Louis Nizer
My Life in Court, 1961
Garden City: Doubleday
Inscribed by Nizer to famed photographer Yousuf Karsh. whose portrait of the author is used here on the dust jacket.
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Octavo. 524pp. Nizer reminisces, in lawyerly narrative, about six of his most notable trial cases, including Dolly Astor v. John Astor, the fraught divorce battle, and Bercovici v. Chaplin, with...
Octavo. 524pp. Nizer reminisces, in lawyerly narrative, about six of his most notable trial cases, including Dolly Astor v. John Astor, the fraught divorce battle, and Bercovici v. Chaplin, with Nizer representing Bercovici in his accusation of plagiarism against Chaplin. Nizer was also an associate of Jack Valenti, with him establishing the ratings system for the Motion Picture Association of America. Bound in black cloth over boards. Stray rubs to corners, shallow bumping, else very good in very good dust wrapper.


