Herbert Hon (208 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 368 Pages Illus., Dust Jacket Edge Wear O/W Sound.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Hardcover. 713 pages. Contains some black & white portraits. Front hinge cracked. Some tears along rear hinge. Rubbing to extremities. Spine faded. Soiling to covers. Bookseller's label on front end paper. Record # 508976.

Condition: Very Good. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with some shelf wear, some edge wear to spine, foxing to page edges. Inscribed by previous owner on inside cover, otherwise clear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Mild wear to book and jacket. xxiv, 64 pp + 8 pp of black and white photos related to the last chapter (Twelfth Night). Each chapter is illustrated with un-numbered pages of black and white photos. A photographic record of the first five seasons at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. A lengthy Introduction of 21 pages precedes the pictorial record of the festival, organized in chapters by play. Alec Guinness starred in the plays from the first festival in 1953: King Richard III and All's Well That Ends Well. Other actors of note found in the credits include Christopher Plummer, Lorne Greene, a young William Shatner, and James Mason.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Very Good. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex Libris with usual markings. Clean copy with some shelf wear, some edge wear to spine, foxing to page edges. Inscribed by previous owner on inside cover, otherwise clear. . . . .

HADLEY, Hon. Herbert S. ADDRESS OF HON. HERBERT S. HADLEY AT A MEETING OF THE KANSAS CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, APRIL 19, 1913. Kansas City, Missouri: Kansas City Historical Society, 1913. 8vo., printed wraps. First Edition. Very Good (few creases, one tear right edge front panel). $15.00.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. A lightly used library copy, tight and clean, but suffering a bit from old age. The top of the spine has a few tears and the spine is faded with a shelving spot. Most of the sepia colored engravings have an embossed library stamp. Volume 2 only. 355 pages including the index. Red cloth covers, hinges intact, a library plate inside the front cover. There was not a pocket. A fairly nice copy. email or call if you have questions, we respond cheerfully. Priority/international shipping may cost more than quoted due to size of book.

Wraps. Condition: Fair. n.p.: n.p., (1916). First Edition. Original wraps. 31 pages. Frontispiece. Fair.Some wear; a few notes and stains; worn. Scarce sketches of the life of an important jurist by important members of the bar. Lemuel Shaw (January 9, 1781 March 30, 1861) was an American jurist who served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (18301860). Prior to his appointment he also served for several years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and as a state senator. In 1847, Shaw became the father-in-law of author Herman Melville. He ruled on prominent cases involving slavery, segregation, and religion. Admitted to the bar in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, in September 1804, and in Plymouth County, Massachusetts that November, Shaw began practice in Boston. When his associate left Boston after being acquitted of murder in a political quarrel, he practiced alone for fifteen years. In about 1822, Shaw took Sidney Bartlett, an able trial lawyer, as his junior partner. His practice gradually became large, but he was less known as an advocate than as the adviser of important commercial enterprises. Portrait photograph In politics, Shaw was first a Federalist and later a Webster Whig, but remained all his life a free-trader. He attended Unitarian services, though he was never a communicant. Fond of entertaining and dining out, he was simple and affectionate in his home life, his interest in the social events of his household extending to the minutest details. Shaw was prepared for his judicial career by numerous public positions. He was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, serving in 181114, 1820 and 1829, and as a state senator in 182122. He served as a member of the constitutional convention of 1820. He also held many offices in Boston. Shaw was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1823. In 1822, with few precedents to guide him, he drafted the first charter of the city, which lasted until 1913. On the death of Chief Justice Isaac Parker, Governor Levi Lincoln offered Shaw an appointment as chief justice. Daniel Webster successfully urged Shaw to accept, though it meant giving up a practice of $15,000 to $20,000 a year for a salary of $3,500. And for this, if nothing else, Webster later thought the public owed him a debt of gratitude. Shaw's commission was issued on August 30, 1830. He served for almost exactly 30 years, resigning on August 21, 1860. During his tenure as Chief Justice, Shaw is reported to have heard between 2,000 and 2,200 cases[by whom?]. Many would help shape American law and jurisprudence. His exceptionally long judicial career coincided with the development of many important industries and, coincidentally, Shaw made law on such matters as water power, railroads, and other public utilities. Some commentators have argued that Shaw had more influence on the development of American law than any other state court judge in the country's history.[2] Shaw's opinions were not often readily quotable and are instead recognized for solid reasoning. "His words had weight rather than brilliancy or eloquence."[3] His reputation as a jurist lies mostly in the substance of his work, as opposed to the literary quality of his writings for the court. In Shaw's time on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the chief justice often sat at trials. In the role of a trial judge, he was considered to be thorough, systematic, and patient. He was also renowned for his ability to clearly instruct juries. Slavery and civil rights Because of Boston's strong abolitionist movement, Shaw oversaw numerous cases related to slave law and race. In 1836, Shaw's opinion in Commonwealth v. Aves held that a slave brought voluntarily into Massachusetts, a free state, was a "sojourner," or a journeyer, and not taking domicile in that state. Therefore, slaves could be brought into the state only for a limited time. Abolitionists, who had brought the habeas corpus suit, wanted a rule which would have freed the girl, while southern defenders of the practice wanted the court to uphold the concept of comity and acknowledge the legality of slavery. Shaw attempted to split the decision by applying the archaic "sojourner" status to slaves. Further, Shaw rejected the doctrine of interstate comity. In his strict understanding, comity is a vehicle for facilitating trade and amicable interactions between jurisdictions. Therefore, Shaw reasoned that a state or jurisdiction is not required to honor comity if in doing so it is sanctioning practices repugnant to the state's own norms. The Aves case caused an uproar in the South where planters accused the Northerners of denying their equal sovereign status. Shaw also drew criticism from conservative jurists in other Northern states, as in State v. Post (N.J. 1845). His ruling in favor of the constitutionality of school segregation in Roberts v. City of Boston (1849) established "separate but equal" as a legal doctrine in the state. In a later case, he again refused to release fugitive slave Thomas Sims on habeas corpus grounds, as he felt bound by the Constitution and the law, as the recent Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required states and local governments to cooperate in the capture of escaped slaves. Sims' Case was the first by any court in the United States to uphold the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act.--wikipedia. .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Illustrated. Aldous Huxley "Usually Destroyed" / Evelyn Waugh "An Open Letter To The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd (Nancy Mitford)" / Herbert Luthy "'Algeria Does Not Exist'" / Isaiah Berlin "A Marvellous Decade (III)" / Elizabeth Hardwick "Portrait Of A New York Lady" / Stephen Spender "Notes From A Diary" Robert Jungle "Letter From Geneva" / Dwight Macdonald "Letter from Italy".

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Journal of The Historical Association; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Edinburgh. Good with no dust jacket; Soft Cover; His Majesty's Stationery Office; 1937. Cream soft cover wraps with black lettering. Good, toning, chipping to edges. Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings. Includes several black and white illustrations, 158 pages; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Good with no dust jacket; Soft Cover; His Majesty's Stationery Office; 1937.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. green cover 45pp. Pamphlet.

Condition: Fair. 272 pages. No dust jacket. Green pictorial cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has been laminated.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo, 713 pages, index, illustrated. Some foxing but mainly to endpapers and preliminaries, gilt lettering on spine dulled.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Thus. pp VIII, 216. 1st printing. DJ spine sun faded.

Hardcover Published September 1932, Reprinted October 1932. A Vol. of reminiscences. The frontispiece is of Sir Herbert Maxwell, 1913. (366 Pgs.) Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Loose hinge and yellowing, otherwise VVG.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket, as Issued. 1st Edition. 78 pages. 165 x 105 mm. The First Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture. Considers the claim that Judaism resembles Germanism . Pages still uncut. Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was an English-born humourist and writer. He dedicated his life to championing the cause of the oppressed. He wrote a very influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892). The use of the metaphorical phrase melting pot to describe American absorption of immigrants was popularised by Zangwill's play The Melting-Pot, a hit in the United States in 1908-1909. He also wrote mystery works, such as The Big Bow Mystery (1892) and social satire such as The King of Schnorrers (1894). He was also involved in politics as an assimilationist, an early Zionist, a territorialist, a feminist and a pacifist. His other works include: Without Prejudice (1896), The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes (1903), Merely Mary Ann (1903) and The Forcing House (1922). with a foreword by by the Right Hon Herbert Samuel MA MP and an afterward by Israel Abraham. the first "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday 1918; first edition.

Condition: Good. 1924. Hardcover. Ex-libris with usual markings. In original cloth without dustwrapper. Clean copy with minor nicks and bumps on cover, light foxing to ffep and title page but remains a good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Stamp on front cover, otherwise without flaw. The 1937 Official Guide of The Palace of Holyroodhouse, Abbey & Environs with a Historical Sketch, fold-out map of the grounds, floor plans, black/white photographs, and local advertisements. 5 X 7" 158 pages (1937).

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