding, boards rubbed and a bit soiled, ffep clipped along top edge, pages 55-58..... More
St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008. Fourth printing of the first edition. Signed by Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia on the half title page. xxiv, 245 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in black and gilt. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A practical guide on effective legal reasoning..... More