King's Counsel: The Life of Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett

1938. Wild, Roland and Derek Curtis-Bennett. King's Counsel: The Life of Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett. With foreword by St. John Hutchinson. New York: the Macmillan Company, 1938. viii, 282 pp., frontispiece, illustrations. Publisher's original blue cloth, with paper spine label. Light shelf wear. Bookplate of "Louis E. Goodman" to front pastedown. Some offsetting to pastedowns and enpapers, otherwise internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * Louis Earl Goodman, [1892-1961], was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, from 1942-1961. From 1958-1961, he served as the chief judge. He was also known as a bibliophile, scholar and philanthropist.