[Rarebooks] fs-First Amendment [I]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on the First
Amendment and related subjects; for others, please feel free to
browse our web site, where you may search our entire inventory by
any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  DAVIS, Derek.  The Perspective of William H. Rehnquist on the
First Amendment Religion Clauses in the Light of the Original
Intent of the Framers.  Privately Printed, Waco, 1988.  Original
green buckram, gilt, double-spaced typescript, photocopied on the
rectos only, oversized, well-preserved; one copy only in OCLC.
[70517 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70517     $ 150.00

Mr Davis' Master's Thesis at Baylor, forming the basis for his 1991
work "Original Intent, Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of
American/Church State Relations", and leading to his association
with Baylor's Institute of Church-State Studies.

2.  [FATHER OF CANDOR].  A Letter Concerning Libels, Warrants, and
the Seizure of Papers [etc.]. Third Edition [bound with] A Letter
>From Candor, to the Public Advertiser: Containing a Series of
Constitutional Remarks on . . . Trials and . . . Civil Liberty.
Second Edition.  Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington House in
Piccadilly, London, 1765 & 1764.  Contemporary marbled boards,
rebacked, worn but decently preserved. [44660 XYL25EL44EL68EL71]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44660
                                                         $ 450.00

One of the most famous polemics in the long struggle for freedom
the press, emphasizing the distinction between words and acts, and
anticipating Erskine's defense of Thomas Paine.

4.  [FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT AND MARIO SAVIO].  People of the State of
California versus Mario Savio and 571 others; On appeal from the
Municipal Court Berkeley-Albany Judicial District Honorable Rupert
Crittenden, Judge.  Brekas Typesetting, Inc., Berkeley, 1966.
Original sewn printed wraps, worn but sound; 445 pages. [13796
L12L41E]                                                 $ 200.00

5.  [FREEDOM OF THE PRESS].  El Nuevo Derecho de Prensa e Imprenta.
Imprenta del Servicio de Publicaciones del M.I.T., Madrid, 1966.
Printed, sewn wraps, a bit worn, but sound; 224 pages. [58530 L47]
                                                          $ 45.00

6.  HOWARD, A.E. Dick.  Toward the Open Society in Central and
Eastern Europe.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1995.
Printed wraps; 71 pages. [30471]                          $ 45.00

Reprinted from the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 16.

7.  KALVEN, JR., Harry.  A Worthy Tradition, Freedom of Speech in
America.  Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1988.  A very good
copy, in the dustjacket. [66849 L70]                      $ 35.00

8.  LAWSON, Linda.  Truth in Publishing, Federal Regulation of the
Press's Business Practices, 1880-1920.  Southern Illinois
University Press, Carbondale, 1993.  [55442]              $ 29.95

9.  [MILTON, JOHN].  [George Walker].  Substance of the Speech of
the Rev. Mr. Walker . . . to Which is Added Mr. Thomson's Preface
to a Speech of Mr. John Milton, for the Liberty of Unlicensed
Printing, to the Parliament of England. First Published in the Year
1644. McCoy T101.  Printed . . . By the Society for Constitutional
Information, [London], 1780.  Modern 1/4 black morocco, the edges
cut close, else a fresh copy. [59257 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59257     $ 450.00

The proposals for Parliamentary reform delivered by Walker,
polymath associate of Newton and John Millar whose forensic
abilities were compared with Cicero's, coupled with James Thomson's
famed preface to Milton's masterwork first published in 1738.

10.  MILTON, John.  Areopagitica, A Speech of Mr. John Milton for
the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.
Deighton, Bell and Company, Cambridge, 1973.  Original black
buckram, gilt, well-preserved; one of 400 copies. [67780 YL72]
                                                         $ 250.00

Quite a lovely, modern private press printing of Milton's classic,
even transcendant, advocacy of freedom of the press and the right
to publish without prior restraint; printed on mould-made paper,
and designed by Sebastian Carter.
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