Mellinkoff David (67 results)

Condition: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. First edition / 1st Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Very good. this is a small pamphlet that contains a short biography of Robert Vosper. 14 x 20. soft cover. 8pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.55.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Octavo; xiv, 526 pages, wrappers "This book tells what the language of the law is, how it got that way and how it worked out in the practice." - Preface. " We now hae a full-scale study of our legal language that is writtenwith an extraordinary awareness of vacuous words and phrases and an astounding amount of research into their history and usage . This book has a practical value to every lawyer who drafts a document, a pleading, or even a letter." - Ray D. Henson in the American Bar Association Journal.

Condition: good. Used book in good and clean conditions. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks. Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, 2nd Printing (1975). Published by West Publishing Co., 1973. Octavo. Pictorial boards. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Cover has light shelf wear. Very fine cope of this look into the practice of law. 304 pages. ISBN: 0314284028. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Paperback. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4th Edition. US hardback fourth impression. Good overall, but with a number of corner tips folded inward as 'bookmarks'. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Book looks and feels near unread. An excellent copy overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.

Paperback. New book. Previously published by West Publishing Co., 1992. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon. 810 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.3.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.3.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "St. Paul, MN: Mellinkoff's Dictionary of American Legal Usage, 1992, Hard Cover no DJ. First Edition (No Additional Printings Indicated). Large 8vo 6.6x10 inches, 703 pp. SIGNED and presented by the author on the FFEP dated 11-18-92 to the UCLA reference librarian. Brown cloth covers with gold type inside of a red ink block are clean and straight, edges and corners are sharp. Pages are clean with no additional names or markings, not Ex-Library. Overall a very nice copy, with minimal signs of use. Book condition: Fine no DJ. Books are carefully packaged and shipped in a box."This is a dictionary of the language of the law as used in America today. Most of this dictionary is written in ordinary English.". Signed by Author.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Writing inside. (Law, Lawyers).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The finest copy that you may find of a first edition of this quality. A well preserved Dust Jacket in a mylar cover no marks inside. The blue cloth cover is NF and pristine condition. 526pp.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Green leatherette with gilt lettering and rules. x, 304pp. Very good. Binding faintly edgeworn only; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on rear flyleaf; a dozen or less pages with inked underlining and margin squiggles. A tight and nice first edition of this memoir and essays by a notable long-time UCLA law professor (1915-99) whose influential 1963 work "Language of the Law" began a lifelong crusade to remove gobbledygook from legalese and simplify and improve legal grammar. Rather scarce, and this copy features a fine decorative-edged bookplate on front flyleaf signed boldly in black ballpoint by legal eagle F. Lee Bailey (1933-2021), criminal defense attorney famed for representing Sam Sheppard, Albert DeSalvo, Patty Hearst, O.J. Simpson and other celebrity clients.

Hardcover. Condition: Like new. Like New hardcover. Green leatherette with bright gilt lettering. No marks or names inside.

Mellinkoff, David. The Language of the Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1963. First edition. xiv, 526 pp. Original cloth very good in worn and chipped dust jacket. Pristine text. Desirable. $250. * First edition. This classic study is both an analysis of legal language and its history and a call to reform legal usage. It is equally appealing for its erudition, wit and elegance. The reader will conclude this book with an enhanced appreciation of well-crafted prose and a keener awareness of its power.