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JURGEN AND THE LAW, by Guy Holt

Hall Code
Description
E6
First Printing 1923

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COMPILATION

Full Title:

Title page recto: [all enclosed in a red single ruled box] [in italic] JURGEN AND | THE LAW | [red single rule] | A STATEMENT | With Exhibits, including the Court's Opinion, and | the Brief for the Defendants on Motion | to Direct an Acquittal | EDITED BY | GUY HOLT | [McBride Liberty Bell device] | [red single rule] |NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1923 (see image above).

Title page verso: Copyright, 1922, by | Robert M. McBride & Co. | [rule] | [in italic] Printed in the | United States of America | [rule] Published, January, 1923 (see image above).

Publication:

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company; 1923

Collation:

Thin octavo [21.5 cm. (8½-in.) x 14.4 cm. (5⅝-in.)]; 78 + 1 blank leaf. (1) half-title; (2) limitation; (3) title page; (4) publication data; (5) fly title: JURGEN AND THE LAW | A STATEMENT (verso blank); 7-16 text of STATEMENT by Guy Holt; (17) fly-title: BRIEF FOR THE DEFENDANTS ON | MOTION TO DIRECT AN | AQUITTAL; (18) INDEX; 19-69 text of BRIEF (verso blank); (70) fly-title: DECISION OF JUDGE CHARLES C. NOTT | IN PEOPLE VS. HOLT, McBRIDE | & CO., ET AL (verso blank); 73-74 text of DECISION; (75) fly-title: STATUTES RELATING TO THE PUBLICA- | TION, SALE, ETC. OF OBSCENE | LITERATURE (verso blank); 77-78 text of STATUTES; 1 blank leaf. Pp. (5), (17), (71), and (75) are fly-titles. Pp. (6), (70), (72), (76), and the final leaf are blank.

Binding:

Kalki binding: brown cloth; gilt lettering and decorations on spine and front cover; top trimmed, else untrimmed. Spine: [lettered down in italic] JURGEN AND THE LAW. Front cover: [Kalki device at lower right] (see image above).

Limitation:

[in italic] This edition is limited to one thou- | sand and eighty numbered copies, of | which one thousand are for sale. | Copy Number [undelined, stamped in red] 670 (see image above).

Dust jacket:

Heavy dark green paper lettered and decorated in black on spine and front panel only. Rear panel and flaps are blank (see image above).

Spine: [lettered down] JURGEN AND THE LAW [bottom of spine] McBRIDE

Front panel: [all enclosed in a single ruled box] JURGEN | AND THE LAW | [lower right: Kalki device]

Notes:

Guy Holt's summation and vindication of the Jurgen controversy.