The Pure Theory of Law

by Hans Kelsen, Max Knight

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. First American edition, first printing. x, 356 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a bright clean dust jacket with a tiny dimple in the front gutter. A lovely copy of the rare first appearance in English of a very influential work of modernist legal theory. It was first published in the original German in 1934 as Reine

• Printing: first

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