Prejudice and Property: An Historic Brief Against Racial Covenants

First edition. Octavo. 104pp. Introduction by Wesley McCune. Slightly spine cocked at the spine head, minor wear on the bottom edge, else a fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with a toned and faintly dampstained spine, and slight loss at the corners. Inscribed on the front fly by co-author and U.S. Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman: "To Philip Elman, who is entitled to a large share of the credit[?] for this historic briefPhilip B. Perlman, Solicitor General." Philip Elman was an assistant to the Solicitor General from 1944 to 1961, best known as the author of the government's brief in Brown v. Board of Education. From the introduction, by Wesley McCune: "It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of the legal cases which moved the Justice Department to prepare this brief. The fundamental question at stake is whether the courts should enforce real estate agreements that bar a mana fellow citizenfrom occupying this house or that because of the color of his skin or of the nature of his religious beliefs. Surprisingly enough, this private legal system was not put squarely before the Supreme Court until this year." An important association.…