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Lot 40

The Notable Trials Library, 174 Leather-Bound Volumes (1989-2020)

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500
Starting Bid
$750

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174 volumes of the Notable Trials Library, published by Gryphon Editions (Omaha) between 1989 and 2020. Each volume is bound in gilt leather. An incredible collection, each volume in the series typically retails $65. Slight variations in size, but on average the books measure approximately 9" x 6". Three additional similar legal volumes are also included, bringing the total number of beautifully leather-bound books to 177, listed here:

 

  1. A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger, Printer of The New York Weekly Journal by James Alexander - 1989
  2. The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin - 1989
  3. The Amazing Crime and Trial of Leopold & Loeb by Marueen McKernan - 1989
  4. The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators by Ben Pitman - 1989
  5. The Court - Martial of the Bounty Mutineers by Owen Rutter - 1989
  6. The Lindbergh Kidnapping: The Trial of Bruno Richard Hauptman - Sidney B. Whipple (editor) - 1989
  7. The Trial of Lizzie Borden With a History of the Case by Edmund Pearson - 1989
  8. The Trials of Oscar Wilde - H. Montgomery Hyde (editor) - 1989
  9. Report of the Trial of Professor John W. Webster, Indicted for the Murder of Doctor George Parkman by James W. Stone - 1990
  10. Reversal of Fortune : Inside The Von Bulow Case by Alan M. Dershowitz - 1990
  11. The Andersonville Prison Trial / The Trial of Captain Henry Wirz by General N. P. Chipman - 1990
  12. The Mignonette Case: Regina Vs. Dudley and Stephens - 1990
  13. The Nuremberg Trial by John and Ann Tusa - 1990
  14. The Sacco - Vanzetti Case by Osmond K. Fraenkel - 1990
  15. The Scopes Trial: The World's Most Famous Trial - Tennessee Evolution Case - 1990
  16. Trial of King Charles the First - J. G. Muddiman (editor) - 1990
  17. Gideon's Trumpet by Anthony Lewis - 1991
  18. Jerry Falwell Vs. Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial by Rodney A. Smolla - 1991
  19. The End of Obscenity: The Trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill by Charles Rembar - 1991
  20. The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History by Maurice A. Finocchiaro - 1991
  21. The Leo Frank Case / The Tennessean Special News Section Sunday, March 7, 1982 by Leonard Dinnerstein - 1991
  22. The Trial of Bernhard Goetz: A Crime of Self Defense by Osmond K. Fraenkel - 1991
  23. The Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen - Filson Young (editor) - 1991
  24. Evil Angels: The Dingo Took My Baby Trial by John Bryson - 1992
  25. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648 to 1706 by George Lincoln Burr - 1992
  26. The Baccarat Case: Gordon-Cumming Vs. Wilson and Others - W. Teignmouth Shore (editor) - 1992
  27. The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson by David Miller Dewitt - 1992
  28. The Oppenheimer Case: The Trial of a Security System by Chares P. Curtis - 1992
  29. The Queen Vs. Louis Riel - 1992
  30. The Trial of Aaron Burr by J. J. Coombs - 1992
  31. The Trial of Captain Kidd - Graham Brooks (editor) - 1992
  32. The Trial of Ezra Pound: A Documented Account of the Treason Case by the Defendant's Lawyer by Julien Cornell - 1992
  33. The Trial of Jack Ruby by John Kaplan and Jon R. Waltz - 1992
  34. A Slight Case of Libel: Meacher Vs. Trelford and Others by Alan Watkins - 1993
  35. Justice on Trial: The Case of Louis D. Brandeis by A. L. Todd - 1993
  36. Teapot Dome by John Starr and W. R. Werner - 1993
  37. The King's Trial: The French Revolution Vs. Louis XVI by David P. Jordan - 1993
  38. The My Lai Inquiry by W. R. Peers - 1993
  39. The Official Report of the Trial of Sarah Jane Robinson for the Murder of Prince Arthur Freeman by Gerald Langford - 1993
  40. The Trial of Thomas More - E.E. Reynolds
  41. Debaters and Dynamiters: The Story of the Haywood Trial by David H. Grover - 1994
  42. Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland Vs. CBS et al.; Sharon by Renata Adler - 1994
  43. Report of the Select Committee of the Senate to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's Ferry - 1993
  44. Simple Justice: The history of Brown Vs. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger - 1994
  45. Somebody is Lying: The Story of Dr. X by Myron Farber - 1994
  46. The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone - 1994
  47. The Trial of William Joyce - J. W. Hall (editor) - 1994
  48. Unequal Verdicts: The Central Park Jogger Trials - Timothy Sullivan
  49. Behind Bakke : Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court by Bernard Schwartz - 1995
  50. Case of Dred Scott verses John F.A. Sandford, 1856 by Benjamin C. Howard - 1995
  51. Landru by F. A. Mackenzie - 1995
  52. Perjury The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein - 1995
  53. The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Case: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Vs. Sawyer, The Steel Seizure Decision by Alan F. Westin - 1995
  54. The Murder of Herodes and Other Trials from the Athenian Law Courts by Kathleen Freeman - 1995
  55. The People Vs. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America's Greatest Lawyer by Geoffrey Cowan - 1995
