New Haven CT: New Haven Women's Liberation, 1976. Periodical. 4to, pp. 15. Stamped complimentary copy on front, o/w a VG copy. Lead article is "The ERA and the Supreme Court." More about SISTER; Vol. 5 No. 11 December 1976
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. 8vo, pp. vi, 330. Index. Frontis portrait. Dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Donor's presentation on pastedown. Cover little scuffed at corners and slightly worn at ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. More about LEMUEL SHAW; Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 1830-1860
[South Hadley]: Bergin & Garvey, 1985. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 134. A very good tight copy. An oral history of American women and the law. More about UNEQUAL ACCESS; Women lawyers in a changing America, foreword by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Boston: Little, Brown, 1956. 8vo, pp. 223. Table of cases. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Cover somewhat scuffed and little worn at corners and spine, a few notes in ink, two-page summary of a case stapled on a blank at rear, o/w a VG tight copy. More about HANDBOOK OF ILLINOIS EVIDENCE
Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 348. Table of cases, index. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Cover somewhat scuffed and little worn at corners and spine, edges slightly soiled, owners' names on flyleaf. A VG tight copy. More about HANDBOOK OF ILLINOIS EVIDENCE
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, (2012). First printing. 8vo, pp. xviii, 218. Resources, notes, index. Foreword by Bill Moyers. Paper wraps. Cover and edges slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. More about CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE; Why they have more rights than you do and what you can do about it
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 323. VG copy. English born, but raised in Arizona and Colorado, Ashton-Wolfe selected these stories from official records of great criminals. Includes a chapter on Mata Hari. More about WARPED IN THE MAKING,; rimes of love and hate. With illustrations
NY: Roy, (1952). First edn? 8vo, Pp. 302. Pages little browned, a good copy. OP? Thompson and her supposed lover Frederick Bywaters were hung after being convicted of murdering her husband Percy Thompson. More about THE INNOCENCE OF EDITH THOMPSON
NY: Greenberg, (1958). First edn. 8vo, Pp. 251. Little soiled cloth. The story of men and women who have committed crimes of passions in England and France. More about CRIME OF PASSION
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1980). First edn? 8vo, Pp. 408. Fine in dj. "A social history of women in America ... told through the stories of women driven to kill." More about WOMEN WHO KILL
NY: Scribner, 1955. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 218. Fine in dj. A discussion of four famous murder cases in which women are the central figures. More about THE WOMAN IN THE CASE
Washington DC: Citizens' Advisory Council of the Status of Women, 1970. Small 4to, pp. i, 18. Paper, stapled at left. Slightly soiled and rippled, o/w VG. More about THE PROPOSED EQUAL RIGHT AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION; A memorandum
Boston: Walker, Wise, 1860. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 167. Brown cloth. Ex library, with labels on cover, stamps in interior, and bookplate on flyleaf. Cover worn at ends of spine, scuffed at edges, a little foxing on end leaves, o/w VG. Ms. Zakrzewska was founder and resident physician at... More about A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF 'WOMAN'S RIGHT TO LABOR";; or, A letter from Marie E....
Chicago: Kerr, 1975. Republication of a 1902 pamphlet. 12mo, pp. 41. New introduction by Irving S. Abrams. Paper wraps. Cover slightly creased and soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. More about AN ADDRESS TO THE PRISONERS IN THE COOK COUNTY JAIL
Providence: Knowles & Vose, 1841. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 124. removed from a bound volume, lacking the errata slip. A good clean copy. Sabin 19673. A debate on child custody and property rights of women in divorce cases. The D'Hautevilles were married in Switzerland, where by the laws of the... More about THE PETITION OF ... TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF RHODE ISLAND,; To except Paul Daniel Gonsalve...
NY: The Shakespeare Press, London: Kegan Paul, 1899. First edition. 8vo, pp. 51. Bound in vellum backed boards (some faded around the edges), untrimmed, a very good copy. Publications of the Shakespeare Society of New York no. 12. Devecmon argues against the theories that the writer of Shakespeare's plays was once a lawyer. More about IN RE SHAKESPEARE'S "LEGAL ACQUIREMENTS"; notes by an unbeliever therein
Boston: Little, Brown, 1911. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 371. Index. Yellow cloth. Ex library, with stamps, labels. Cover somewhat scuffed and soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. More about THE LIABILILTY OF RAILROADS TO INTERSTATE EMPLOYEES; A study of certain aspects of federal...
Douglas thanks the recipient for his kind words on Douglas' book, Beyond the High Himalayas and thanks him for the copy of They Dare to Believe. William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the... More about TLS,; one page on US Supreme Court Stationary, October 15, 1952 to Dr. Robert M Bartlett of the...
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1995). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 245. Small stain and tear on dj, o/w a nice copy. More about THE SNARLING CITIZEN; Essays
Chicago: A. W. Shaw, 1926. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xv, 639. Index. Green cloth. Edges somewhat soiled, cover little scuffed at corners and ends of spine, owner's name stamped on pastedown, o/w a VG tight copy. OP. Material about labor legislation. More about THE GOVERNMENT AND LABOR; with a foreword by John R. Commons
West Group / American College of Trial Lawyers, (2000). 8vo, pp.ix, 293. Notes, index. Illustrated with photographs. Paper over boards, stamped in gilt. As new. More about SAGES OF THEIR CRAFT; The first fifty years of the American College of Trial Lawyers
Charlottesville, VA: Lexis, (2000). Third edn., second printing, 2000 reprint. Large 8vo, pp. 1584. Includes a table of cases and index. Little highlighting in text, o/w a very nice copy. Law text book. More about FAMILY LAW:; Cases, text, problems
NY: Basic, (1981). First edn. 8vo, pp. 438. Nice copy in dj. Name on title-page. IP@$49.95. * An account of woman lawyers and a discussion of how women are changing society and breaking new ground in law through their legal careers. More about WOMEN IN LAW
Boston: Fox, 1898. George, Vesper L. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 117. Illustrated by Vesper L. George. Author's presentation on flyleaf, dated 1925. Brown cloth, TEG.. Ex llibrary, with stamps and bookplate. Cover little scuffed at edges, o/w a VG tight copy. Wright III, 1791. Fall was a lawyer and... More about THE TRAGEDY OF A WIDOW'S THIRD
NY: Macmillan, (1994). First printing. 8vo, pp. v, 981. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Edges slightly soiled, with remainder mark on bottom, o/w a nice copy in very slightly soiled and chipped dj. More about LIBERTY AND SEXUALITY; The right to provacy and the making of Roe v. Wade
