THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE TRANSCRIPT OF THE RECORD OF THE TRIAL OF NICOLA SACCO AND BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI IN THE COURTS OF MASSACHUSETTS AND SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS 1920 - 7.
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1928. Six large octavo volumes in tan buckram; ex-library with stamps to title pages; title leaf to volume III loosening, with a short, closed, blank lower margin tear. Otherwise, the text is clean and fresh. The first five volumes are paginated consecutively, through page 5621, including a general index. The sixth volume, in 473 pages, is devoted to "Supplemental Proceedings," including the Bridgewater case. Except as noted, Very Good.
In one of the most controversial cases of the 20th century, alleged anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted and sentenced to death in July 1921 for the murder of a guard and paymaster in Braintree, Massachusetts. Charges of political bias, anti-Italian and anti-immigrant sentiment rendered the trial a cause celebre. Felix Frankfurter, other prominent civil libertarians and citizens vigorously protested for years, until the defendants were finally executed in 1927.
We offer the complete stenographic transcript of the trial, along with appeals, defendants' briefs, and supplemental proceedings. Volume IV includes a folding plan and thirteen inserted leaves of halftone plates depicting ballistics evidence admitted at trial.
The entire proceedings are seldom found together, as here in a complete set. The volumes were reprinted in 1969. Item #40656
Price: $850.00