Search Results: Titles starting with S from The Lawbook Exchange Ltd

1984. Barclay, J.B. The S.S.C. Story, 1784-1984: Two Hundred Years of Service in The College of Justice. Edinburgh: Edina, 1984. xiii, 358 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover, light shelfwear, light fading to spine. $30.

2004. [Securities Law]. SEC Corporate Disclosure Reforms: Compendium. James Hamilton and Ted Trautman. Chicago: CCH WaltersKluwer. 2004. 303 pp. Softbound. New. Publisher's Price USD 79. Special $5. * Provides a comprehensive reference covering the SEC's post-Enron reform adoptions that involve enhanced and more timely disclosure of information important to investors. Contains the two individual SEC Corporate Disclosure Reforms titles - Accelerated Deadlines for Periodic Reports and CEO/CFO Certification - with coverage of the recent, and dramatic, Form 8-K amendments. Includes full-text of SEC adopting releases and final rules, as well as invaluable CCH explanations and topical index.

1990. Fraenkel, Osmond K. The Sacco-Vanzetti Case. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Reprint. [Birmingham, [Ala.]: The Notable Trials Library, 1990]. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. xv, 550, xv pp. Illustration. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $25. * "As a digest, the book presents in bold relief the legal questions involved, as well as the background and perspective of the controversies that did not die with Sacco and Vanzetti, all in such an accessible form that the student need not peruse the original record, unless he has a passion for 'original sources.'": Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 1002.

1969. With an Introduction by William O. Douglas [C] [Trials]. Sacco, Nicola [1891-1927], Defendant. Vanzetti, Bartolomeo [1888-1927], Defendant. Douglas, William O. [1898-1980], Introductory Essay. The Sacco-Vanzetti Case: Transcript of the Record of the Trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the Courts of Massachusetts and Subsequent Proceedings 1920-1927. Mamaroneck: Paul P. Appel, 1969. Six volumes. Illustrated. Original buckram, gilt titles and volume numbers to spines. Moderate shelfwear, internally fresh, presentation inscription from Paul P. Appel to front free endpaper of Volume I. $300. * Second and final edition, a reprint of the six-volume edition by Charles C. Burlingham and Bernard Flexner (New York: Henry Holt, 1928-1929). The contents include the full stenographic minutes of the trial, material from the court record that was not included in the original Holt edition, documentation of the motions made and the final proceedings and decisions. Also includes what exists of the… Read More

2015. Chesler, Phyllis. Sacred Bond. The Legacy of Baby M. New York: Times Books, [1988]. vii, 212 pp. New Introduction by Alan M. Deshowitz. Reprinted The Legal Classics Library, 2015. Signed by the author on half-title, "Phyllis Chesler". Full calf, extra gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown, else fine. $60.

1970. Blake, John Ballard. Safeguarding the Public: Historical Aspects of Medicinal Drug Control. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1970. xi, 200 pp. HArdcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $50.

2023. ISBN-13: 9781616196875; ISBN-10: 1616196874. An Encyclopedic Treatise on the St. Petersburg School Butler, William E. Ivanenko, V.S. The Saint Petersburg School of International Law. Clark, New Jersey: Talbot Publishing, 2023. xxiv, 638 pp., 60 b&w illustrations. ISBN-13: 9781616196875. ISBN-10: 1616196874. Hardcover. New. $185. * Based on unprecedented use of archival sources in St. Petersburg and the United States, this encyclopedic treatise is dedicated to the individuals associated with the development of international legal doctrine and state practice for two centuries in the capital of the Russian Empire. Well over four hundred are identified and the contributions of principal figures are summarized or critiqued. St. Petersburg University, which celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2024, is the key institution, but others played a role. The contributions of each are examined. The "St. Petersburg School" is broadly construed to encompass jurists and international legal practitioners whose… Read More

