Carl J. Friedrich
Die Philosophie des Rechts in historischer Perspektive.
Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1955. Enzyklopädie der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaft. First edition. 153 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with gilt-lettered blue cloth spine label. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright.
Work by Carl Joachim Friedrich (1901-1984), a German-American professor and political theorist. He taught alternately at Harvard and Heidelberg until his retirement in 1971. His writings on state and constitutional theory, constitutionalism and government made him one of the world's leading political scientists in the post-World War II period. He is one of the most influential scholars of totalitarianism.