  56. The Trial of Madame Caillaux by Edward Berenson - 1995
  57. The Trial of the U2: Court Proceedings of the Case of Francis Gary Powers - 1995
  58. Bending The Law: The Story of the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy by Richard B. Sobol - 1996
  59. Burke and Hare by William Roughead - 1996
  60. Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech by Richard Polenberg - 1996
  61. Report of the Trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant by Edgar Peixotto - 1996
  62. The Murder of Stanford White by Gerald Langford - 1996
  63. The Papers and the Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers by Sanford J. Ungar - 1996
  64. The Trial of Bukharin by George Katkov - 1996
  65. The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau by Charles E. Rosenberg - 1996
  66. Eden Versus Whistler: The Baronet & the Butterfly, A Valentine with a Verdict - 1997
  67. Report of the Case of George C. Hersey by James M. W. Yerrinton - 1997
  68. The Abuse of Innocence: The McMartin Preschool Trial by Paul and Shirley Eberle - 1997
  69. The Trial of Martin Luther King by Alan F. Westin & Barry Mahoney - 1997
  70. The Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting at the Presidential Election in November 1972 - 1997
  71. The Trial of the Templars by Malcolm Barber - 1997
  72. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Schooner Savannah by A. F. Warburton - 1997
  73. Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb by Bernard Lefkowitz - 1998
  74. The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York Vs. Lumumba Shakur et al. by Murray Kempton - 1998
  75. The Great Conspiracy Trial: An Essay on Law, Liberty and the Constitution by Jacob Epstein - 1998
  76. The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln by Mark Neely, Jr. and E. Gerald McMurtry - 1999
  77. The Rosenberg File: A Search for Truth by Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton - 1999
  78. Un-American Activities: The Trials of William Remington by Gary May - 1999
  79. Voltaire & the Calas Case by Edna Nixon - 1999
  80. A Chair for Wayne Lonergan by Hamilton Darby Perry - 2000
  81. Red Scare in Court: New York versus the International Workers Order by Arthur J. Sabin - 2000
  82. The "Counterfeit" Man: The True Story of the Boorn-Colvin Murder Case by Gerald W. McFarland - 2000
  83. The Life, Trial, and Death of Francisco Ferrer by William Archer - 2000
  84. The Scottsboro Case by Dan T. Carter - 2000
  85. A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven by Cynthia B. Herrup - 2001
  86. Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials by John W. Sayer - 2001
  87. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 by Frederic Kidder - 2001
  88. Ten Rillington Place by Ludovic Kennedy - 2001
  89. The Impeachment & Trial of President Clinton by Merrill McLoughlin - 2001
  90. The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth by Max Radin - 2001
  91. The Trial of Queen Caroline by Roger Fulford - 2001
  92. The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Bush Vs. Gore Presidential Election by Howard Gillman - 2001
  93. A Rumor of Revolt: The "Great Negro Plot" by Thomas J. Davis - 2002
  94. Coals of Fire: The Alton Telegraph Libel Case by Thomas B. Littlewood - 2002
  95. Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts by John C. Miller - 2002
  96. The Great Lobster War by Ron Formisano - 2002
  97. The Trial of the Duchess of Kingston - Lewis Melville (editor) - 2002
  98. Deliberate Intent: a Lawyer Tells the True Story of Murder by the Book by Rod Smolla - 2003
  99. Eight Men Out: The Chicago Blacksox Case by Eliot Asinof and Stephen Jay Gould - 2003
  100. Lessons from the Trial: The People Vs. O. J. Simpson by Gerald F. Uelmen - 2003
  101. Lost Love; True Story of Passion, Murder and Justice in Old New York by George Cooper - 2003
  102. Royal Mail Case: Rex Vs. Lord Kylsant, & Another - Collin Brooks (editor) - 2003
  103. The Billy Mitchell Affair by Burke Davis - 2003
  104. The Bloody Assizes - J. G. Muddiman (editor) - 2004
  105. The Greer Case: A True Court Drama by David W. Peck - 2004
  106. The Irving Judgment: David Irving Vs. Penguin Books and Professor Deborah Lipstadt - 2004
  107. The Poison Tree: A True Story of Family Violence and Revenge by Alan Prendergast - 2004
  108. The Power to Harm by John Cornwell - 2004
  109. How Charles Bravo Died: The Chronicle of a Cause Celebre by Yseult Bridges - 2005
  110. Poison Widows: A True Story of Witchcraft, Arsenic, and Murder by George Cooper - 2005
  111. The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey - 2005
  112. The Trial of Patrolman Thomas Shea by Thomas Hauser - 2005
  113. The Unlawful Concert: An Account of the Presidio Mutiny Case by Fred Gardner - 2005
  114. To an Unknown God: Religious Freedom on Trial by Garrett Epps - 2005
  115. Trial of Oscar Slater - William Roughead (editor) - 2005
  116. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle - 2006
  117. Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson & the Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler - 2006
  118. Contempt of Court: The Turn-of-the-Century Lynching that Launched 100 Years of Federalism by Mark Curriden and Leroy Phillips - 2006
