[Rarebooks] fs-Legal Humor [II]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on the legal humor
and related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our
web site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word
or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  HINE, Reginald L.  Relics of an Un-Common Attorney.  Macmillan
Company, New York, 1951.  Original russet cloth, gilt, a very good
copy. [44927 M5XL21L37EL60EL71]                           $ 35.00

Hine's last work, published posthumously, collecting seventeen of
his essays; with a memoir and an index.

2.  HINE, Reginald.  Confessions of an Un-Common Attorney.  J.M.
Dent & Sons, London, 1946.  [19842 9XL26E]                $ 25.00

3.  HUTTON, W[illiam].  Courts of Requests: Their Nature,
Utility, and Powers Described, With a Variety of Cases,
Determined in That of Birmingham.  Printed by Pearson and
Rollason; and Sold by R. Baldwin [etc.], Birmingham, 1787.
Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, title and a few other leaves
repaired (not affecting the text), a bit dusty, else a good copy.
[71569] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71569 $ 850.00

An unusual account written by the "English Franklin", leavened with
humor and wisdom, describing the small claims court on which he
served, recounting in close-to-fable form some one hundred curious
and representative cases; with the half-title.

4.  JEAFFRESON, John Cordy.  Pleasantries of English Courts and
Lawyers.  James Cockcroft & Company, New York, 1876.  Original
brown embossed cloth, gilt, some wear, the top of the spine a bit
chipped, definite browning; a sound copy. [71696] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71696     $ 125.00

First American edition of Jeaffreson's smorgasboard of legal
anecdote and biography, written with a none-too-respectful yet
congenial style on such subjects as lawyers and ladies, legal
costume, circuit riding and dining, and the Lord Chancellors.

5.  KOMIE, Lowell B.  The Judge's Chambers and Other Stories.
Academy Chicago Publishers, Chicago, 1987.  [46579 L41L71]
                                                          $ 45.00

A baker's dozen short stories, loosely centered on the practice of
law in modern Chicago, likely to make you laugh or wince at the
truths made evident; highly enjoyable.

6.  LAMB, Arthur J. and Wilfrid Dennes.  Echoes from Shirley,
Being "Shirley's Leading Cases in the Common Law" in Verse.
Stevens & Sons Limited, 119 & 120 Chancery Law. Law Publishers,
London, 1913.  [71357]                                   $ 150.00

7.  [LEGAL SATIRE].  The Charge of J[ustice] P[age] to the Grand
Jury of M[iddlesex], on Saturday May 22, 1736.  London, 1737.
Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, attractive. [55117 L26L48]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=55117
                                                         $ 650.00

An artful and well-deserved satire of Sir Francis Page, known as
'the hanging judge' by his contemporaries, singled out in universal
disapproval by Pope both in the 'Dunciad' and his 'Imitations of
Horace', by Henry Fielding, and by Dr. Johnson.

8.  LIVINGSTONE, N.C. and Farrokh P. Jhabvala (eds.).  A
Collection of the Wit and Wisdom of Leo Gross.  Friends of the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Hull, 1976.  Printed stapled
wraps, well-preserved; unpaginated, but 16 pages, with a
frontispiece photograph of Professor Gross following the title.
[70692 L78]                                               $ 65.00

A lively, seemingly unrecorded collection of Professor Gross' bon
mots, apercus and other epigrammatic utterances, arranged
alphabetically, culled from his many decades teaching at the
Fletcher school; no copy located in OCLC, RLIN, or KVK.

9.  MEGARRY, Robert.  Arabinesque-at-Law.  Wildy & Sons Ltd,
London, 1969.  Original red cloth, gilt, a very good copy, in a
slightly worn and chipped dustjacket. [71383]             $ 65.00

The reissue of a rare work first appearing in 1843, later
publicized by Sir Frederick Pollock, and here expanded, recording
the humorous and eccentric remarks of Serjeant Arabin ("who seems
to have been a true original") while sitting as a judge.

10.  POLAK, A. Laurence.  Second Thoughts on Life, Law and
Letters.  Stevens and Sons, London, 1949.  Quite worn and
unevenly faded; a usable copy only. [18412 L21L32] $ 25.00

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