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1947247225Washington D.C. 1947. One page on letterhead of the Supreme Court of the United States. 4to. Docketed in pencil. Fine in navy custom cloth folder. One page on letterhead of the Supreme Court of the United States. 4to. "As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master". ". I am glad to know that Mr. Justice William O. Douglas of this Court will speak at the public dinner to be held in observance of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of John Peter Altgeld the late Governor of Illinois and a leadiing apostle of the Bill of Rights. He not only wished to be free himself but wished that others share his freedom. Evidently he subscribed to Lincoln's definition of democracy - 'As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master underscored .". unknown books
003456Near Fine. N.d. circa 1900. The pen and ink drawing is 11 by 18 cm oblong. Depicted are a few skaters in the foreground one woman brought to her knees and a sketchy crowd in the background. Not to be mistaken for the automaker industrialist who lived during the same time the English artist Ford is best remembered for illustrations in the popular Andrew Lang colored fairy book series. Besides doing illustrations for books by Scott and Kipling among many others Ford did free-standing painting some of which today hangs in museum collections. Matted. Light soiling by the edges. <br/><br/> unknown books
196318139Iowa City: Stone Wall Press & The Finial Press 1963. First edition. Limited to 270 copies. Presentation copy inscribed to the poet Mark Strand: "For Mark & Antonia with love & kisses Donald Justice. Covers somewhat sunned along extremities edges a trifle nicked two tiny pen marks on back cover otherwise a fine copy. Tall 8vo wrappers. Covers somewhat sunned along extremities edges a trifle nicked two tiny pen marks on back cover otherwise a fine copy. Stone Wall Press & The Finial Press unknown books
185435849New York: Pudney & Russell 1854. 29pp sewn original printed wrappers moderately worn rear wrap loose. Light foxing old pencil marks Very Good. <br/><br/> Salmon P. Chase the anti-slavery politician who became Lincoln's Treasury Secretary and Taney's successor as Chief Justice argued for O'Reilly and his fellow appellants. They attempted to invalidate Morse's 1840 and 1848 patents on the 'Electro-Magnetic Telegraphs.' <br/> The Court's 6-3 decision finds for Morse Taney writing the majority opinion. Of Morse the Court holds that "no one has contributed more to enlarge the knowledge of Electro-Magnetism and to lay the foundations of the great invention of which we are speaking than the professor himself." The Court reviews the history and development of Morse's invention the similar work of Wheatstone and Davy in England and Steinheil in Munich; and finds that Morse's telegraph preceded theirs. An energetic dissent was filed by Grier in which Justices Nelson and Wayne joined. <br/> The claims of O'Reilly were not frivolous. Well-known to Congress as a tireless advocate of transcontinental wireless communication he was an emigrant from Ireland. "After the invention of the telegraph he entered upon the work of extending the lines to the west but became involved in lawsuits which almost ruined him financially" Appleton.<br/>Not in Cohen or Sabin. OCLC 25802195 1- U VA 226397273 1- OH State Lib. as of May 2019. Pudney & Russell unknown books
196718138Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1967. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Justice on the front free endpaper to the poet Mark Strand: "This copy is for Mark & Antonia who kept the light on. Don Justice March 1967". With APCS August 22 1970 from Justice to Strand laid in: "Went to the horse races Monday decided to apply my new irrational 'system'. I might as well amuse myself if possible - I don't seem to be able to concentrate on any 'work' here: it's climate & family I think. Fine copy in somewhat rubbed jacket with two short closed tears on back panel. Square 8vo cloth dust jacket. Fine copy in somewhat rubbed jacket with two short closed tears on back panel. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
197018137Iowa City: Stone Wall Press 1970. First edition. Limited to 250 copies. Berger 40. Presentation copy inscribed by Justice to the poet Mark Strand: "To Mark & Antonia Strand as the dedication was supposed to have read Don Justice May 1970. Top and bottom edges a little nicked covers a trifle sunned otherwise a fine copy. Tall 8vo wrappers. Top and bottom edges a little nicked covers a trifle sunned otherwise a fine copy. Stone Wall Press unknown books
