[Rarebooks] FS: First Issue of O. W. Holmes, Jr.'s Legal Classic THE COMMON LAW, 1881, price greatly reduced
Charles Agvent
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Tue Jun 24 10:52:35 EDT 2014
Price reduced: WAS $1500 NOW $1000 NET
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Jr. THE COMMON LAW. Boston: Little, Brown, and
Company, 1881. First Edition. First Issue with the two-line printer's
imprint on title page verso repeated with ampersand on page 422.
Original pebbled russet cloth, as with Holmes's personal copy. A classic
of literature on law, this collection of lectures given at the Lowell
Institute in Boston is one of the most influential books on legal
scholarship of nineteenth century America. Grolier, 100 American, 84:
"This brilliant exposition, as effective on English scholarship and
legal thinking as on American, of the true nature of law both as a
development from the past and an organism of the present, blew fresh air
into lawyers' minds encrusted with Blackstone and Kent." From its
opening paragraph: "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been
experience.... In order to know what it is, we must know what it has
been, and what it tends to become." Paper toned; old dampstain to the
bottom right edge affecting just the margin of the first 35 pages. Rear
cover with some spotting; spine frayed along the edge with near repairs
and a 1/4" horizontal strip of black pitch likely used to repair an old
tear. Still a Very Good copy of this high spot of legal scholarship.
Holmes served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from
1899 until 1902. In 1902 he was appointed to the United States Supreme
Court by President Theodore Roosevelt, a position he held until his
retirement in 1932. Holmes became famous for his liberal interpretations
of the United States Constitution and was known as the "Great Dissenter"
because of his disagreement with the views of his colleagues on the
Court. (#015707) $1,000.00
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