The Notable Trials Library (9 results)

The Notable Trials Library, 1992. (illustrator). The Notable Trials Library, 1992. Bryson, John. Evil Angels. New York: Summit Books, [1985]. 560 pp. Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. Reprinted The Notable Trials Library, [1992]. Quarter-calf, gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, edges gilt, ribbon marker. Internally clean. A fine copy. $15. * The dramatic true story of a mother's worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia. On a camping trip at Ayer's Rock, the Chamberlain family's infant daughter disappeared in the middle of the night. Her distraught mother, Lindy, claimed she saw a dingo carry her off into the Australian outback. Two years later, their tragedy worsened when, without a murder weapon, a body, or even a motive, a jury convicted Lindy Chamberlain of killing her own daughter. The public cheered. John Bryson, a trial lawyer and award-winning journalist, deconstructs the factors that led to a seemingly reasonless incarceration and the public attitude that demanded it. With this book, he began to sway popular opinion in the Chamberlains' favor by discussing the failures on the part of the police, forensics team, and press. (Librarything).

The Notable Trials Library, 1996. (illustrator). The Notable Trials Library, 1996. Polenberg, Richard. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech. Viking Penguin Inc., [1987]. xiv, 431 pp. With New Introduction by Alan M.Dershowitz. Reprinted The Notable Trials Library, 1996. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Water stain to bottom text block edge, otherwise internally clean. A fine copy. $15. * Jacob Abrams et al. v. United States is the landmark Supreme Court case in the definition of free speech. Although the 1918 conviction of four Russian Jewish anarchists-for distributing leaflets protesting America's intervention in the Russian revolution-was upheld, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's dissenting opinion (with Justice Louis Brandeis) concerning "clear and present danger" has proved the touchstone of almost all subsequent First Amendment theory and litigation. In Fighting Faiths, Richard Polenberg explores the causes and characters of this dramatic episode in American history. He traces the Jewish immigrant experience, the lives of the convicted anarchists before and after the trials, the careers of the major players in the court cases-men such as Holmes, defense attorney Harry Weinberger, Southern Judge Henry DeLamar Clayton, Jr., and the young J. Edgar Hoover-and the effects of this important case on present-day First Amendment rights. (Amazon).

The Notable Trials Library, 1989. (illustrator). The Notable Trials Library, 1989. Hyde, H. Montgomery, Editor. The Trials of Oscar Wilde. Regina (Wilde) v. Queensbury. Regina v. Wilde and Taylor. London: William Hodge and Company, Limited, [1948]. 384 pp. With an introduction by Alan Dershowitz. Reprinted The Notable Trials Library, [1989]. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Internally clean. A fine copy. $20. * Convicted for sodomy, Wilde served his sentence at Reading Gaol, which inspired his essay "De Profundis" and his poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol.".

The Notable Trials Library, 1993. (illustrator). The Notable Trials Library, 1993. Watkins, Alan. A Slight Case of Libel: Meacher v Trelford and Others. Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd, 1990. viii, 241 pp. With New Introduction by Alan M. Dershowitz. Reprinted The Notable Trials Library, [1993]. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Internally clean. A fine copy. $20. * Alan Watkins had been writing a political column for twenty-five years (for the Sunday Express, the Spectator, the New Statesman and the Observer) when, in summer 1988, he found himself in the Law Courts accused of libel.

The Notable Trials Library, 1996. (illustrator). The Notable Trials Library, 1996. Roughead, William. Burke and Hare. London: William Hodge and Company, [1948]. Reprint. Notable Trials Library, 1996. Introduction Alan M. Dershowitz. xi, 412 pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Bookplate on front pastedown. Fine. $20. * Notable British Trials. New Enlarged General Edition. The trial of the most famous resurrection men in all of British history. They confessed to a minimum of sixteen murders, all of which were committed to supply the anatomists of Edinburgh with fresh cadavers.

The Notable Trials Library, 1991. (illustrator). The Notable Trials Library, 1991. Barrett, W.P. The Trial of Jeanne D'Arc. Translated into English from the Original Latin and French Documents by W.P. Barrett. [New York]: Gotham House, 1932. xiii, 544 pp. With new introduction by Alan Dershowitz. With an Essay On the Trial of Jeanne d'Arc and Dramatis Personae, Biographical Sketches of the Trial Judges and Other Persons Involved in the Maid's Career, Trial and Death by Pierre Champion. Translated from the French by Coley Taylor, Ruth H. Kerr. Illustrations by Frank P. Rennie. Reprinted The Notable Trials Library, [1991]. Quarter calf, extra gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Internally clean. A fine copy. $45. * The Trial of Joan of Arc, from the Notable Trials Library, Special Edition Copyright 1991. This is a re-issue of the 1932 translation by W.P. Barrett published by Gotham House, Incorporated. (Amazon).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket. 8vo pp. 565, bound in 1/4 gilt embossed black leather, AEG, silk marker, decorated eps, 5 raised bands. book.

