Housekeeping in Old Virginia by Tyree, Marion Cabell - 1965

New York Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. Tall 8vo, purple quarter cloth with white lettering on spine over green boards; archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with sketcch of a soldier pulling a Rickshaw; viii, [ix-x] + 338 pages. Norval Morris (1923-2004) was an Australian-educated brilliant United States law professor, criminologist, and advocate for criminal justice and mental health reform, and a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School.<br/> <br/> In this engaging volume, one of America's great legal thinkers, Norval Morris,<br/> addresses perplexing and controversial questions of justice as "parables of the law" via the fictive persona of Eric Blair (aka George Orwell).<br/> <br/> These stories address highly charged issues: capital punishment, insanity or the "battered wife syndrome" as murder defenses, child custody, "parental… Read More