THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JUSTICE HOLMES: 3 Volumes by Novick, Sheldon M. (ed.) - 1995

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. F/VG; First edition, first printing; Fine in gray quarter cloth titled in maroon over maroon boards titled in silver, maroon endpapers; in a Very Good slipcase illustrated with photo of Justice Holmes, rubbed at corners and edges. The Holmes Devise Memorial Edition, with foreword by Erwin Griswold. Volume 1 contains "youthful works" - undergraduate essays, addresses and poems, Civil War poems and obituaries - and articles, comments, book notices and case digests from The American Law Review. Volume 2 contains Holmes' notes to Kent's Commentaries, comprising 68 lectures on the law of nations, the government and constitutional jurisprudence of the United States, the various sources of the municipal law of the several states, the law concerning the rights of persons, the law concerning personal property, and the law concerning real property. Volume 3 contains articles written in preparation for The Common Law, The Common Law itself, later writings, speeches, and uncollected and unpublished addresses.. First Edition. Hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.