BOK.JUDGE CURTIS. COMMONWEALTH V GORDON ET AL.. BLANCHE&ALFRED KNOPF., NEW YORK., 1949.

Price: US$18.75 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: IN GOOD GLASSINE WRAPPER.LIMITED EDITION(1/500 COPIES.)PUBLISHED BY THE KNOPFS FOR XMAS 1949.TIGHT CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL GLASSINE WRAPPER WITH A FEW CHIPS AND A STRIP MISSING AT TOP EDGE OF BACK COVER.

Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.

BOK (Curtis). Commonwealth V Gordon et al.. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1949.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: 57pp, quarterbound quarto paper boards over cloth spine. unnumbered copy of 500 copies. slight cover wear, mild rubbing to edges otherwise very good-

Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

BOK, CURTIS.. Commonwealth V. Gordon et al; The Opinion of Judge Bok, March Eighteenth, 1949.. Blanche and Alfred Knopf., San Francisco, 1949.

Price: US$32.07 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (v), 57 pages, cloth backed patterned boards, 12.5 x 10", with printed presentation slip enclosed. The decision of a censorship case involving the seizure of nine books from Philadelphia booksellers, including: "The Wild Palms" by William Faulkner; " Studs Lonigan Trilogy" and "A World I Never Made" by James T. Farrell; "God's Little Acre" by Erskine Caldwell; and "Never Love a Stranger" by Harold Robbins. Publisher Alfred Knopf and his wife Blanche thought highly of Judge Bok's decision in the obscenity case and commissioned the Grabhorn Press to print 500 copies to distribute as a Christmas keepsake in 1949 "to give it this permanent and beautiful dress."

Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom

BOK, JUDGE [CURTIS].. Commonwealth .V. Gordon et al. The Opinion of Judge Bok March Eighteenth 1949.. The Grabhorn Press, 1949, 1949.

Price: US$44.10 + shipping

Description: The Grabhorn Press, 1949, privately printed for Blanche and Alfred Knopf as a Christmas present. 32 cm. Half buckram with paper covered boards. Paper spine label. Printed on laid paper, text in red borders with wide margins. Introduction by Blanche and Alfred Knopf. In open end slipcase. Covers of slipcase slightly cockled, otherwise mint condition.On March 20, 1948, members of the Vice Squad of the Philadelphia Police Department commenced a series of mass raids upon book stores and booksellers to seize a list of books that in Inspector's Ellis opinion were obscene. Nearly 1200 copies were confiscated such as Raintree County, Never Love a Stranger. Judge Bok reserved decision, and on march 18, 1949 sustained the demurrers and entered judgment in favor of the defendants. We have asked our friends the Grabhorns to give it this permanent and beautiful dress. (From the Introduction).

Seller: Antiquariaat De Keerkring, Malden, Netherlands

Judge Curtis Bok. Commonwealth v. Gordon et al. The Opinion of Judge Bok, March 18, 1949. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1949.

Price: US$70.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [vi], ,57 pp, small folio; white linen backed blue boards, printed title label. The decorative initial "V" on titlepage designed by Mallette Dean. Printed on French mouldmade paper. One of 500 copies printed for Blanche and Alfred Knopf. Ruled in red throughout. Some chipping to title label, small stain on front board, interior fine. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 1940-1956, no. 491.

Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

(Grabhorn Press); Judge (Curtis) Bok. COMMONWEALTH V. GORDON, ET AL. The Opinion of Judge Bok March Eighteenth 1949. Privately Printed for Blanche and Alfred Knopf By the Grabhorn Press, No Place, 1949.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Quarter grey linen with spine label and decorated paper-covered boards, slipcase, 4to., (iv), 57, (1) pages. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press for Blanche and Alfred Knopf on French Ingres paper. A fine copy in archival mylar in near fine grey paper-covered board slipcase.

Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.

Bok, Curtis. Commonwealth V. Gordon et al; The Opinion of Judge Bok, March Eighteenth, 1949. (Blanche and Alfred Knopf), San Francisco, 1949.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (v), 57 pages, cloth backed patterned boards, 12.5 x 10", cardboard slipcase, with printed presentation slip enclosed. Nice copy, one corner of slipcase split. The decision of a censorship case involving the seizure of nine books from Philadelphia booksellers, including: "The Wild Palms" by William Faulkner; " Studs Lonigan Trilogy" and "A World I Never Made" by James T. Farrell; "God's Little Acre" by Erskine Caldwell; and "Never Love a Stranger" by Harold Robbins. Publisher Alfred Knopf and his wife Blanche thought highly of Judge Bok's decision in the obscenity case and commissioned the Grabhorn Press to print 500 copies to distribute as a Christmas keepsake in 1949 "to give it this permanent and beautiful dress."

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.