[Rarebooks] fs-First Amendment [II]

[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.  MILTON, John.  Areopagitica, A Speech of Mr. John Milton for
the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England.
The Grolier Club, New-York, 1890.  Blue boards, spine sunned and
chipped, front joint cracked; sound. [59138 L54EL70EL72E]
                                                         $ 125.00

Milton's classic, even transcendant, advocacy of freedom of the
press and the right to publish without prior restraint; with a
substantial introduction by James Russell Lowell, this edition
limited to 325 copies on Holland paper.

2.  PESTANA, Carla Gardina.  Liberty of Conscience and the Growth
of Religious Diversity in Early America, 1636-1786.  The John
Carter Brown Library, Providence, 1986.  Printed stapled wraps; 49
pages. [64764 FBW]                                        $ 20.00

A more modest, abridged version of the catalogue immediately above,
issued on the occasion of the exhibition mounted for the May, 1986
meeting of the Associates of the Library; 75 items,
cross-referenced as appropriate to the larger catalogue.

3.  REMBAR, Charles.  The End of Obscenity, The Trials of Lady
Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill. Second Printing.
Random House, New York, 1968.  A very good copy, in a somewhat worn
dustjacket. [66121 L67]                                   $ 45.00

The "personal account of a revolution", namely Rembar's exposition
of the three major obscenity trials in which he was chief defense
counsel, with significant portions of the trial transcripts and
briefs reproduced.

4.  SCHROEDER, Theodore.  "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional
Law, A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press.  Privately
Printed, for Forensic Uses, New York, 1911.  Original cloth,
definitely worn, but usable. [55740 L29L41L54EL74E]      $ 125.00

The work which has been called the magnum opus of Schroeder,
founder of the Free Speech League and the "maverick radical [and
lawyer, who] ventured further than any of his contemporaries in
exploring the meaning of . . . freedom of expression".

5.  SCHROEDER, Theodore.  "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional
Law, A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press.  Da Capo Press,
New York, 1972.  Original cloth, showing wear; a usable copy.
[58281 L41EL54L74E]                                       $ 45.00

The facsimile reissue of the 1911 edition, with a new and
substantial introduction by Jerold S. Auerbach, who quotes with
approval the description of Schroeder as "probably the most
prolific champion of free speech and press in American history".

6.  SCHROEDER, Theodore.  "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional
Law, A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press.  Privately
Printed, for Forensic Uses, New York, 1911.  Original green cloth,
worn and taped, yet usable. [68606 L74]                  $ 150.00

Leonard Levy's copy of the magnum opus of Schroeder, who "ventured
further than any of his contemporaries in exploring the meaning of
. . . freedom of expression"; with Professor Levy's ownership
signature ("Leonard W. Levy") on the front blank.

7.  [SEARCH AND SEIZURE AND GENERAL WARRANTS].  Considerations On
the Legality of General Warrants, and The Propriety of a
Parliamentary Regulation of the same.  To which is added, a
Postscript on a late Pamphlet concerning Juries, Libels &c. The
Second Edition with Additions. McCoy C512.  Printed for W. Nicoll
. . . in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1765.  Modern calf, the
title and last leaf dusty, else a good copy. [70880 BLS1006L78]
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                                                         $ 750.00

An important part of the literature resulting in the dramatic
extension of the rights of personal liberty in England, with their
essence (that no warrants should issue except upon probable cause)
embodied in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

8.  SHIFFRIN, Steven H.  The First Amendment, Democracy, and
Romance.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990.  A very good
copy, in the dustjacket. [64417]                          $ 35.00

A work which Lawrence Tribe described as "a lucid and original
contribution to the literature of free speech", proposing that
Emersonian ideals are theoretically fundamental to the first
amendment.

9.  SMITH, Jeffrey A.  Printers and Press Freedom, The Ideology of
Early American Journalism.  Oxford University Press, New York,
1988.  [41024 L25L51]                                     $ 35.00

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