1894. Guide to the First Major Legislation to Regulate the Purity of Food and Drugs Hedderwick, T[homas] C[harles] H[unter] [1850-1918]. The Sale of Food and Drugs. The Acts of 1875 and 1879 (With Notes of the Reported Cases Decided Since the Acts Became Law). London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1894. xii, 101 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/2"). Contemporary cloth, blind rules to boards, gilt titles to center of front board and spine. Light rubbing and a few minor spots to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities spine ends and corners bumped, hinges starting, moderate toing to interior. $450. * First edition. An elaborate gloss of the first major legislation regulating the adulteration of food and drugs, an effort first begun in 1860, with a section devoted to the adulteration of milk. A second edition was published in 1900. Both editions of this work are scarce. OCLC locates 8 copies of the first, 2 in North America, 1 in a law library (New York Law Institute). Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the… Read More

2014. ISBN-13: 9781616194512. ISBN-10: 1616194510. Fowler, Samuel P., Editor. Salem Witchcraft; Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World. Collected by Robert Calef; And Wonders of the Invisible World, By Cotton Mather; Together With Notes and Explanations. Originally published: Salem, Mass.: H.P. Ives and A.A. Smith, 1861. xxi, [22]-450 pp. Reprinted 2014 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616194512. ISBN-10: 1616194510. Paperback. New. $26.95 * This volume collects two important early accounts of the infamous Salem witchcraft trials based on primary sources. Published in 1693, Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather is an account of selected trials written at the request of the judges, who wished to address claims of impropriety. Though he believed in witchcraft, Mather was critical of the judges' conduct when the trials were underway. After reading the transcripts, however, he concluded that the verdicts rested on ample evidence according to the standards of English and… Read More

2014. ISBN-13: 9781584774624; ISBN-10: 1584774622. Fowler, Samuel P., Editor. Salem Witchcraft; Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World. Collected by Robert Calef; And Wonders of the Invisible World, By Cotton Mather; Together With Notes and Explanations. Originally published: Salem, Mass.: H.P. Ives and A.A. Smith, 1861. xxi, [22]-450 pp. Reprinted 2005, 2014 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774624; ISBN-10: 1584774622. Hardcover. New. $34.95 * This volume collects two important early accounts of the infamous Salem witchcraft trials based on primary sources. Published in 1693, Wonders of the Invisible World by Cotton Mather is an account of selected trials written at the request of the judges, who wished to address claims of impropriety. Though he believed in witchcraft, Mather was critical of the judges' conduct when the trials were underway. After reading the transcripts, however, he concluded that the verdicts rested on ample evidence according to the standards of English and… Read More

1995. Frame, Alex. Salmond: Southern Jurist. Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, 1995. 294 pp. Hardcover in lightly worn dust jacket. $20.

1806. Rome, 1801-1806. Italian and Latin. 1 volume Folio. Rome, 1801-1806. Italian and Latin. 1 volume Folio. Includes Anti-Napoleonic Export Restrictions for Art and Antiquities [Italy]. [Papal States]. [Sammelband of 32 Edicts and Proclamations, 31 Printed, 1 in Manuscript, With a Manuscript Index]. Rome, 1801-1806. [vi], 163 ff. Folio (11-1/2" x 8"). Contemporary thick-paper boards, text block joined with three thong ties, early hand-lettered shelf marks and manuscript paper title label reading "1806 Tomo Quarto" to spine, untrimmed edges. Light soiling, front joint cracked, chipping to spine ends. Texts in Italian and Latin, leaves foliated in manuscript. Light to moderate toning, foxing or spotting in places, some leaves have tears to margins or folds to corners, wormhole through ff. 147-162 with no loss to legibility. $2,650. * Issued during the turbulent pontificate of Pius VII, this interesting volume provides fascinating insights into policy-making in the Papal States during the early years… Read More

