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Address by Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter at the Inauguration of Dr. Harry N. Wright, Sixth President of the City College
$400.00
Frankfurter, Felix
City College of the College of the City of New York. n.d. (1942).
Frankfurter’s address on September 30, 1942 at the inauguration of the president of City College of New York (Frankfurter graduated from CCNY in 1902). 16 unnumbered pages in wrappers.
Warmly inscribed to Dr. Thomas “TJ” Jones: “Dear T. J.;This owes more to you than it reveals — and it goes with the cordial good wishes; regards of Felix Frankfurter”
Jones was a British civil servant and educationalist, once described as “one of the six most important men in Europe”. First appointed as assistant secretary (later Deputy Secretary) to the Cabinet in December 1916 by David Lloyd George, Jones served as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet for nearly twenty years and under four different Prime Ministers. He was much involved in the negotiations which led to the celebrated Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 and the industrial troubles of the 1920s which culminated in the General Strike of May 1926. Jones also accompanied Lloyd George on his famous visit to Hitler in 1936 and was one of the founders of the Gregynog Press in 1923.
A scarce publication even unsigned: OCLC lists only four copies. Wrappers unevenly toned, consistent wear to yapped edges. Overall very good.
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$300.00New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1899. Though inscribed on the front paste down to the author’s cousin, comparison to Brewer’s letters from the same period indicates that the inscription is not in the Supreme Court Justice’s hand. More likely, it was signed by Brewer’s secretary, and we have seen other copies similarly inscribed. Justice Brewer served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1889 to 1910. As an intellectual leader of the court presided over by Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller – a court that has been seen as reactionary, determined to infuse the law with social Darwinism and laissez-faire ideology – Brewer has traditionally been viewed negatively by most scholars. “History has not been kind to David Brewer”, commented legal scholar Owen M. Fiss, going on to later say that ”[h]e has faded into obscurity, in part because some of his colleagues—Field, Harlan, and Holmes—were figures of great prominence.” More recently, however, Brewer’s reputation as a reactionary has been reconsidered. While accepting that “Brewer can fairly be labeled a conservative”, the legal scholar J. Gordon Hylton wrote in 1994 that “to say that he was a self-conscious defender of the interests of corporate America or an enthusiastic disciple of laissez-faire is both unfair and inaccurate” Further, Brewer’s biographer Michael J. Brodhead maintains that Brewer accepted most of his generation’s reform goals. He championed many forms of social legislation, the regulation of business, the rights of women and minorities, the support of charities, educational reform, and world peace. During his term, Brewer was the author of such notable court opinions as In re Debs, Muller v. Oregon, and Kansas v. Colorado. He supported property rights, admired honest entrepreneurial activity, and opposed the concentration of power in any form. Brewer favored the individual in all instances, whether that individual was the initiator of a great economic enterprise or a farmer struggling to extend agriculture into the western plains. Brodhead concluded his biography of Brewer by writing that he “deserves to be remembered as an important figure of a much misunderstood period in the judicial history of the United States”. Thin volume in very good condition with two small abrasions to front cover and minimal rubbing to board edges.
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Association Copy from Supreme Court Justice
Making Your Case
$1,250.00St Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008. First edition. Signed by Scalia as “Nino” and inscribed “with respect and affection” for Henry Abraham. Nino is the nickname Scalia acquired early in life, partly in remembrance of his grandfather, for whom he was named, and is how he was known to close friends. The recipient is almost undoubtedly Henry J. Abraham, University of Virginia Law Professor, scholar on the judiciary and constitutional law, and friend to Scalia (as well as Justices Brennan, Powell, and Ginsberg). In his honor, Professor Abraham’s former students and colleagues established the Abraham Distinguished Lecture Series at UVA Law School in 1997. Scalia was the 2010 Abraham Lecturer. A fine copy in similarly fine, unclipped dust wrapper. Association copies with Scalia’s signature are uncommon indeed.
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