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- Title:
- Important Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Steam-Boat Case, Delivered by chief justice Marshall, March 2, 1824. Gibbons v. Ogden [the March 27, 1824 issue, pp. 49-64 (complete) (Marshall's opinion taking up most of the issue)]
- Publisher:
- Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, 1824.
- Description:
- Marshall's famed opinion establishing freedom of interstate commerce throughout this country, an "opinion which has done more to knit the American people into an indivisible Nation than any other one force in our history, excepting only war"
- Condition:
- Original printed self wraps, disbound, light browning, else a good sound copy now protected in a modern cloth folding case; Vol. XXVI Whole No. 654
- Book No.:
- W-80426
- Price:
- $ 450.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, constitutional law
- Author:
- Wiener, Frederick Bernays
- Title:
- Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) [published in printed form in the 1965 Year Book of the American Philosophical Society]
- Publisher:
- N.p., n.p., 1965.
- Description:
- Colonel Wiener's memorial to the Justice (delivered before the American Philosophical Society) whom he had first met as a student at Harvard Law School in 1928 and who "had a tremendous effect on me", one that lasted throughout his life
- Condition:
- Typescript, double-spaced, stapled at the upper left hand corner, the last page now detached, housed in a modern protective cloth sleeve; 17 pages
- Book No.:
- W-76744
- Price:
- $ 250.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Wolfson, Richard F.
- Title:
- Book Review of 'Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes' by Felix Frankfurter
- Publisher:
- Indiana Law Journal, Volume 23, Indianapolis, 1948.
- Description:
- A seemingly unrecorded separate printing of the review of Frankfurter's Cardozo Lecture delivered in 1947, in whose preparation "I shall use the light that is shed by the decisions of Holmes, Brandeis and Cardozo on statutory construction"
- Condition:
- Original stapled self wraps, pages 381-385, some uneven browning, else quite sound, now carefully preserved in a cloth folding case; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-80422
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Title:
- Debates in the Congress of the United States on the Bill for Repealing the Law "For the More Convenient Organization of the Courts of the United States;" During the First Session of the Seventh Congress [etc.]. Cohen 1203
- Publisher:
- Printed by Whiting, Leavenworth and Whiting, Albany, 1802.
- Description:
- The record of "[t]he profound constitutional questions embedded" in the debates resulting in the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, restoring that of 1789, ultimately leading to Marbury v Madison and the role of judicial review in this country
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, quite worn, rebacked, considerable foxing and browning, yet a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77407
- Price:
- $ 950.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Mason, Alpheus Thomas
- Title:
- Variations on the Liberal Theme, Mr. Justice Brandeis
- Publisher:
- Brandeis Lawyers' Society, Philadelphia, 1947.
- Description:
- The address given to the Society by Mason, Brandeis's principal early biographer, reviewing the political definition of 'liberal' from Lincoln to both Roosevelts and to Holmes, finding Holmes and Brandeis both liberals, but fundamentally different
- Condition:
- Original cloth backed printed paper wraps, a trifle worn, else a good clean copy, 14 pages
- Book No.:
- W-80421
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- political theory, jewish law, Supreme Court
- 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:
- Murphy, Frank
- Title:
- Typed letter signed, a bifolium on The Attorney General Letterhead, Washington, with Murphy's additional personal remarks in his hand in blue ink, addressed to Alex Dow at 2000 Second Avenue in Detroit Michigan
- Publisher:
- No publisher, Washington, 1939.
- Description:
- The letter thanking Dow, a mentor and inspirer of Henry Ford, upon Murphy's appointment as Attorney General, Murphy's handwritten additions reflecting their friendship and mutual interests in reform in Detroit, of which Murphy had served as mayor
- Condition:
- One horizontal fold, a few smudges not affecting legibility, else quite well preserved, with the embossed blind seal of the U.S. Department of Justice
- Book No.:
- W-80423
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- legal reform, Michigan, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Glasser, Martin
- Title:
- The Judicial Philosophy of Felix Frankfurter [in the Review's first volume, with Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek two of the three Editorial Advisors, the Review to be republished by the Liberty Fund; no copy of this original review in a law library in OCLC]
- Publisher:
- New Individualist Review, Chicago, 1962.
- Description:
- An essay highly critical of Frankfurter's doctrine of judicial restraint, invoking de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill, stating that Frankfurter "personifies the Court's efforts to prostrate itself at the feet of the popular branches of government"
- Condition:
- Original printed, stapled wraps, a very good copy, now preserved in a cloth folding case; the Winter 1962 issue
- Book No.:
- W-80427
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- philosophy of law, Supreme Court
- Author:
- Frankfurter, Felix
- Title:
- Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1938.
- Description:
- Then Professor Frankfurter's 1938 lectures delivered at Harvard, said to have been the fulfillment of Holmes' commission that a biography might be written, "a superbly clear exposition of his own as well as Holmes' approach to the Court"
- Condition:
- A very good copy in a slightly chipped dustjacket, presentation copy--"For / Ralph Baker [fellow Harvard Law professor] / with my warm / regards / FF"
- Book No.:
- W-78141
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court
- Author:
- Marshall, John
- Title:
- "The Events of My Life". An Autobiographical Sketch by John Marshall. Introduction by William H. Rehnquist. Edited by Lee C. Bollinger and John C. Dann [based on the manuscript here edited "to represent the original as faithfully as possible"]
- Publisher:
- Clements Library and Supreme Court Historical Society, Ann Arbor and Washington, 2001.
- Description:
- The work which Edward Corwin called "far and away the most important writing by Chief Justice Marshall concerning himself", his effort prompted by a request from Justice Story, the manuscript essentially unknown until 1932 when sold by the family
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled oversized wraps, with six full page illustrations, 30 pages, a fine copy now housed in a custom cloth folder
- Book No.:
- W-80418
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- Supreme Court, biography, 18TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY, Manuscripts
- Author:
- Dunne, Gerald T.
- Title:
- Joseph Story, The Great Term--1837
- Publisher:
- Saint Louis University Law Journal, St. Louis, 1969.
- Description:
- The rare, separate printing of the eleventh in a series of essays written by Mr. Dunne, subsequently to appear, as revised, in his biography of Justice Story ("Justice Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court"), published the following year
- Condition:
- Original printed stapled wraps, unevenly faded, now preserved in a cloth folding case, 23 pages, from the Fall issue, Volume 14, No. 1; no copy in OCLC
- Book No.:
- W-78434
- Price:
- $ 75.00
- Category:
- biography, Supreme Court, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Hand, Learned
- Title:
- A Tribute to Benjamin Nathan Cardozo [appearing in the first issue--Volume 1, Number 1--of the Committee's "Contemporary Jewish Record"]
- Publisher:
- American Jewish Committee, New York, 1938.
- Description:
- Judge Hand's "beautiful tribute" upon the death of Justice Cardozo, originally broadcast over station WHN in New York on July 19, 1938 and published here for the first time, a later modified version appearing in several law reviews the following year
- Condition:
- Original printed wraps, a trifle worn, but a good sound copy
- Book No.:
- W-80424
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- jewish law, Supreme Court, biography
- Author:
- Title:
- 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
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