Criminal Trial Strategy by Tessmer, Charles W - 1968

Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, 1831. Hardcover. Very Good +. 976 p.; 25 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Purdon's Digest 1830. Formerly there was a second label in the fourth compartment. Blind-rolled chain border on each board. Former owner's name on title page and endpapers: J. Miles. Contains the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Pennsylvania, and the laws of Pennsylvania arranged by topic. In Very Good+ Condition: lacking one original spine label; leather is rubbed, with several small scrapes; leather over spine is starting to crack; light foxing; pages are somewhat browned, but clean and tight. A solid copy.

Harrisburg: Pennsylvania General Assembly, 1849. Paperback. Very Good. 15, [1] p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "5" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Light marginal pencil marks throughout. No date of publication. Information in the publication goes up to 1848; the State Library of Pennsylvania gives 1849 as the year of publication. Lawyer and judge Garrick Mallery (1784-1866) served in the Pennsylvania legislature from 1827 to 1830. He was the father of Garrick Mallery (1831-1894), an ethnologist who specialized in Native American sign language. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; first leaf and last leaf detached but present; light marginal pencil marks; otherwise, clean and tight.

Philadelphia: the committee, 1851. Paperback. Very Good. 8 p.; 22 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "4" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. Caption title. The address was put together by a committee chaired by William M. Meredith. The address is followed by a statement by Daniel L. Miller, Jr., president of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company, about the railroad proposed to connect Sunbury to Erie. The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company had been chartered in 1837, but did not begin construction until 1852, when the state passed enabling legislation. No date of publication; based on information in the address, 1851 is the most likely date. William Morris Meredith (1799-1873) was a lawyer in Philadelphia; he served as Secretary of the Treasury under President Zachary Taylor in 1849 and 1850. Very scarce. In Very Good Condition: disbound; minor foxing along gutter; otherwise, clean and tight.

xii + 580 pp. including alphabetical list of contents. Very clean and good condition throughout..

New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. [10], 95 p.; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. White dust jacket printed in blue with portrait of the author on the front section. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with added inscription noting that he died in January, 1978. The author's obituary from the Evening Bulletin is taped to the front fixed endpaper. With 2 pieces of photocopied correspondence from John B. Hannum to Margaret Hileman, daughter of Leo H. McKay, thanking her for the gift of this book (one taped to the half title page, the other loose). John B. Hannum (1915-2007) was a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1991. Leo H. McKay was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County, Pa., from 1954 to 1968. In this book, he discusses 12 trials of particular interest during his time on that bench. Scarce. Book is in Very Good Condition: provenance-related items described above; underlining in… Read More

Cape Town & Johannesburg, Juta, 1945. Hardcover. .. Royal octavo. Pp. lviii, 533. table of cases, appendix, index. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's cloth, spine gilt; corners bit bumped, endpapers lightly browned, old signature to first free endpaper. In a very good condition. ~ Second edition. Professor George Wille (1880-1965), read for his B.A.LLB. at Cambridge. Returning to South Africa in 1903, he was a member of the Transvaal Bar for 18 years, where he practiced as an advocate. He became the first full-time professor of law at University of Cape Town in 1920, holding the chair until 1945, and lecturing chiefly on Roman-Dutch law. Many judges in South Africa and Rhodesia studied under him. Wille was one of the best-known legal writers in South Africa. He was known for his liberal outlook and for his support of equal legal rights to South Africa's underprivileged classes. 006-3

American Bar Association, 1926. Book. Near Fine. Half-Leather. First Edition, Limited and Numbered. Fine but for prev. owner name ( 1926 ), traces of wear to extremities, and slightest fading to spine. This is copy #160 of 250. Spine is gilt stamped with 5 raised bands. A very attractive copy. Large, overweight volume will require extra postage..

2 VOLUMES. Hughes, Rupert: Miss 318 AND Miss 318 And Mr. 37. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1911, 1912 1st Editions. Illustrated by Victor Semon Perard. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. NO DUST JACKETS ARE INCLUDED. RARE Historical fiction based on actual events that occurred during the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE: "One of the worst industrial disasters in the history of New York City, causing 146 deaths and an unknown number of injuries, took place on Saturday, March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company.

xii + 580 pp. including alphabetical list of contents. Very clean and good condition throughout..

New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. [10], 95 p.; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. White dust jacket printed in blue with portrait of the author on the front section. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with added inscription noting that he died in January, 1978. The author's obituary from the Evening Bulletin is taped to the front fixed endpaper. With 2 pieces of photocopied correspondence from John B. Hannum to Margaret Hileman, daughter of Leo H. McKay, thanking her for the gift of this book (one taped to the half title page, the other loose). John B. Hannum (1915-2007) was a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1991. Leo H. McKay was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County, Pa., from 1954 to 1968. In this book, he discusses 12 trials of particular interest during his time on that bench. Scarce. Book is in Very Good Condition: provenance-related items described above; underlining in… Read More