Introductions by Alan M. Dershowitz (illustrator). Introductions by Alan M. Dershowitz. [Notable Trials Library]. A Collection of 26 titles, in 26 books from the Notable Trials Library. Gryphon Editions, 1989-2008. Introductions by Alan M. Dershowitz. All volumes quarter calf over cloth boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and ribbon page markers. Bookplates on front pastedowns, else fine. $450. Titles in this collection: 1. Bredin, Jean-Denis. The Affair. The Case of Alfred Dreyfus. New York, [1986]. Reprinted 2008. 2. Weinstein, Allen. Perjury. The Hiss-Chambers Case. New York, 1978. Reprinted 1995. 3. Farber, Myron. Somebody is Lying. The Story of Dr. X. New York, 1982. Reprinted 1994. 4. Carswell, Donald. The Trial of Guy Fawkes and Others. The Gunpowder Plot. London, [1934]. Reprinted 1991. 5. Muddiman, J.G. Trial of King Charles the First. Edinburgh, [1928]. Reprinted 1990. 6. Whipple, Sidney B. The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Garden City, 1937. Reprinted 1989. 7. Jordan, David P. The King's Trial. The French Revolution vs. Louis XVI. Berkeley, 1979. Reprinted 1993. 8. Mackenzie, F.A. Landru. London, [1928]. Reprinted 1995. 9. Howard, Benjamin C. A Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford. December Term, 1856. New York, 1857. Reprinted 1995. 10. Dershowitz, Alan M. Reversal of Fortune. Inside the Von Bulow Case. New York, 1986. Reprinted 1990. 11. Faux, Marian. Roe v. Wade. The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that made Abortion Legal. New York, 1988. Reprinted 1994. 12. Shore, W. Teignmouth. The Baccarat Case: Gordon-Cumming v. Wilson and Others. Edinburgh, [1932]. Reprinted 1992. 13. Fraenkel, Osmond K. The Sacco-Vanzetti Case. New York, 1931. Reprinted 1990. 14. Adler, Renata. Reckless Disregard. Westmoreland v. CBS et al.; Sharon v. Time. New York, 1986. Reprinted 1994. 15. Dinnerstein, Leonard. The Leo Frank Case. Together with the Tennessean Special News Section Sunday, March 7, 1982. Athens, 1987. Reprinted 1991. 16. Chipman, N.P. The Andersonville Prison Trial. The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz. San Francisco, 1911. Reprinted 1990. 17. Todd, A.L.

Introductions by Alan M. Dershowitz (illustrator). Introductions by Alan M. Dershowitz. [Notable Trials Library]. A Collection of 22 titles, in 22 books from the Notable Trials Library. Gryphon Editions, 1989-1996. Introductions by Alan M. Dershowitz. All volumes quarter calf over cloth boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and ribbon page markers. Bookplates on front pastedowns, else fine. $450. Titles in this collection: 1. Sullivan, Timothy. Unequal Verdicts. The Central Park Jogger Trials. [New York], [1992]. Reprinted 1994. 2. Schwartz, Bernard. Behind Bakke. Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court. New York, [1988]. Reprinted 1995. 3. Werner, M.R. Starr, John. Teapot Dome. New York, 1959. Reprinted 1993. 4. McKernan, Maureen. The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold and Loeb. Chicago, 1924. Reprinted 1989. 5. Dewitt, David Miller. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson. Seventeenth President of the United States. A History. New York, 1903. Reprinted 1992. 6. Smolla, Rodney A. Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt. New York, 1988. Reprinted 1991. 7. Invasion at Harper's Ferry. Report of the Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's Ferry. Washington, 1860. Reprinted 1993. 8. Finocchiaro, Maurice A. The Galileo Affair. A Documentary History. Berkeley, [1989]. Reprinted 1991. 9. Grover, David H. Debaters and Dynamiters. The Story of the Haywood Trial. Corvallis, [1964]. Reprinted, 1994. 10. Cowan, Geoffrey. The People v. Clarence Darrow. The Bribery Trial of America's Greatest Lawyer. New York, [1993]. Reprinted 1995. 11. Ungar, Sanford J. The Papers & the Papers. An Account of the Legal and Political Battle over the Pentagon Papers. New York, [1989]. Reprinted 1996. 12. Curtis, Charles P. The Oppenheimer Case. The Trial of a Security System. New York, 1955. Reprinted 1992. 13. Rutter, Owen. The Court-Martial of the Bounty Mutineers. Toronto, [1931]. Reprinted 1989. 14. Rembar, Charles. The End of Obscenity. The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Can.