2008719242008. Ulman Leon Editor. Ulman Leon Editor. Department of Justice. Office of Legal Counsel. Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice. Vols. 1-32 1977-2008 in 20 books. Washington: For sale by the Supt. of Docs. U.S. G.P.O. Reprint W.S. Hein 1990. Gray buckram with blue spine lettering hardcover. Ex-library with property stamps and shelf location labels at foot of spine else very good. Reprint Price USD 1650. Special $695. Selected memorandum opinions advising the President of the United States the Attorney General and other executive officers of the federal government in relation to their official duties. The Attorney General has directed the Office of Legal Counsel to publish selected opinions for the convenience of the Executive Legislative and Judicial Branches of the government and of the professional bar and the general public. The authority of the Office of Legal Counsel to render legal opinions derives from the authority of the Attorney General. Under the Judiciary Act of 1789 the Attorney General was authorized to render opinions on questions of law when requested by the President and the heads of Executive Branch departments. This authority is now codified at 28 U.S.C. 511-513. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 510 the Attorney General has delegated to the Office of Legal Counsel responsibility for preparing the formal opinions of the Attorney General rendering opinions and legal advice to the various Executive Branch agencies assisting the Attorney General in the performance of his function as legal adviser to the President and rendering opinions to the Attorney General and the heads of the various organizational units of the Department of Justice. 28 C.F.R. 0.25. unknown books
003458Near Fine. N.d. circa 1900. The pen and ink ink drawing is 20 by 11.5 cm. Depicted is Philip James Bailey who is carrying under his arms his 1839 magnum opus the very long poem "Festus" admired by Tennyson and other leading poets of the day and supposedly an influence on James Joyce. The work was Bailey's only success and he continued to add to it during his long life following its initial appearance. It is this pattern of accretions which Ford would appear to be lampooning in this caricature. Ford is best remembered today for illustrating the dozen Andrew Lang colored fairy book series and next for illustrating works by Scott Kipling and many others. He also did free-standing painting and some of his work belongs now to museum collections. Matted. <br/><br/> unknown books
003457Near Fine. N.d. circa 1900. The pen and ink lightly tinted drawing is 20 by 15 cm. It is an amusing self-portrait all big blocky head boots and suspenders suspended over the artist's pate. Not really characteristic of this versatile artist's work yet a splendid work of great economy and humor somewhat in the vein of Edward Lear. Ford is best remembered today for illustrating the dozen Andrew Lang colored fairy book series and next for illustrating works by Scott Kipling and many others. He also did free-standing painting and some of his work belongs now to museum collections. Matted. <br/><br/> unknown books
7033N. P. 1964: The Associated Press. Hard Cover. SIGNED by President Gerald R. Ford who served on the commission. Octavo 366 pages; original blue printed boards; as issued without dust jacket. Internally very clean; light wear at corners; a very good copy. <br/><br/> The Associated Press hardcover books
195236810New York: National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case 1952. Eight volumes bound in original printed yellow title wrappers. 1715 3 Index pp. Each page printed in two columns each column numbered as a page. Oblong 8vo 7-1/4" x 5-1/4". Stapled as issued Near Fine. Housed in original box. <br/><br/> Nearly seventy years after they were executed for espionage even after the opening of the USSR's secret Venona files the guilt or innocence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg remains a subject of controversy. A National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case the successor to the National Committee to Secure Justice to the Rosenbergs is active to this day. The trial like that of their contemporary Alger Hiss was enveloped by the early years of the Cold War. Added to the mix was the fact that the Rosenbergs were Jewish as were their prosecutors Irving Saypol and Roy Cohn and the trial judge Irving Kaufman. There is little doubt that significant prejudicial conduct occurred at trial including ex parte meetings with the trial judge and the introduction of inflammatory evidence which had little probative value. <br/> The National Committee published this Record "confident that the dispassionate reader will perceive the gross miscarriage of justice that cries out for redress." The Committee claims that David and Ruth Greenglass the government's "main witnesses" were themselves spies whose testimony was tainted by their desire to avoid the death penalty. There was no documentary evidence of the Rosenbergs' guilt. Indeed the prosecution whipped the jury into an anti-Communist frenzy; and the sentence of death was "barbaric. National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case unknown books
