BELLI, MELVIN M AND ROBERT BLAIR KAISER

Melvin Belli My Life on Trial : An Autobiography

New York, NY: Morrow, 1976. 4th Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 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. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 43400

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: 0688030858 Autobiography Melvin M. Belli Robert Blair Kaiser Signed Edition The Law Jack Ruby

GILBERT, REGINE

A Refuge from New York in the Enchanted Island of Palm Beach

New York: Vantage Press, 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0533011043. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is noticeable rubbing to the bottom spine end and some light bumping. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The dust jacket has noticeable generalized rubbing, edge wear, and several small edge tears. "Regine Gilbert is a prolific, primitive painter who celebrates her own inner world with exuberant renderings of flowers, landscapes, and designs never seen in this world. We suspect that deep within the Austrian ancestry of blood Regine is a gypsy. How else does one successfully blend a somber and gay mysticism and dare to paint poppies the way she does, or to give us a sunrise which, for sheer madness, equals a Van Gogh? Yet, she maintains a fine balance between fact and fiction, which Van Gogh relinquished." (from Galerie Bonheur). Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 42373

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: 0533011043 Autobiography Regine Gilbert Art Primitive Painting Palm Beach, Florida Americana

RAFAELLE, DUCHESS OF LEINSTER (WITH A FORWORD BY BEVERLEY NICHOLS)

So Brief a Dream

London, England: W. H. Allen, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book have some beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light edge wear, bumping and rubbing. " Edward fell for Mrs Rafaelle Van Neck, and they married in 1932. After the war the Duke of Leinster and Rafaelle divorced. Then he met an ambitious lady called Jo. On 11 of March 1946 Jo finally achieved her ambition of becoming a duchess, even though it meant marrying a gambler who was 8 years younger than her. Edward tried to re-kindle his relationship with Rafaelle (his second wife) but was rejected so he attempted an unsuccessful suicide. After all, Jo refused to divorce the Duke (she did not want to give up her Duchess title) , remaining his wife to the end. ". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 36753

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography Rafaelle Duchess Of Leinster British Royal History Dukes And Duchesses Biography Autobiography

RIHBANY, ABRAHAM MITRIE