[Rarebooks] FS: Supreme Court Justice O.W. Holmes' Jr.'s Copy of the U.S. Senate Manual

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[HOLMES,  Oliver  Wendell, Jr]. [HOLMES'S  COPY]  SENATE  MANUAL,
CONTAINING  THE  STANDING  RULES  AND  ORDERS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES
SENATE....   Washington:  Government  Printing   Office  1907.   First
Edition.  Contains the Constitution, the Declaration of  Independence,
Articles  of  Confederation, etc. Revised under the direction  of  the
Senate  Committee on Rules, 59th Congress. Bound in full black morocco
with  marbled  endpapers  and edges, recently rebacked  and  retaining
nearly  all  of  the  original spine.  Supreme  Court  Justice  Oliver
Wendell  Holmes, Jr.'s copy with "Mr. Justice Holmes" stamped in  gilt
on  the front cover. In 1902 Holmes was appointed to the United States
Supreme  Court  by  President Theodore Roosevelt, a position  he  held
until  his  retirement in 1932. Holmes became famous for  his  liberal
interpretations  of  the United States Constitution and was  known  as
the  "Great Dissenter" because of his disagreement with the views  of
his   colleagues  on  the  Court.  This   copy  has  twenty  or  so
gilt-lettered  leather index tabs pasted to the appropriate  fore-edge
margins  with two tabs no longer present. The only writing present is,
interestingly,  in the sections toward the end listing members of both
the  Supreme  Court  and the Cabinet which have about a  dozen  or  so
updates  in ink in block lettering in a miniscule neat hand,  possibly
Holmes's  but  we  are not certain. In any case, a rare  example  of a
working  copy  of  a  book from this  great  Supreme  Court  Justice's
library. Very Good and scarce.                                $3500.00

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