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THE PIG FARMER'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER TALES OF AMERICAN JUSTICE: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (2000). A book on how the law perpetuates myths of race, gender, and class by a former head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Berry examines "a century's worth of appellate cases, ranging from a nineteenth-century Alabama case in which a white woman was denied her divorce petition because an affair between a white man (her husband) and a black woman (his lover) was 'of no consequence,' to such recent, high-profile cases as the William Kennedy Smith and O.J. Simpson trials." Notes, index. 295 pp. ISBN: 0-375707468.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 83153More details Price: $13.50 -
INTERCEPTED: The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79387More details Price: $21.50 -
LET JUSTICE BE DONE: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco.
Edition: First edition.
Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nevada Studies in History and Political Science No. 28. The first study of the establishment and development of San Francisco's courts, police, and jails from the American conquest in 1846 through 1852, by a retired San Francisco police officer. Mullen concludes that "the legends of raging violent crime in early San Francisco are overblown. " Illustrated with reproductions of early engravings and photographs. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. xix, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-87417-1466.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52714More details Price: $20.00 -
A SUDDEN FEARFUL DEATH.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Fawcett Columbine, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 4th Victorian mystery featuring William Monk, now a private enquiry agent and nurse Hester Latterly - a story involving the brutal murder in a London hospital of a young woman who had been one of Florence Nightingale's nurses in the Crimean War. SIGNED on title page by the author. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-449-90637x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84971More details Price: $35.00 -
25 TO LIFE: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (2002). First edition - The true stories of a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice judge and her account of years on the bench, behind the courtroom trials, and how her rulings have placed a permanent stamp on the legal system. 338 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy wrappers.
Book ID: 61285More details Price: $18.50