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New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. Inscribed by Cardozo, "To the Dear, Dear Mother." Cardozo, Benjamin N. [1870-1938]. The Paradoxes of Legal Science. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. v, 142, [1] pp. Original cloth, gilt title to spine, blind frames to boards, gilt Columbia University Press crest to center of front board. Light rubbing to extremities, Cardozo memorial bookplate to front pastedown, unsigned inscription in pencil, apparently in Cardozo's hand, to front free endpaper, light toning to text. $1,750. * First edition, first printing. One of Cardozo's most important books, The Paradoxes of Legal Science is a classic statement of juristic pragmatism. As Goodhart points out, it also reveals the non-legal sources, such as Greek philosophy, that informed his work. The bookplate was commissioned by Judge Irving Lehman, Cardozo's executor and close friend, to mark the books from Cardozo's library that were bequeathed to him. (Cardozo did not have a personal bookplate.) The inscription reads: "To the dear, dear Mother From the one who owes everything to her and loves her as befits the debt." It cannot be Cardozo's mother; she died when he was a child. We believe it is most certainly his older sister, Ellen Ida, "Nell" Cardozo, who was mostly responsible for his upbringing and was a maternal figure in his life. She died in 1929. Posner notes that Benjamin and Nell's relationship "was a good deal closer than that of an average sister and brother [it was] perhaps more like that of a mother and a son." Cardozo was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Hoover in 1932. Cardozo, along with left-leaning justices Harlan Fiske Stone and Louis Brandeis, formed the "Three Musketeers" and voted in favor of many New Deal policies. From 1932 to 1937, they faced off against the conservative "Four Horsemen," George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter, James Clark McReynolds and Pierce Butler. Lehman, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: A Memorial 18. Goodhart, The Jewish Lawyers of the Common Law 59-60. Posner, Cardozo: A Study in Reputation 5. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 72394
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