4675JOHN McLEAN 1785-1861. McLean a politician from Ohio served in a number of roles including Commissioner of the General Land Office and Postmaster General. He was an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Jackson in 1829 until his death. He was one of the two Justices to vote against the Dred Scott decision. McLean was frequently mentioned as a Presidential candidate. AMS. 2pg. 7 ½†x 12 ½â€. December 18 1846. Washington D.C. An autograph manuscript signed “Cornelia J. Orme†and a letter signed “Maria W.D. Ormeâ€. It is addressed to Supreme Court Justice John McLean. The first page is an acrostic written by the young poet Cornelia. The first letters spell out the words “HONJOHNMCLEANOFOHIO†and reads “How shall my simple muse aspire Of him to sing whose graced sublime strain Noblest of Men for subject for the Lyre. Justly my Harp her humble strings refrain - Oh would some favored votary of the Nine Her Poets power awhile bestow No minstrelsy should vie with mine - My verse thy greatness then would show - Could I but half thy goodness tell Long would its cheerful chords vibrate E’en with soft music would its strings aye swell - And gladly thy great worth relate. Now when each place with honour you have filled Of which unsought your virtues have obtained. For thee their Head our own blest Nation’s willed Our interests to serve and have our righteous Laws sustained High in the hearts of all from proud to lowly train In all beloved while grateful men remain - Oh never will they cease to bless the Noble good and true McLean.†The interior page contains a letter signed “Maria W.D. Orme†and the letter’s body is in the handwriting of Cornelia. Orme wrote to McLean: “I am still spared ‘till the period of your return to Washington but have no other means of manifesting my pleasure for your health and arrival than by a few lines on paper. None more sincerely can do so than myself or will be more truly glad to see you when you have leisure to call at the same resident corner of 12 St and Maryland Avenue. Allow me to accompany this ‘expression’ of an Acrostic written by my little daughter with whom the Muses have been tampering and whose impression of you she has thus poetically attempted to portray – and like all other embryo poetry’s wishes it to be presented – which I permit her to do not for the need of praise but as a simple fireside offering – which I am sure you will not reject…Maria W.D. Ormeâ€. Cornelia Orme wrote the popular book of children’s poems Forget-Me-Nots from Dew Drop Dale under the name Ruth Rustic. Maria Orme and her husband Rezin were involved in an infamous slavery event. In the 1830s Rezin sold a slave named Dorcas and her four children to a slave trader in Alexandria Virginia for $700. Dorcas had been promised her freedom by an earlier deceased owner and Rezin inherited Dorcas and her family through marriage and death. Dorcas killed her two younger children and was prevented from killing the other two because of the screams of her dying children. She was tried and found not guilty by reason of insanity. The abolitionist John Quincy Adams noted the incident in his 1830s diary. The verso of the integral leaf is addressed by Cornelia to “Hon. John McLean / Supreme Court U.S. / Washington D.C.†There is a small portion missing at blank right margin and a hole at blank fold. unknown books
1982719371982. Vols. 1-43 1791-1982. Vols. 1-43 1791-1982. United States Department of Justice. Hall Benjamin F. C.C. Andrews J.Hubley Ashton et al. Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States Advising the President and Heads of Departments in Relation to their Official Duties; and Expounding the Constitution Subsisting Treaties with Foreign Governments and with Indian Tribes and the Public Laws of the Country. Compiled with Notes and References. Volumes 1 to 43. 1791-1982. Title varies slightly. Washington: Published by Robert Farnham Later volumes published by other publishers including the Government Printing Office 1852-1996. Tan buckram with upper red and lower black spine labels. Ex-library with property stamps and shelf location labels at foot of spines else very good. $795. As the legal adviser to the executive officials of the government the attorney general renders requested legal advice generally in the form of written opinions. Although these opinions are official statements of an executive officer they are merely advisory statements and are not mandatory orders. unknown books
1963132908Iowa City IA: Stone Wall Press & The Finial Press 1963. wrappers. Stone Wall Press. 4to. wrappers. XII pages. Limited to 270 copies. Although not called for this copy is signed by Donald Justice on the colophon. Donald Justice is a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Stone Wall Press & The Finial Press unknown books
1765047101The Hague: Henry Justice 1765. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. J.L. de Boubers. Full contemporary paneled calf marbled endpapers page edges painted yellow. front hinges rubbed and cracked but intact one lettering piece lacking and the other cracked spines a bit dry. Slight foxing occasionally but generally fine internally and entirely engraved throughout. Full page plates head and tail pieces and vignette illustration throughout. Folding map in volume II. Five volumes bound in two. <br/><br/>The first Justice edition of Virgil engraved throughout in imitation of John Pine's Horace 1737 and published at Justice's great expense between 1757 and 1765 the final work done after Justice's death in 1763. Justice was a prolific book collector and occasional book thief - the latter got him expelled to the colonies in 1736 and later commuted to life in exile on the continent. His wife the travel writer Elizabeth Justice wrote a thinly disguised autobiographical novel about the difficulties of living with a man who would rather destroy their lives than quit buying books Amelia or the Distressed Wife 1751. Size: Octavo 8vo. Illustrator: J.L. de Boubers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Poetry. Inventory No: 047101. Henry Justice hardcover books
