[Rarebooks] fs-Felix Frankfurter

Joe Luttrell rarelaw at meyerbos.com
Wed May 12 22:14:13 EDT 2004


1.  [FRANKFURTER, FELIX].  Archibald G. Thacher.  The Lawyer's
Part in National Defense, A Paper Read before the New York Law
School [etc.].  Privately Printed, [New York?], [1941?].
Printed stapled wraps; 45 pages. [62665 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62665 $ 250.00

Presentation copy from Justice Frankfurter, who no doubt rightly
supposed Mr. Thacher's address would be of high interest to Colonel
Wiener (and with one of Colonel Wiener's own articles cited in the
bibliography); inscribed "Fritz / See passim / FF".

2.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Address . . . at the Inauguration of Dr.
Harry N. Wright, Sixth President of the City College of the College
of the City of New York [etc.].  Privately printed, [New York?],
[1942?].  Printed stapled wraps, a trifle embrowned; 16 pages.
[62026 FBWL59L59E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62026     $ 350.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's lecture in praise of
publicly-supported education to realize the American ideal of equal
opportunity, passionately delivered by him at his undergraduate
alma mater, inscribed "For Fritz Wiener / from FF".

3.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Chief Justices I Have Known.  Virginia
Law Review Association, Charlottesville, 1953.  From the November
issue, a little faded; stapled wraps, 30 pages. [62019 FBWL59]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62019
                                                         $ 650.00

Presentation copy of the Justice's informal talk delivered at
Virginia Law School, devoted with great charm and insight to Chief
Justices Fuller, White, Taft, Hughes and Stone--"For Fritz Wiener
/ from his friend / Felix Frankfurter / Xmas 53".

4.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Conditions for, and the Aims and
Methods of, Legal Research.  Iowa Law Review, Iowa City, 1930.
Reprinted from the year's second issue; yellow wraps, 12 pages.
[62296] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62296
                                                         $ 650.00

5.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Health of the Society.  The Journal
of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, [London?], 1950.  From
the fourth issue; stapled self wraps, 6 pages. [62018 FBWL59]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62018 $
350.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's speech, delivered at
Lincoln's Inn Hall in July, 1950, full of warmth and of reflections
on the teaching of law and famous law teachers, the inscription
entirely in the Justice's hand "For / FBW / from FF".

6.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme
Court.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1938.  Original
light blue cloth, the spine faded, a bit rubbed; sound. [62041
FBWL56EL59EL74E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62041 $ 650.00

Another copy of Frankfurter's 1938 Harvard lectures delivered
shortly before his elevation to the Court; inscribed on the front
free endpaper (the invariable location) "For Fritz Wiener / valued
critic / and friend / With all fond / wishes from / FF".

7.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Observations on the Nature of the
Judicial Process of Supreme Court Litigation.  Privately printed?,
[Philadelphia?], [1954?].  Printed stapled wraps; 16 pages. [62028
FBWL59] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62028
                                                         $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's lecture read before the
American Philosophical Society, with much on due process, on
judicial restraint, and some penetrating comments on Justice
Cardozo; inscribed "For Fritz Wiener / from his friend / FF".

8.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Reflections on the Reading of
Statutes [etc.].  The Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, New York, 1947.  Reprinted from the Association's Record;
stapled wraps, 25 pages. [62023 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62023     $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's Cardozo Lecture
delivered in New York in March, 1947, a lovely, warm
inscription--"For Fritz Wiener, guardian of my accuracy / and
otherwise sturdy critic, from his obliged / friend / Felix
Frankfurter".

9.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Supreme Court in the Mirror of
Justices, Being the First Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School [etc.].  Privately printed,
[Philadelphia?], [1957?].  Printed green stapled wraps,
well-preserved; 21 pages. [62031 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62031     $ 650.00

A major lecture by the Justice, focusing on the history of the
Court and the qualities necessary to serve upon it; inscribed "For
Fritz, with the hope / that his generosity in / clearing the track
was / not frustrated, and / the regards of FF".

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