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19479097New Directions 1947. WILLIAMS Tennessee. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. NY: New Directions 1947. Tall 8vo. pictorial purple boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Williams and actress Jessica Tandy on the front endpaper. Only a mere 5080 copies were printed. One of the most difficult if not the most difficult and desirable books to obtain in the Williams canon. Tandy portrayed Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production also starring Marlon Brando Kim Hinter and Karl Malden. Tandy garnered four Tony awards for her performance. Unquestionably one of the great masterpieces of modern American drama and the first play to win Williams a Pulitzer Prize. Near fine few very tiny dings to upper & lower covers little tanning to endpapers; text clean & tight; minor soil & few very short tears little fading spine & small light stain front cover; $2.75 price is present on the front flap d/j. A nice copy!! <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books
19503445981950. Softcover. Near Fine. Carbon typescript. Quarto. 75pp. but missing final two pages. Sheets bradbound in the blue "Liebling-Wood" folder of Williams's agent Audrey Wood. The light blue wrappers a bit worn with a couple tears and the original brads replaced very good plus. It's labeled "Third draft Europe September 1950" on the first sheet along with a pencil notation that reads "not final draft." This copy also includes the epigraph from the poem "Anabasis" on the first sheet that was used intermittently by Williams throughout his many draft. The Rose Tattoo is Williams's first full-length comedy which he called his "love-play to the world." It concerns a Sicilian widow from the Gulf Coast and her attempts to protect her attractive young daughter while dealing with her own renewed passions. This draft was completed after learning that Elia Kazan had passed on directing the play to do a film with Arthur Miller a snub that greatly disheartened Williams. Nevertheless the play which debuted on Broadway in early 1951 won the Tony Awards for best play as well as best actor and best actress awards for Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton. A 1955 film version was also a success starring Burt Lancaster and Anna Magnani who was won the Oscar for best actress. unknown books
19461249031946. First Edition. Signed. BROWN Margaret Wise. Little Fur Family. New York: Harper Brothers 1946. 12mo original full rabbit fur original cardboard box. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $7500.Rare first edition bound in rabbit fur with the original illustrated box signed on the title page by Margaret Wise Brownthe only copy of any Margaret Wise Brown book we have ever encountered signed by her.Margaret Wise Brown's most whimsically designed book follows the adventures of a ""little fur animal"" as he explores his world. Beautifully illustrated by Garth Williams of Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little fame this scarce first edition is bound in real rabbit fur. ""The diminutive 1946 rabbit-fur-bound edition had proven difficult to store moths got into Harper's warehouse destroying a large quantity of the first printing"" Marcus 33. Consequently later editions had imitation fur or no fur at all. In the original publisher's illustrated box with circular cut-out through which real fur shows. Later editions were also larger than this edition as its small size made it difficult for libraries to carry on their shelves. Book about-fine slight soiling to rear panel only of box. An excellent copy very scarce and desirable signed by Brown. unknown
195550393New York: New Directions Books 1955. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Signed first edition of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning third play adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Tangled in webs of deceit woven for personal safety and personal gain the characters of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF struggle to come to terms with the truth throughout the play. The 1958 film added another layer to the obfuscation of truth at the heart of the play by removing references Brick's homosexual desires in response to the Hays Code. A beautiful copy. 8'' x 5.25''. Original brown cloth binding with black spine lettering. Original unclipped $3.00 color pictorial dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white plate before "Notes for the Designer." NYT not credited on verso of title page and all other points. xiv 198 pages. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. Trace rubbing to jacket. Top edge of book a little dusty. Else bright and sharp. New Directions Books unknown
D21033Very Good. A remarkable and deeply personal collection of 4 typed letters signed "Tom" and "T. Wms." and one note signed "Tennessee Williams" on various subjects 1959-1980 to his cousins Stell and Jim Adams. Comprising: Typed letter signed to his cousins Stell and Jim Adams 15 W. 72 New York City 11 February 1966; 1/2 p. on onionskin. Typed letter signed to Jim Adams Key West 6 September 1979; 2 1/2 pp. on onionskin with the original envelope. Typed letter signed to Stell Adams Key West 5 October 1979; 1 1/2 pp. on onionskin. Typed letter signed to Stell Adams N.p. 29 December 1980; 1 p. on onionskin. note signed np nd; 1/2 p. on lined paper giving his approval for expenses to care for his sister Rose. Together 6 pages from 215 x 140 to 280 x 215 mm; old folds a few small chips one dampstained. <br /> <br />An illuminating and frank group of correspondence including poignant comments following the death of his partner Frank Merlo: "I don't need to tell you I'm sure that I am going through a period of terrific strain. Thank you for worrying about me I'm worried about me too. I know that very soon I'll have to force myself out of my inertia and go somewhere." <br /> <br />The letters mostly relate to his sister Rose with whom he was quite close: "I bought a lovely house for Rose in a better neighborhood that mine. I am far from happy with the female companion whom I engaged to care for her. The woman is a Jesus freak and a downer. She is continually taking Rose out to her own social activities such as Masonic Lodge meetings and Bible study groups. Last night she phones me that she had told the whole group to pray for my salvation . Rose is now 70 and I feel that the twilight years of her life should be made agreeable as possible since she has such a tragic past ." <br /> <br />Williams also discusses his partner Robert Carroll detailing his struggles with substances: "Robert becomes more and more impossible so I spend increasingly long periods away from Key West. He really wants to take over completely. His drug addiction is pitiable but hard to live with. I keep hoping to somehow extricate myself from this relationship which offers only habitutude ." <br/><br/> unknown
