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Built by Association: Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow’s inscribed copy (to “Pearle” M. Ball) of his first book, A Persian Pearl (1899). At John King Books in Detroit, I discovered an...
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Built by Association: Lord Brougham
Lord Brougham’s signed copy of Law of Elections (1818) by Arthur Male. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), was a British...
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Built by Association: Lindley Murray
Lindley Murray’s English Grammar (8th ed. 1802) inscribed (to Samuel Miller) by “the author.” Lindley Murray is best known as “the father of English...
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Built by Association: Judge Learned Hand
Judge Learned Hand’s inscribed copy (to Judge Edward Lumbard) of his book The Bill of Rights (1958). Learned Hand graduated from Harvard College in...
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Built by Association: Judge Jerome Frank
Judge Jerome Frank’s inscribed copy (to Learned Hand) of his book Fate and Freedom: A Philosophy for Free Americans (1945). Jerome Frank (1889-1957)...