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1.     1950 Letter From Eleanor Roosevelt to Felix Frankfurter
[Frankfurter, Felix]. [Letter From Eleanor Roosevelt to Felix
Frankfurter, With Reply.] Double-matted 14-1/2" x 24" wooden frame
containing a 6" x 8-1/2" typed letter from Eleanor Roosevelt with a
response in pencil by Frankfurter flanked by 5" x 7" black and white
portrait photographs. Very good condition. $850.
* The letter on Roosevelt's stationary is dated December 12, 1950 and
bears a large signature. It reads: "Dear Mr. Justice:/I imagine this
is meant/ for you./ With cordial greetings,/ I am/ Very Cordially
yours, Eleanor Roosevelt." The bottom half contains a reply from
Frankfurter: "Dearest Telly/ Going over my/ accumulated unanswered/
mail I came on this. How/ pathetic-and how impotent/ one feels/ Love
Felix."
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2.               Complete Set of American Jurist, 1829-1843
[Journal]. Cushing, Luther S. [and Others], Editor. American Jurist
and Law Magazine. Boston: Freeman and Bolles [and other publishers],
January, 1829-January, 1843. 28 volumes. Each volume includes index.
Complete set. Octavo (5" x 8"). Some volumes are law calf, others are
three-quarter law calf over marbled boards. Backstrips have uniform
appearance with lettering pieces near heads and later volume numbers
at center. Worn, some boards partially detached, front board detached
from a volume, interiors clean and bright. Ex-library. Bookplates to
front pastedowns, embossed stamps to front boards and preliminaries.
An appealing copy of an important title. $3,500.
* The quarterly American Jurist and Law Magazine was arguably the
leading legal journal of its day. It was certainly the most ambitious.
It published scholarly essays on legal points, jurisprudence and
significant current events, review essays, American and British case
notes, question-and-answer materials, historical pieces, reports on
Continental law, digests of important recent treatises, critical
notices and lists of new and forthcoming publications. Contributors
included such distinguished members of the Boston bar as Joseph Story,
Asahel Stearns, Charles G. Loring. Theron Metcalf and George S.
Hilliard. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909)
I:39. Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 59. Friedman, A History of
American Law 288.
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3.          Source Records of Canadian Constitution History
Egerton, M.A., and W.L. Grant, Editors. Canadian Constitutional
Development: Shown by Selected Speeches and Despatches, with
Introductions and Explanatory Notes. Toronto: The Musson Book Company
Limited, [1907]. xxii, 472 pp. Original cloth, top edge gilt. Binding
slightly cocked, some rubbing with minor wear to corners and spine
ends, internally clean. $125.
* This thoroughly annotated collection of source documents from 1760
to 1867 traces the evolution of Canada's constitution from the time of
the British conquest to the confederation. The sections, which are
arranged according to historical turning points, are "Instructions to
Governor James Murray," "The Quebec Act," "The Constitutional Act of
1791," "Proposals for Union," "Lord Durham's Report," "Responsible
Government in the Maritime Provinces," "Responsible Government," "The
Annexation Movement," "The Tariff Controversy," and "Federation."
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4.              "A Legal Classic of the Highest Order"
Gould, James [1770-1838]. A Treatise on the Principles of Pleading, in
Civil Action. Revised and Corrected by the Author. [iv], x, 536 pp.
Includes four-page publisher catalogue. Octavo (6" x 9"). Recent
period-style quarter calf over cloth, lettering piece, endpapers
renewed. Clean tears to a few leaves and a chip to the foot of another
with no loss to text. Light toning and occasional light foxing,
interior otherwise clean. A handsome copy. $450.
* Second edition. Gould was Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court and
the director of the Litchfield Law School, the first school of its
kind in the United States. Based on his lectures, this treatise
expounds his system of pleading principles in an orderly, scientific
and reasonable manner. "Gould's Pleading is a legal classic of the
highest order, and has placed its author among the very best legal
writers of the age.": Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 342. Cohen,
Bibliography of Early American Law 9221.
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5.       The First History of the Common Law
Hale, Matthew [1609-1676]. The History of the Common Law. With Notes,
References, and Some Account of the Life of he Author by Charles
Runnington. Dublin: Printed by James Moore, 1792. [ii], xl, [4], 305,
[12], 114, [8] pp. Octavo (5" x 8-1/4"). Contemporary sheep, blind
fillets to boards, rebacked retaining original backstrip with
lettering piece and blind fillets. Light rubbing, front free endpaper
lacking. Offsetting to margins of title page and following three
leaves, foxing to index and rear endleaves. Tiny faint early inkstamp
to head of front board, later owner stamp and signature to title page.
Underlining and notes in pencil to a few leaves, interior otherwise
clean. A very nice copy. $500.
* Fourth edition. First published in 1713, Hale's History of the
Common Law was the first book on the subject. "Hale's wide reading
gave him a sense of historical perspective, which enabled him to map
out the important epochs. Sketch as it is his history is living
history because its author had a clear view of its whole course.":
Holdsworth, Sources and Literature of English Law 151-152. Sweet &
Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations
I:239(18).
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