[THORNWILLOW PRESS],THE BILL OF RIGHTS: America's Guarentee of Human Rights; The World's Example of freedom - by Warren E. Burger. Thornwillow Press, 1983. The ninth book of Luke Pontifell's noted press. Copy number 102 of 150. Bound in full morocco goatskin, housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. With elegant printed card mounted to the front free endpaper: "from Chief Justice Burger." The paper for the book was produced at the Velké Losiny mill; it featured a thornwillow watermark and a Velké Losiny countermark. It is also significant that for the first time the colophon lists the locations of the press as New York, West Stockbridge, and Prague. Offered with six additional volumes related to or once owned by Warren Burger.
PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $250-350
