Law in Action: An Anthology of the Law in Literature.
New York: Crown Publishers, [1947]. Hardcover. Introduction by Roscoe Pound. 8vo. Grey cloth with burgundy lettering. xiv, 498pp. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn, showing "flecking" to cloth. Item #47341
Just a reprint edition of this broad-based anthology that features fiction and non-fiction jurisprudence-based excerpts ranging from Herman Melville, Anton Chekhov, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Wolfe, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain and others on the fictive side to Plutarch, Montaigne, Thomas B. Macaulay, Alexander Woollcott, Arthur Koestler and many others on the nonfiction side -- with a twist: Tipped to front flyleaf is a Typed Note Signed from introducer Roscoe Pound, 1p, 8" X 10", Cambridge, MA, 3 November 1939. Addressed to noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. On "Law School of Harvard University" letterhead, the famed educator, legal scholar and former dean of Harvard Law School thanks an admirer for birthday greetings, adding, "Have you seen my recent book, 'The Formative Era of American Law'?" Signed boldly at the close.
Price: $55.00