Shriver Harry C Ed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 280 pages. Some wear, a little staining to the cloth; name inside; pages tanned; a couple lightly wrinkled page edges but a good solid book overall. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Legal, Jurisprudence, Government; Inventory No: 198969.

First Edition. First edition. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr, [1841-1935]. Shriver, Harry C. Editor. The Judicial Opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Constitutional Opinions, Selected Excerpts and Epigrams as Given in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1883-1902). With a Foreword by Francis Biddle. Buffalo, NY: Dennis & Co., 1940. First edition. Frontispiece, xvi, 360. pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and blind frames to boards. Light shelfwear. Internally clean. A very good copy. $65. * This book compiles the early judicial work of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. during his 20-year tenure on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, just before his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. It traces Holmes's early legal philosophy on state powers and individual rights with an inside perspective in the foreword from Francis Biddle, [1886-1968], the former U.S. Attorney General during WWII and the Nuremberg Trials, who once served as Holmes's law clerk. First edition. (illustrator).…