Lawyer Man

[good solid copy, slight deterioration to cloth at top of spine, small bookseller's rubber stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Cincinnati); jacket has a few small closed tears, shallow chip at top of spine, much shallower chipping elsewhere along top edge, minor paper loss at several corners and at base of spine]. Very scarce novel about a lawyer who was "much more than honest -- shrewd, brilliant, fearless [with] an accurate sense of humor, a trip-hammer wit, capacity for fact and logic, and especially a broad sympathy and understanding for all things human. To the unfortunate, the weak, those who cannot afford big fees, he is unstintingly generous. On wealthy clients he slaps the big fees with gusto." In other words: science fiction. The real-life model for this Super-Lawyer was purportedly the noted defense attorney William J. Fallon (1886-1927), aka "The Great Mouthpiece." Although Fallon's reputation had suffered a little toward the end of his short life, within a few years after his death he was already being somewhat mythologized by various writiers, among them Gene Fowler, who published a biography of Fallon in 1931. The movie version, released by Warner Bros. in 1932, cast William Powell -- perfectly -- in the role. [NOTE that I've dubbed this a "later printing" due to the fact that all the books blurbed on the rear jacket panel were published in either 1934 or 1935.]

Product Info

Publisher: The Macaulay Company

Year: (c.1932)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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