  119. Judgement at Gallatin: The Trial of Frank James by Gerard S. Petrone - 2006
  120. The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan - 2006
  121. The People Vs. Big Tobacco: How The States Took on The Big Tobacco Giants by Carrick Mollenkamp - 2006
  122. A Black and White Case: How Affirmative Action Survived Its Greatest Legal Challenge - 2007
  123. Scapegoats of The British Empire: The Trial of Breaker Morant by George Witton - 2007
  124. The Smoking Gun by Gerry Spence - 2007
  125. The Trial of Charles Manson by George Bishop - 2008
  126. The Trial of Rattenbury and Stoner - 2008
  127. The Boys from New Jersey: How the Mob Beat the Feds by Robert Rudolph - 2009
  128. The Sterilization of Carrie Buck - 2009
  129. The United States Vs. I Lewis Libby by Murray Waas and Jeff Lomanaco - 2009
  130. The Mooney Case by Richard H. Frost - 2010
  131. The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed by Graveline and Clemens with a special introduction by Alan Dershowitz - 2010
  132. The Trial of Captain Porteous with a special introduction by Alan Dershowitz - 2010
  133. Who Killed Mr. Crittenden? The Laura D. Fair Case by Kenneth Lamott - 2011
  134. The Eichmann Trial - Deborah Lipstadt
  135. Heavy Justice: The Trial of Mike Tyson by Randy Roberts and J. Gregory Garrison - 2012
  136. The Forgotten Terrorist: Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy - Mel Ayton
  137. The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial That Changed South Africa - Joel Joffe
  138. Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America - Ethan Bronner
  139. Cicero Murder Trials - 2013
  140. Trials of Intimacy: Love and Loss in the Beecher - Tilton Scandal by Richard Wightman Fox - 2013
  141. Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein - Newton and Scharf
  142. A Death in Italy: The Definitive Account of the Amanda Knox Case - John Follain
  143. Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case - Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson
  144. Fear No Evil, signed edition - Natan Sheransky
  145. Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America by Howard Bingham and Max Wallace - 2014
  146. Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy by Howard Jones - 2014
  147. Special Effects: Disaster at "Twilight Zone" The Tragedy and the Trial by Ron LaBreque - 2014
  148. The Trial of Adolf Beck by Eric R. Watson - 2014
  149. The Trial of Marshal Ney by Harold Kurtz - 2014
  150. The War Against Al Capone: Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders by Dennis E. Hoffman - 2014
  151. Hitler and the Beer Hall Putsch - Harold Gordon
  152. Slave of Allah, Zacarias Moussaoui vs. The USA - Katherine C. Donahue
  153. Jim Bakker: Miscarriage of Justice? - James A. Albert
  154. Every Knee Shall Bow: The Truth and Tragedy of Ruby Ridge and the Randy Weaver Family by Jess Walter - 2015
  155. I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation by Bruce Chadwick - 2015
  156. Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson by Keith Ablow (signed by author) - 2015
  157. Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era by John Heilemann - 2015
  158. Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision that Legalized Racism by Harvey Fireside - 2015
  159. The Court-Martial of Mother Jones by Edward M. Steel, Jr. - 2015
  160. The Perfect Villain: The Case of Jack Abramoff by Gary Chafetz - 2015
  161. Undue Influence: The Epic Battle for the Johnson & Johnson Fortune by David Margolick - 2015
  162. The Trial of Martin Luther - Abdel Ross Wentz
  163. A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports by Brad Snyder - 2016
  164. Sacred Bond: The Legacy of Baby M by Phyllis Chesler (signed by author) introduction by Alan Dershowitz - 2016
  165. The Death and Life of Malcolm X by Peter Goldman - 2016
  166. The Trial of George Zimmerman "If I Had a Son” by Jack Cashill - 2016
  167. Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed, and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh - 2016
  168. Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial - John Evangelist Walsh
  169. Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams - 2017
  170. The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court by Cliff Sloan and David McKean - 2017
  171. Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent - Harvey Silvergate
  172. Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony: A Psychological Portrait by Keith Ablow (signed by author) - 2018
  173. Teddy Roosevelt & The Marquette Libel Trial - Mikel Classen
  174. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith by Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill - 2020
  175. *Major Legal Systems in the World Today - David and Brierley - 1985 - published as part of Gryphon Editions' Legal Classics series
  176. *Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes - Sheldon Novick - 1989 - published as part of Gryphon Editions' Legal Classics series
  177. *The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, signed edition- Robert Bork - 1990 - published by The Free Press

Condition

Overall very good to excellent condition, with some variation between volumes. Many of the volumes are unread, some even still in plastic shrink-wrap.

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