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Hardcover. Octavo, xxxiii, 516 pages. In Good condition. Spine is brown with gold print. Boards in brown cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1399040. FP New Rockville Stock.

First Edition. ISBN-13: 9781886363748; ISBN-10: 1886363749. Kelsen, Hans. General Theory of Law and State. Translated by Anders Wedberg. Originally published: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. xxxiii, 516 pp. Reprinted 1999, 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781886363748; ISBN-10: 1886363749. Hardcover. Few winkled pages. Else fine. $39.95. * Reprint of the first edition. This classic work by the important Austrian jurist is the fullest exposition of his enormously influential pure theory of law, which includes a theory of the state. It also has an extensive appendix that discusses the pure theory in comparison with the law of nature, positivism, historical natural law, metaphysical dualism and scientific-critical philosophy. "The scope of the work is truly universal. It never loses itself in vague generalities or in unconnected fragments of thought. On the contrary, precision in the formulation of details and rigorous system are characteristic features of the exposition: only a mind fully concentrated upon that logical structure can possibly follow Kelsen's penetrating analysis. Such a mind will not shrink from the effort necessary for acquainting itself with.the pure theory of law in its more general aspects, and will then pass over to the theory of the state which ends up with a carefully worked out theory of international law.": Julius Kraft, American Journal of International Law 40 (1946):496. Possibly the most influential jurisprudent of the twentieth century, Hans Kelsen [1881-1973] was legal adviser to Austria's last emperor and its first republican government, the founder and permanent advisor of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Austria, and the author of Austria's Constitution, which was enacted in 1920, abolished during the Anschluss, and restored in 1945. He was the author of more than forty books on law and legal philosophy. Active as a teacher in Europe and the United States, he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and taught at the universities of Cologne and Prague, the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Harvard, Wellesley, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Naval War College. …

dj. First edition. First edition, first printing. Association copy from the library of Hans Morgenthau, his card laid in. xxxiii, [1], 516 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and dulling to spine gilt, light soiling to upper textblock edge. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with light soiling and appreciable wear including two small holes to rear flap fold and 1.75" split and evidence of label removal to spine panel. A treatise on jurisprudence by the eminent Austrian-American legal theorist Hans Kelsen, who wrote the text in German while teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. It was translated by the Swedish philosopher Anders Wedberg, who had studied at Harvard. Kelsen was a good friend of his fellow jurist and political refugee Hans Morgenthau. He had promoted the younger man's career before the two arrived in the United States, and Morgenthau dedicated his 1970 book Truth and Power to Kelsen.…