St. Paul, Minn. West Publishing Co., 1891. First edition. Very Good in original tan leather binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped alphabet border and rule to boards. Previous owner name in gilt on leather label on spine. Scuffing to edges of red title label. Leather shows... More about A Dictionary of Law (Black's Law Dictionary
St. Paul, Minn. West Publishing Co., 1891. First edition. In publisher's tan leather binding with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, blindstamped alphabet and rule to boards. Very Good. Moderate wear and light staining to leather, with a patch of darkening at the base of the spine. Endsheets offset... More about A Dictionary of Law (Black's Law Dictionary
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 about Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Laid-in signed card sent to the author wherein he wrote, "Here is my signature. I'm afraid I never send photographs. [signed] Ronald Coase." German bookseller typed information around signature on card. First edition. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with tiny ding near spine panel... More about The Firm, the Market, and the Law
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 about Felix Frankfurter Reminisces
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1881. First edition, first issue with printer's imprint at base of copyright page and at the final page of text. Very Good, with light rubbing to cloth, spine slightly darkened and with a lean, top corner bumped, previous owner bookplate and law publisher's rubber stamp... More about The Common Law
Washington: Cornelius Wendell, Printer, 1857. First edition. 239 pp. Original pale blue wraps over string binding. Very Good with fragile front and rear wraps present, rear wrap detached, name written on front wrap, chipping along edges of wraps, wear to bottom corner of prelims, offsetting to contents. An uncommon document... More about Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Opinions of the Judges...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition. Warmly inscribed by author to former owner on front free endpaper in the year of publication. xiv, [2], 485 pp. Original gray cloth with black spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a few tiny tears and creasing along top... More about The Problems of Jurisprudence
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. First British edition, first printing. 607 p. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Clean, bright pages and sturdy binding. Jacket chipped at extremities, tear near head, some ink dots and tape on verso, but spine panel unfaded, price intact. A.... More about A Theory of Justice
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 about A Dissertation on Servitude: Embracing an Examination of the Scripture Doctrines on the Subject,...
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1976. First American edition. 105 pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with a little sunning to spine, two tiny closed tears, light rubbing. Uncommon. The first English language edition of one of the famous German... More about The Concept of the Political