Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme Court [*SIGNED*]

[very slight wear at spine ends, top edge of text block slightly dust-darkened; jacket lightly age-toned along spine, some very shallow chipping at top edge of rear panel]. (B&W photo frontispiece) INSCRIBED briefly ("for Mary & Henry / with the affection of") and SIGNED ("Felix") on the front endpaper. The texts of three lectures about the distinguished Supreme Court Justice (who resigned in 1932 after almost thirty years on the Court, and died three years later), written and delivered at Harvard in April 1938 by another great jurist, who would himself be elevated to the high court less than a year later. (And it's dedicated to yet another, Benjamin Cardozo, who had succeeded Holmes and would himself be succeeded by Frankfurter.) The topics of the three lectures are: "Property and Society"; "Civil Liberties and the Individual"; and "The Federal System." Signed by Author

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Publisher: Harvard University Press

Year: 1938

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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