1948132482Denver: Swallow 1948. First edition of John Williams' first book. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in a contemporary hand "Best wishes John Williams." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket and book design by John Williams. Rare and desirable signed. Best known for his later novels Butcher's Crossing Stoner and Augustus American author and professor John Williams wrote the first draft of his first book Nothing But The Night while enlisted as a sergeant in the United States Air Force in India and Burma. The story of a tense and listless man in perpetual reaction to a childhood trauma Nothing But the Night introduced Williams' unusual and interesting voice to the literary world prior to his tenure as an English professor and presentation of the National Book Award in 1973. Swallow hardcover
19232633<p>Paris: Contact Publishing Company 1923. First edition. 93 pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers skillfully repaired at the spine and edges some minor soiling and light foxing. Now housed in a custom clamshell box.<br /><br />Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. About 300 copies printed "but many of these may not have been distributed" according to the bibliographer. One of Williams' most important books and one of his scarcest books. It includes such iconic poems here untitled as "By the road to the contagious hospital;" "The pure products of America go crazy;" "So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow;" and others. Wallace A7.<br /><br />From the library of Victoria McAlmon the publisher Robert McAlmon's sister with her signature "V. McAlmon / London 1923" on the front free endpaper.</p> Contact Publishing Company
192268865E-376: George H. Doran Company. Good. 1922. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George H. Doran New York/William Heinemann London UK 1922. 33 pgs. Illustated with 7 color chromolithograph plates 4 single page 3 that are double paged. First US Edition/First Printing Correctly dated 1922 and with the addition of George H. Doran to the title page "Printed in Great Britain" present to the verso. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities most of the spine is missing with fragments left. Light foxing present throughout. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A stuffed toy rabbit with real thread whiskers comes to life in Margery Williams's timeless tale of the transformative power of love. Given as a Christmas gift to a young boy the Velveteen Rabbit lives in the nursery with all of the other toys waiting for the day when the Boy as he is called will choose him as a playmate. In time the shy Rabbit befriends the tattered Skin Horse the wisest resident of the nursery who reveals the goal of all nursery toys: to be made "real" through the love of a human. "'Real isn't how you are made' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long long time not just to play with but REALLY loves you then you become Real.' " This sentimental classic--perfect for any child who's ever thought that maybe just maybe his or her toys have feelings--has been charming children since its first publication in 1922. E-376; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 33 pages . George H. Doran Company hardcover
19503445981950. Softcover. Near Fine. Carbon typescript. Quarto. 75pp. but lacking the final two pages. Sheets bradbound in the blue "Liebling-Wood" folder of Williams' agent Audrey Wood. The light blue wrappers a bit worn with a couple of tears and the original brads replaced very good plus. Labeled "Third draft Europe September 1950" on the first sheet along with a pencil notation that reads "not final draft." This copy also includes the epigraph from the poem "Anabasis" on the first sheet that was used intermittently by Williams throughout his many drafts.<br /> <br /> The Rose Tattoo is Williams' first full-length comedy which he called his "love-play to the world." It concerns a Sicilian widow from the Gulf Coast and her attempts to protect her attractive young daughter while dealing with her own renewed passions. This draft was completed after learning that Elia Kazan had passed on directing the play to do a film with Arthur Miller a snub that greatly disheartened Williams. Nevertheless the play which debuted on Broadway in early 1951 won Tony Awards for best play as well as best actor and best actress awards for Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton. A 1955 film version was also a success starring Burt Lancaster and Anna Magnani who won the Oscar for best actress. unknown
190736Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog 2002. Deluxe limited edition binding with 9 signed and numbered Kyffin Williams linocuts First edition numbered XVI out of XX copies of the deluxe variant binding by Alan Wood produced to a design by Kyffin Williams. The book is signed in pencil by Kyffin Williams on the page of introductory text and signed by Alan Wood on the colophon page. Designed by Williams in collaboration with David Vickers and printed on T. H. Saunders Waterford mould-made paper this variant binding makes up 20 of the total 295 copies produced. This edition includes a separate suite of 9 loose plates each numbered 16/85 and signed in pencil with initials by Kyffin Williams sheet sizes measuring 22.7 cm x 26.5 cm. Oblong quarto. Illustrated throughout with linocuts by Kyffin Williams including 25 full-page one folding and 6 in two colours together with a separate suite of 9 plates each numbered in pencil and signed with the artist's initials loose as issued. Original black full morocco with inset leather illustration to front and back covers grey suede paste-downs illustrated endpapers fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Suite of plates held within card chemise. Book and plates contained together in publisher's solander box with plates in a separate compartment at the base. Fine. hardcover
