Product Description
The Macmillan Company, New York.
1903.
283 pages.
First edition, first printing.
1903 date on the title page and Published December,1903 on the copyright page with no later printings listed.
Book is tight.
Binding and hinges are strong and sound.
Professionally quarter-bound in brown leather over marbled boards with gilt titles on leather backstrip in between five decorative raised bands.
Author and famed litigator, Francis L.
Wellman's rare original business card is tipped-in at title page.
A photo of Francis L.
Wellman is tipped-in opposite the half-title page.
Exterior leather shows scuffing, marbled boards show scuffing with small bruise along base of front panel.
Author, and former Harvard Law professor, Francis Lewis Wellman, was considered the most brilliant cross-examiner of his day.
During his stint as ADA in New York City, he was accredited with more verdicts of murder in the first degree than had been obtained by any other prosecutor up to that time in the United States.
A lawyer's lawyer, he became a hired gun of sorts, brought on to join multiple different counsel's trial teams, just to cross-examine.
This title, Wellman's The Art of Cross-Examination is still read by law students and litigators today, and considered the definitive guide to the art of cross-examination; essentially, the law equivalent of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
An incredible copy of the rare first edition, first printing, with Francis Wellman's rare personal business card tipped-in.
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