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Melvin Belli My Life on Trial : an Autobiography
by Belli, Melvin M and Robert Blair Kaiser
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0688030858
- ISBN 13
- 9780688030858
- Seller
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Modesto, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Morrow. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. 4th Printing. Hardcover. 0688030858 . B&W Photographs; Signed edition. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription and date, on the front endpaper. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light rubbing and edge wear to the top spine end. "In his best-known case, Belli represented Jack Ruby, for free, after Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Belli attempted to prove that Ruby was legally insane and had a history of mental illness in his family. On Saturday, March 14, 1964, Ruby was convicted of "murder with malice", and received a death sentence. Immediately thereafter, Ruby and his siblings fired Belli as they also hired and fired several other lawyers during the case. In late 1966, Ruby's conviction was overturned with help from other defense lawyers on the grounds that he did not receive a fair trial and a retrial was scheduled outside of Dallas, but Ruby died of cancer before the retrial could take place. Belli became very critical of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A43400
- Title
- Melvin Belli My Life on Trial : an Autobiography
- Author
- Belli, Melvin M and Robert Blair Kaiser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0688030858
- ISBN 13
- 9780688030858
- Publisher
- Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0688030858, Autobiography, Melvin M. Belli, Robert Blair Kaiser, Signed Edition, The Law, Jack Ruby
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
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About S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.
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