[Rarebooks] O.W. Holmes, Jr.'s copy of the SENATE MANUAL with the rules and orders of the U.S. Senate

[Charles Agvent]

[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 minuscule 
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. 		$3,500.00

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