BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. CONTENTS: Introduction. PART ONE. LIFE IN THE LAW. I Old Practice and New Procedure; II An Elizabethan Firm of Lawyers; III Its Library; IV Memories of Sir Henry Hawkins; V Treasures in the Attic; VI Scandals in the Cellars; VII Clerks and Their Principals; VIII The Managing Clerk and the Articled Clerk; IX Copyholds and Manor Courts; X Cantankerous Clients; XI Godly Clients and Office Prayers; XII A Clerk in Un-holy Orders; XIII Hunting for Next-of-Kin; XIV Suicide of a Baconian; XV Queer Clients; XVI The Ungentle Art of Slandering Solicitors; XVII Penniless Brides and Penniless Poets; XVIII Wills in Wartime; XIX A Word About Executors; XX Goods and Chattels; XXI The Last Words of a Quaker; XXII Strange Death-Bed Scenes; XXIII The Gentle Art of Dying; XXIV Directions for Burial; XXV Eccentric Burials; XXVI The Death Halloo; XXVII Directions for Cremation; XXVIII The Reading of the Will; XXIX Coffee House Confidences; XXX Searching Parish Registers; XXXI Of Divers Insolent Attorneys; XXXII Fly-Leaves and Marginal Notes; XXXIII What's in a Name?; XXXIV Commissioners for Oaths; XXXV Office Post-Bag; XXXVI Civil and Un-civil Letters; XXXVII Of Correspondence in Verse; XXXVIII Of Deeds and Wills in Verse; XXXIX Husband and Wife: United Contradictions; XL Reflections Upon the Married Estate; XLI Killing No Murder; XLII Legal Jargon and Attorneys' Anecdotes; XLIII Breach of Promise; XLIV Stories Old and New; XLV Brief for the Defence; XLVI Noblesse Oblige; XLVII Testament of an Attorney. PART TWO. LIFE OUTSIDE THE LAW Life as a Man of Letters I Leading the Double Life; II Hunting for Manuscripts; III Comedy in a Convent; IV George Robey and a Carmelite Friar; V Literary Blackmail. In Re the Buckler Drawings; VI Records of the Hitchin Loyal Volunteers (1803-9); VII Finds in a Country Bookshop; VIII Forty Letters of Sir Walter Scott; IX My Luck with Sir Henry Chauncy; X Of a Devilishly Ugly Saint; XI Death of an Angelic-Looking Sinner; XII Of Bertram Dobell, Bookseller and Poet; XIII Reflections of the Lot of a Man of Letters; Writers I Have Known I E. E. Kellett and Others; II Cardinal Gasquet and W. B. Yeats; III Gabriel d'Annunzio; IV Alice Meynell; V Darrell Figgis and W. H. Davies; VI G. K. Chesterton and H. G. Wells; VII George Bernard Shaw; VIII Anthony Hope; IX Clifford Bax; X Bax and His Friends; Doctors I Have Known I Brothers in Adversity: Lawyers and Doctors; II Dr. Jenner of Baldock and Dr. Wacher of Canterbury; III Fifty Years Without a Doctor; IV John Mitchell Bruce and the Quakers; V A Word About Freud; VI Dr. Coue, Dr. Woodforde, and Others; VII 'Hine's Homely Physic Book'; VIII An Infallible Receipt Against All Maladies; IX The Best Physic in the World: Good Humour; X Dreams and Devils; XI Ghosts: Polite and Otherwise; XII Ghosts from My Past; Schoolmaster I Have Known I Memories of My First School; II The Master with the Glass Eye; III Close of a Promising Career in Science; IV 'Our Mr. Chips'; V The Great Lock-out; VI The Hard Lot of a Schoolmaster; VII A Few Howlers; VIII Ghosts of Old Grammarians; Parsons I Have Known I The Rev. George Todd; II Gypsy Smith; III The Rev. and Hon. L. W. Denman; IV Dean Farrar; V The Rev. Joseph Parker, The Rev. R. J. Campbell, and Others; VI The Eccentric Vicar of Hexton; VII The Dean of Winchester (Dr. W. H. Hutton); VIII The Rev. Henry Tristram Valentine; IX Dr. Adrian Fortescue; Touching Upon Religion I Lawyers, An Irreligious Race; II Such Religion As They Have; III A Working Religion; IV The Building Up of a Simple Faith; V Of Brother Ass the Body; VI Bible Study and Private Prayers; VII Vigils in St. Mary's, Hitchin; VIII Minsden Chapel. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Confessions of an Un-common Attorney

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Readers Union Ltd. & J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London

Date de parution

1946

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Hard Cover

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Book Club (BCE/BOMC).

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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location. We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born. In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business. For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other. But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here. We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.

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