2020719062020. Vols 1-27 1940-2020 complete set. Vols 1-27 1940-2020 complete set. Administrative Decisions under Immigration and Nationality Laws of the U.S. Washington United States Department of Justice. Board of Immigration Appeals. Reprint W.S. Hein. Volumes 1 to 27 1940-2020. Complete set of all volumes published to date. Tan buckram hardcover with gilt lettered green spine labels. Ex-library with property stamps and shelf location labels at foot of spines else very good. Publisher's Price USD 2100. Special $995. This is the official publication for immigration-related decisions of the the Board of Immigration Appeals BIA Attorney General and former INS decisions selected as precedent. As such it is the most commonly cited publication for administrative decisions in immigration matters. Volume 15 includes an Index for volumes 1-15. Volume 25 includes an Index for volumes 16-25. unknown books
1970132955Iowa City IA: Stone Wall Press The 1970. stiff paper wrappers. Stone Wall Press. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 250 copies of which this particular copy is signed by Justice on the Colophon. Printed by hand. Acknowledgments table of contents. A collection of poetry. A tight bright and unmarred copy. Stone Wall Press, The unknown books
1960132945Iowa City IA: Stone Wall Press 1960. quarter leather with paste paper covered boards gilt lettering on spine. Stone Wall Press. 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper covered boards gilt lettering on spine. 140 pages. Limited to 200 copies of which this is one of 180 numbered copies on Rives Light paper. One of the more uncommon titles from K.K. Merker's Stone Wall Press. Very light sunning to top of front and rear boards. Head of spine repaired. Stone Wall Press unknown books
51069237 pp. text on prison reform in mid-century Spain divided into chapters with headings such as "Educación Cultura y Arte" "Labor Religiosa" "Trabajos Exteriores" "Redención de Penas" "Libertad Condicional" and "Instituciones Especiaies" followed by an unpaginated 28 pp. appendix titled "Estadistica Penitenciaria" of various tables and charts documenting statistics such as number of prisoners age of prisoners and reasons for imprisonment. Illustrated profusely throughout with photographs and colorful charts. 4to. Original publisher's full brown gilt morocco with marbled endpapers house in original cloth slipcase. A couple of very minor abrasions and scratches to leather minor creasing wear along spine; some abrasions minor paper loss and wear along edges to slipcase. Alcala de Henares Spain Talleres Penitenciarios 1954. Inscribed on one of flyleaves by the Inspector General of Spanish prisons to a Professor Hennings. A work of propaganda from the Franco government on the Spanish prison system illustrated with photographs taken at various penitentiaries throughout Spain depicting male prisoners hard at work happy female prisoners and the children of prisoners being well taken care-of. Scarce; as of November 2020 OCLC locates only two holdings in international institutions and none in the United States. hardcover books
74988President George H.W. Bush Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Signed 1989 Inaugural Invitation. 8.5" x 11"; Washington D.C.; with First Day Cancellation stamp dated January 20 1989. Invitation to the inauguration of George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle. Signed by President George H.W. Bush William H. Rehnquist and Sandra Day O'Connor. Justice Rehnquist swore in President Bush and Justice O'Connor swore in the Vice President Quayle. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 15.5 inches by 13.5 inches. unknown books
19511688Miami: Pandanus Press 1951. First edition. 8 10 6 pp. Hand-sewn blue wrappers printed title label on front cover. One of 240 copies hand-set and printed by Preston H. Dettman. Some edgewear and surface wear to covers very minor old staining contents clean. The very rare first publication by an important American poet preceding his first regularly published book The Summer Anniversaries by nine years. Justice earned his PhD at Iowa in 1954 and was long associated with the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Despite the limitation quite scarce; OCLC locates eleven copies. Pandanus Press unknown books
