Benefit of Clergy in America by Dalzell, George W - 1955

Blair, 1955-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. John F. Blair, 1955. Hardcover, 299 pp. First edition. Very good in good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1 x 2" triangular chip to the paper over the top edge of the back cover and a few other small nicks and tears and creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flaps] BENEFIT OF CLERGY IN AMERICA has little to do with clergymen and nothing at all with any advantages that may have been derived from the presence of divines in colonial America. Rather, it deals with that curious judicial doctrine whereby one who could demonstrate an ability to read, and thereby establish the fact that he was a clergyman, could escape the death penalty at… Read More

John F. Blair, 1955,. 299pp boards are sl. shelfworn, dj is worn with a few .