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The Judgement of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1955réf. 2951New York: Cameron & Kahn 1955. Cloth. Good. Third edition FRED G. WEISGAL'S COPY. Large 8vo. Light grey buckram boards spine lettered in maroon. Head of spine frayed extremities bruised some staining. Edges toned. Uneven offsetting to endpapers inscribed in black ink to ffep: "Fred E. Weisgal 2/6/55" with his monochrome Thomas Paine-quoting ex libris pasted below. Toned else clean and tight. In Rockwell Kent's strikingly sorrowful dust jacket: toned and spotted large losses joints delicate and reinforced with amateur taping to reverse. Good/ good- A well-handled association copy of the American playwright's account of the highly divisive case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the library of prominent Baltimore civil rights attorney and jazz musician Fred E. Weisgal. John Wexley is perhaps best known for co-writing the screenplay for the James Cagney vehicle Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 and his prison drama The Last Mile 1930. Fred E. Weisgal 1919-1991 began his legal career in Baltimore in 1947 when he fought and won a suit to admit black students to the Maryland Institute art school now Maryland Institute College of Art. He subsequently joined the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU and represented a number of significant civil rights cases before emigrating to Israel in 1969. Weisgal's papers are held by the University of Baltimore. Cameron & Kahn hardcover
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