[Rarebooks] fs-Jurisprudence [IV]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on jurisprudence 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: 
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1.  MAC VEAGH, Wayne.  Law and Democracy, An Address Delivered
before the Graduating Classes . . . of the Yale Law School.  The
Law Department of Yale College, New Haven, 1886.  Printed wraps,
well preserved; 33 pages. [56317 L42]                     $ 50.00

2.  [POUND AND LLEWELLYN].  Roscoe Pound.  Interpretations of
Legal History. Setaro 118.  The Macmillan Company, New York, 1923. Original 
crimson cloth, gilt, somewhat worn and faded, a bit
strained, but a good copy; with a number of annotations, possibly
Llewellyn's. [70506 L77] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70506     $ 850.00

Presentation copy of Pound's "masterly panoramic" (in Holmes'
words) "From / K N Llewellyn / Columbia Law School 1930 / to Sterry
Waterman / with affection as deep as is my / admiration 1960" and
"With every good wish / Roscoe Pound / 1961".

3.  POUND, Roscoe.  The Formative Era of American Law. Second
Printing.  Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1939.  Original red
cloth, gilt, rubbed and somewhat spotted; sound. [69454 L78]
                                                          $ 250.00

Dean Pound's 1936 lectures delivered at Tulane Law School upon the
centennial of the death of Edward Livingston, inscribed and dated
by Dean Pound on the front blank, entirely in his hand, "Roscoe
Pound / January 25, 1939".

4.  POUND, Roscoe.  Jurisprudence. Five Volumes. Strait 44.  West
Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1959.  Original brown buckram, gilt, an
exceptionally nice set. [68794 L74L76E]                  $ 650.00

Pound's magnum opus and his great summing up, praised by Karl
Llewellyn as "always learned", conceived as far back as 1893 and
written over many decades, and going "everywhere with him . . .
almost as though he had kept an intellectual diary".

5.  ROSCOE, William.  Additional Observations on Penal
Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of Criminals [etc.] [with]
Observations on Penal Jurisprudence, and the Reformation of
Criminals: Part III [etc.].  Printed for T. Cadell [etc.] [imprint
varies], London, 1823 & 1825.  Original paper-backed boards,
rubbed, one spine defective; clean. [68653 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68653     $ 750.00

Presentation copies [to Gulian C. Verplanck of New York] of two of
Roscoe's substantial and especially perceptive critiques of the
American prison system ("our most formidable opponent"), each in an
appealing, completely unsophisticated binding.

6.  RUBENSTEIN, I.H.  A Treatise on Contemporary Religious
Jurisprudence.  The Waldain Press, Chicago, 1948.  Original gray
cloth, somewhat stained and faded, but sound. [62577 FBW]
                                                          $ 125.00

A thoroughly considered, if polemical, examination of fortune
telling, faith healing, and pacifism, civil, criminal and
constitutional, each of the three subjects separately considered,
unified in the author's estimation by their adherents' zealotry.

7.  STORY, Joseph.  Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence, as
Administered in England and America. Thirteenth Edition. Two
Volumes.  Fred B. Rothman & Co., Littleton, 1988.  Original maroon
cloth, gilt, as new. [72068]                             $ 150.00

The facsimile reissue of the last edition, undertaken by Melville
Bigelow, carefully based on Story's own last edition of 1846,
restoring Story's text and adding Bigelow's own commentary (often
substantial) separately.

8.  [TAYLOR, Hannis].  A Paper Read by Mr. Hannis Taylor, of
Mobile, at the Third Annual Meeting of the Alabama State Bar
Association, upon the Subject of An Inter-State Code Commission. Printed by 
Smith & Armstrong, Montgomery, [1881].  Original printed
sewn wraps, quite chipped and darkened, a fragile survival; 16
pages. [71989] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71989     $ 250.00

The rare and seemingly first professionally published writing of
Taylor, delivered in behalf of the Committee on Jurisprudence and
Law Reform of the Association, of which he was elected President
about a decade later; no copy in OCLC, one in RLIN.

9.  VAN CAENEGEM, R.C.  Judges, Legislators and Professors,
Chapters in European Legal History.  Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1987.  Original cloth, somewhat browned, else a very
good copy in the dustjacket. [71092 L79] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71092     $ 125.00

Based on Professor Van Caenegem's Goodhart Lectures at Cambridge,
where he served as Goodhart Professor in 1984-85; with an
acknowledgement of his indebtedness to Peter Stein, "who kindly
undertook to read the whole manuscript".

10.  WEINREB, Lloyd.  Denial of Justice, Criminal Process in the
United States.  Free Press, New York, 1977.  [47505 L43E]
                                                           $ 35.00

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