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- Photograph of the Court, the frame measuring some 14 x 18 inches, the image 9 x 13 inches, a formal pose, all of the justices in their judicial robes, five standing with four behind, with the embossed stamp of Harris & Ewing in the lower left-hand corner
- Publisher:
- Harris & Ewing, Washington, 1916-21].
- Description:
- An early 20th century formal photograph of the Court taken during Brandeis's first years as a Justice, clearly revealing his youthful appearance, with Justice Holmes to the left of Chief Justice White, with his glorious mustache in full bloom
- Condition:
- Matted and framed, the frame somewhat scuffed and the photograph somewhat faded, but the features of all of the Justices still clear and distinct
- Book No.:
- W-74250
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, law and photography, Inscribed or Presentation Copy
- Author:
- Lavery, Emmet
- Title:
- The Magnificent Yankee, A Play in Three Acts [presentation copy "For / Kenneth MacKinna [the actor, director, and producer with whom Laverty worked on a number of occasions] / with enduring regard / and all good wishes / Emmet Laverty / June 1948"]
- Publisher:
- Samuel French, New York, 1946.
- Description:
- The much praised play (and later a movie) focusing on Holmes' years in Washington while a justice on the Supreme Court, set in its entirety in the home library of the Holmes's, with an inspiring colloquy between Brandeis and Holmes in the second act
- Condition:
- Original red cloth, a very good clean copy, with the stamp "property of / West L.A. Acting / Classes / (310) 285-9233" on the front blank
- Book No.:
- W-80407
- Price:
- $ 350.00
- Category:
- Inscribed or Presentation Copy, Supreme Court, Law and Literature
- Author:
- Title:
- Opinions of Mr. Justice Clark, Supreme Court of the United States, October Term 1949 [a presentation copy--"My best wishes to Ed Levi [a successor to Tom Clark as U.S. Attorney General] who I knew and admired B.C. (Before Chicago) T.C.C.]"
- Publisher:
- No Publisher Stated, No Place, 1950?.
- Description:
- The rare specially prepared volume of the eleven opinions and one concurrence written by Justice Clark during his first year on the Court, together with related concurrences and dissents, compiled from the Court's advance sheets; two copies in OCLC
- Condition:
- Original maroon cloth, gilt, especially well preserved, with Clark's pictorial Supreme Court bookplate (and the presentation) on the front pastedown
- Book No.:
- W-80408
- Price:
- $ 750.00
- Category:
- Inscribed or Presentation Copy, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Douglas, William O.
- Title:
- A Living Bill of Rights [with a copy of a typescript carbon letter from Douglas to Epstein (from the Douglas Papers in the Library of Congress) in which Douglas compares the suspension of habeas corpus in our Civil War to South African legislation]
- Publisher:
- Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, 1961.
- Description:
- Presentation copy to David Epstein, the South African lawyer with whom Douglas had corresponded about civil rights there and in this country in the year following publication, "For / Hon David H Epstein / from his friend / and admirer / Wm O Douglas"
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; with a copy of a typescript letter copy from Douglas to Epstein dated September 22, 1962, laid in
- Book No.:
- W-80419
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Bill of Rights, Supreme Court, Inscribed or Presentation Copy, habeas corpus, SOUTH AFRICA
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