92 pp., xi. First published with a course of lectures called "Equity" in 1909 and reprinted 7 times; first published separately in 1936, then reprinted 3 times up to 1954 (this copy). Navy cloth with brilliantgilt-stamped lettering on spine. Toned dustwrapper not price-clipped ("10s. 6d. net") with browned spine (all lettering still bold and eminently readable); 1/2" tear at lower left front cover; trapezoidal piece missing (less than a 1" x 1/2" square) at top right front cover corner, extending across top spine; thin piece missing across lower spine; tan spot stain near midpoint of left front cover edge (gutter); liquid dampstain in lower left corner front cover (Barely detectable on outside front cover, with very slightest of hint of blue from book cover inside dw ( book itself even less than barely shows evidence of dampstain; tiny tips of spine are light blue (barely) diminished from Navy) describes worse than it is; NOW in Brodart mylar which forgives sins graciously. Book itself has tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls). Previous owner name is in elegant penmanship across top center ffep, that of distinguished scholar and author (from Wikpedia), "John Robert Martindale [who] is a British academic historian, specializing in the later Roman and Byzantine empires", whose works include The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire 2 Part Set and Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire I, 641-867. Solid copy. The way to read a Classic of British Legal History and Politics.

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Title: The Forms of Action at Common Law: A Course of Lectures by F.W. Maitland (from the Personal Library of J. R Martindale, with his ownership signature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, London New York
Publication Date: 1954
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Retired academic's reference library with specialization in philosophy, religion, science, and mathematics--all scholarly subject areas; Pre-Socratics to contemporary; biographies; some series collections. General stock also, including fiction, poetry, literary criticism, mysteries, some foreign language, children's, history, sociology, psychology, education. Some signed copies.

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