1732650021732. History of Standing Armies in England. 1731. History of Standing Armies in England. 1731. Rare Essay on Injustice Bound with a Warning About Standing Armies Justice. Great Britain. The State Of Justice Impartially Considered. By The Civil Natural And National Law. With Some Curious Admonitions For The Use Of Drousy Bishops Sleepy Judges And Stupid Magistrates. Wherein The Great Delay Off Justice Is Fully Exposed. London: Printed by E. Rayner for the author and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster 1732. 47 1 pp. Bound with Trenchard Thomas 1662-1723. A Short History of Standing Armies in England. London: Printed in the Year 1698. And Now Re-Printed and Sold by W. France 1731. 70 pp. Octavo 7-1/4" x 4-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlets bound into recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards gilt-edged raised bands to spine. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in places light foxing to a few leaves. Excellent copies in a handsome binding. $2500 State of Justice: only edition; Short History: reissue of a title issued three times in 1698. The anonymous author of The State of Justice positions himself as an opponent of bribery and the sale of offices and sinecures and a supporter of an equal distribution of justice and the rule of law. He warns: "It is not the law alone that makes a right government but upright justice and the equal distribution of it which ought to be deeper engraven in the hearts of those who are authorised to execute justice than in tables of stone" 9. It is a learned and somewhat cranky essay filled with references to Roman European and English history. Trenchard's Short Essay is a classic argument against standing armies a central theme in the commonwealthmen tradition that was quite influential in America. This issue was probably a reaction to the expansion of England's military establishment during the Anglo-Spanish War 1727-29 The State of Justice is a rare title. OCLC locates 6 copies worldwide 4 in North America Case Western Reserve University Harvard Law School Northwestern Law School UNC-Chapel Hill. The ESTC adds the University of Kansas. English Short-Title Catalogue N23107 T126898. unknown books
1943111721New York: Random House 1943. First edition of Dahl's rare first book with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto original half cloth pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by Disney animator Bill Justice on the half-title page with a large drawing of a Gremlin "Sorry Ray That's a lousy Gremlin Bill Justice." Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as Fantasia The Three Caballeros Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from Bambi and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. He was the director of The Truth About Mother Goose Noah's Ark and A Symposium On Popular Songs all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject Cartoon. In total Justice worked on 57 shorts and 19 features. Good in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and wear. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attache for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins a children's story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore notwithstanding Dahl's claims to have invented the word and sent it to Sidney Bernstein the head of the British Information Service who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942 and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project however was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren and invited Dahl to the White House. Random House hardcover books
1965568571965. U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Supreme Court. Portrait Photograph of Lyndon Johnson Inscribed To Supreme Court Justice and UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg Johnson Lyndon Baines 1908-1973. Goldberg Arthur 1908-1990. Photograph of Johnson Inscribed to Goldberg. N.p. N.d. 1965. 8" x 10" color portrait photograph printed credit in the image at bottom left glazed and framed in tasteful black-and-gold wooden 16" x 19" frame. Bold inscription and full signature below image. A few tiny nicks to frame image fine. $5000. The undated inscription reads "To Arthur Goldberg-/ With the high regard and affection/ of his friend-/ Lyndon B. Johnson." Appointed by President Kennedy Goldberg was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 to 1965 and one of the most significant justices of the twentieth century. In his three terms on the bench he pushed the Court toward a broader construction of personal rights a course it followed over the following two decades. He is best known for his influential 1963 internal Supreme Court memorandum that condemned capital punishment as an example of "cruel and unusual punishment" as defined by the Eighth Amendment and his opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 which argued against a Connecticut law banning the use of contraceptives because it violated an un-enumerated right to privacy guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment. The memo initiated a wave of litigation and legislation that led to the abolition of the death penalty in several states; the Griswold opinion laid the foundation for Roe v. Wade 1973 which established a women's right to have an abortion. When Adlai Stevenson Ambassador to the United Nations died in 1965 President Johnson decided to appoint Goldberg to fill his seat. Johnson's larger plan was to put Abe Fortas on the bench because he knew Fortas would defend his Great Society programs and spy on the Court for him. Probably a recipient of the legendary Johnson "treatment" Goldberg was persuaded to resign while flying to Stevenson's funeral on Air Force One. Goldberg went on to say that he accepted the UN Ambassadorship in order to resolve the Vietnam Conflict. This photograph may be a memento of that 1965 flight or one of the tools Johnson used to persuade Goldberg. unknown books