1904. Ashville? North Carolina: F.A. Hull, 1904. Ashville? North Carolina: F.A. Hull, 1904. The "Negro of 'Inflooence'" [Broadside]. [African-Americans]. [North Carolina]. Hull, F[red] A., Engraver. A Sample of Democratic White Supremacy in North Carolina. Judge Winston's Dream of Riding the District with George H. White, the Negro of "Inflooence." Are the People of North Carolina Going To Elect Judge Francis D. Winston Lieutenant-Governor? [Asheville?] North Carolina]: F.A. Hull, 1904. 10" x 14" lithographed pictorial broadside, text in upper left and lower right corner. Moderate toning, negligible chipping and light staining to upper right corner, image not affected. $1,850. * A scathing racist attack against Judge Francis D. Winston, the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. He is seen riding in a coach alongside a grotesquely caricatured George Henry White, Republican congressman from North Carolina, 1897-1901, a symbol of Reconstruction and the last African-American… Read More

1805. Justice Made Cheap, Speedy, And Brought to Every Man's Door" [C] [Higgins, Jesse (b. 1763), Attributed]. Sampson Against the Philistines, Or the Reformation of Lawsuits; And Justice Made Cheap, Speedy, And Brought Home to Every Man's Door: Agreeable to the Principles of the Ancient Trial by Jury, Before the Same was Innovated by Judges and Lawyers. Compiled for the Use of the Honest Citizens of the United States. To Whom It is Dedicated. [Washington, DC: Printed by W. Duane, 1805]. v, 98, xxiii (i.e. xxii) pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 5-3/4"). Disbound, moderate toning and light foxing, light soiling and faint staining to title page and verso of final leaf, final two leaves have some loss to text due to trimming. A nice copy of a rare imprint. $950. * First edition. "The authorship of [this work] was ascribed previously to William Sampson and to William Duane. The attribution to Jesse Higgins, a wealthy Delaware landholder, is now well established, based in large part on "Memoirs of a Senator from… Read More

1994. Winslow, Julian D. Samuel Maxwell Harrington, a Pioneer Judge. New York: Vantage Press, [1994]. 1st ed. xi, 223 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $20.

1990. Lewis, Mark Edward. Sanctioned Violence in Early China. Albany: State University of New York Press, [1990]. viii, 374 pp. Softcover. Light shelfwear. $20. * Contents: Chapter 1: The warrior aristocracy; Chapter 2: The warring state; Chapter 3: The art of command; Chapter 4: Cosmic violence; Chapter 5: The social history of violence; Chapter 6: The natural philosophy of violence.

2011. Shoemaker, Karl. Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages: 400-1500. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. xiv, 269 pp. Hardcover in fine dust jacket. $50.

2016. Skelton, Leona J. Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700. London and New York: Routledge, [2016]. xviii, 199 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $50.

1904. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1904. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1904. A Memorial Tribute to a Prominent Female Boston Artist Inscribed, Signed and Marked by Holmes [Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841-1935)]. [Whitman, Sarah Wyman (1842-1904)]. Sarah Whitman. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1904. [vi], 27, [2] pp. Specked paper boards with contrasting spine, title and image of wreath to front board, gilt title to spine, deckle edges. Light wear to spine ends and corners, light toning to text, light foxing to a few leaves. "Helen C. Bell/ 14 Chestnut St./ From O.W. Holmes" in pencil to head of title page, check marks in pencil, most likely by Holmes, in margins next to two passages. $2,500. * A prominent and commercially successful painter and stained glass and book cover designer who ran an important literary salon with her husband, Whitman was one of Holmes's neighbors in Boston and Beverly Farms. Sarah Whitman is a record of a memorial service in her honor at the Baptist Church in Beverly… Read More

2002. [Corporate Governance]. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Law and Explanation. As signed by President George W. Bush on July 30, 2002. Chicago: CCH Inc., 2002. 235 pp. Softbound. As new, excellent condition. $10. * The Act was a landmark and comprehensive piece of legislation that fundamentally changes the way public companies do business and how the accounting profession performs its statutorily required audit function. It makes structural changes in the auditing of financial statements and the corporate disclosure regime. It establishes a comprehensive framework to modernize and reform the oversight of public company auditing, and improve the quality and transparency of corporate financial reporting.