The Bill of Rights.

HAND, Learned.

Item Number: 128914

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958.

First edition of this influential work which discusses the propriety of judicial efforts to expand the scope of the first ten amendments. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper, “To Girolamo Vitelli With my best wishes for himself and the cause in which he is engaged Learned Hand January 11, 1960.” The recipient, Girolamo Vitelli was a distinguished Italian Diplomat and friend of Hand’s. He was president of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, a UN agency that supervised decolonization from 1945 to 1994. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Learned Hand was one of the most significant American jurists of the twentieth century, Hand was a judge of the United States Southern District of New York from 1904-1924 and a judge of the Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, from 1924 to 1956.