Foreword Robert Maciver (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second Edition stated. Clean, tight hardcover bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket is sunned with chipping at the spine ends and corner folds; presents well under mylar. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy in jacket. Illustrated and indexed. xxiii, 327pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1934. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 327 pp., bound in blue cloth with photo illustrated purple dust jacket, $3.00. Jacket spine sunned; tips, edges and spine rubbed; chipping along edges. Some age toning to paper; text edges dusty. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Second printing. (illustrator). Second printing. Berger, Morroe. MacIver, Robert M[orrison], [1882-1970], Foreword. Equality by Statute: Legal Controls Over Group Discrimination. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952. Second printing. xii, 238 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and front board. Moderate shelfwear and soiling. Interior clean. A very good copy. $45. * The book explores the relationship between law and social prejudice by examining how legislative and legal techniques can effectively reduce or even eradicate deeply rooted discriminatory habits and attitudes. Berger evaluates legal developments in the United States from the Reconstruction period through the early 1950s. He attempts to formulate general principles regarding the efficacy of law as a tool for controlling group discrimination and its impact on custom and public opinion.