The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First Amendment

Anastaplo, George

Published by Southern Methodist University Press, 1971

About this Item

First Edition (Dallas, 1971). Dedicatory inscription by the author on front flyleaf (to the criminologist, and later Professor of Criminal Law, Michael H. Tonry). No textual markings or annotations. Page block edges lightly dusted. Rare unclipped dust jacket. Conspicuous edge wear, with sundry short closed tears and a sizable open tear to the back top edge, and with some further lioght rubbing. (Now in a protective plastic cover.) Red cloth with black titling to the spine and black decoration to the front and back. The boards remain in excellent condition, clean and tolerably sharp, with a light press to the spine head. xiii, 826pp. (A rare first edition copy of Anastaplo's "study of the Constitution of the United States, particulalrly the freedom of speech and of the press provision of the First Amendment," Professor Anastaplo's own celebrated conflict with the Illinois bar authorities and subsequent Supreme Court ruling ('In re Anastaplo') being discussed at length in an Appendix. The text is supplemented by 400 pages of endnotes.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First Amendment
• Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed