[Rarebooks] FS - O'Hooligan's Fine Forms, legal satire

[Michael Watson]

FS - O'Hooligan's Fine Forms, legal satire

$50 USD postpaid in the USA, others please inquire

Ryan, Thomas Curran, O'Hooligan's Fine Forms Bobbs-Merrill, 1904, 1st 
Thus, Hardcover, Small 8vo  7½" - 8" tall, 157 pp., VG-/ Well-worn spine 
ends. Nick to spine at the hinge. Spine scuffed and lighter than the 
quarter spine on the covers. All edges of the paper covers show wear 
Lacks the front free endpaper.

The hitherto "unpublished judicial utterances of Justice O'Hooligan." 
Basically a turn of the century satire on legal proceedings and the law. 
Documents 12 fictional cases where the Justice served justice.
Examples include a judicial opinion regarding a suit for the delivery of 
bad cigars, a suit to recover costs from the Hale and Hearty Fire and 
Life Insurance Company, etc.

Pastedowns printed with a fictional coat of arms depicting a marching 
duck with a feather in it's bill and the Latin "Holeus Laser" and "In 
Hoc Signo Spes Mea" with "If you see a head hit it."

Quarter calf leather with dark green paper on boards, gilt title to 
cover and spine. Head off text block trimmed, other edges not. Penciled 
name of previous owner and tiny ownership stamp to title page. Author 
was a member of the Wisconsin bar and wrote other works on philosophy, 
religion, and astrophysics (and his views on that were marginalized by 
the scientific community in their day). Clean. Several copies in 
institutions, otherwise scarce.

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