48950Macao : Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository 1842. Octavo 220 x 145 mm recent half calf over marbled papered boards spine with gilt-ruled bands and contrasting title label lettered in gilt; separate title-leaves in Chinese characters and in English dedication leaf pp. ix 1 blank 287 1 colophon; one folding table with Chinese characters; text in English and Chinese; deaccession stamps of King's College London and SOAS London to English title verso of Chinese title and colophon; a fine example. Rare first edition of Samuel Wells Williams' first book on China an important early guide to learning the Chinese language for English speakers. The American Presbyterian missionary and linguist Samuel Wells Williams 1812-1884 arrived in China in 1833 as supervisor of the printing press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Canton. He later served as editor of The Chinese Repository; collaborated with Bridgman on the Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect 1842; assisted Walter Medhurst in completing his English-Chinese Dictionary 1848; served as Secretary of the United States Legation to China from 1855; wrote A tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton dialect 1856; played a key role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Tientsin which ensured toleration of both Chinese and foreign Christians; and on his return to America was appointed the first Professor of Chinese language and literature in the United States at Yale. Cordier BS 1685; Lust 1067 hardcover
1965122576New York: The Viking Press 1965. First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Bob and Margaret with much love- John Williams Christmas 1970 Denver." The recipients were close friends of the author. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American but as an unlikely existential hero standing like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper in stark relief against an unforgiving world. "One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels .Almost perfect" Bret Easton Ellis. The Viking Press hardcover books
1955140945887New York: New Directions 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing no credit to New York Times on verso on copyright page no credits to Mielziner & Ballard on xii. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the title page. Bound in publisher's original light brown cloth in black lettering. Near Fine with fading to spine and edges slightly bruised ends. Contents lightly toned. Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with rubbing at extremities; light toning to rear cover; several small tape repairs to the blindside. The first appearance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Later adapted into the 1958 thriller starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. New Directions unknown
1962346092New York: New Directions 1962. Unbound. Near Fine. Long galleys. A bit of wear on the last sheet with a short ink notation and some dampstaining on the last few leaves but not affecting the text near fine. Presumably only a handful of copies would have been prepared for the use of the author and publisher. From the library of Edwin Erbe Director of Publicity for New Directions. New Directions unknown
1945Pv1423SIGNED First Edition one of only 5000 first printing copies of this high spot of twentieth century drama. With The Glass Menagerie Williams set out to create a new kind of "Plastic Theatre" a highly expressionistic language of the stage to replace what he saw as the stale conventions of realism. In theatrical terms Williams's approach has been called Brechtian: It uses devices meant to create what the German playwright and dramaturge Bertolt Brecht Threepenny Opera Mother Courage and Her Children called the "alienation effect." Williams succeeded thereby revolutionizing American theater. Within two weeks of opening on Broadway in 1945 the play won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play catapulting Williams to fame. In the words of the citation the award was offered "To Tennessee Williams for his play 'The Glass Menagerie' and its sensitive understanding of four troubled human beings" New York Times.<br />8vo. Original publisher's russet cloth; spine stamped in black and gilt faint dampstain to lower edges of covers evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown; original unclipped dust jacket few small professional repairs verso minor watermarks spine panel gently sunned; morocco–backed folding box with hand–painted onlays of glass horses by the Dragonfly Bindery whose unique custom-bound rare book boxes have been auctioned at the world's leading auction houses notably Christie's. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WILLIAMS on front free endpaper: "For Lon Tinkle / Tennessee Williams". At the time this book was inscribed Lon Tinkle was a book editor and critic with the Dallas Morning News. He went on to become an award–winning novelist focusing mainly on the Southwest and its history. Tinkle was also very active in the Dallas arts community by founding several art programs including the Margo Jones Theatre the namesake of Margo Jones 1911–1955 who was the co–director of the acclaimed first staging of The Glass Menagerie which proved to be a breakthrough production for both her and Williams. Crandell A1.1.a. A highly collectible copy of this literary and dramatic landmark. Book #Pv1423. $6250. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand history and science.<br /><br /> Random House hardcover
1955150533New York: New Directions 1955. First edition first issue of one of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite. Octavo original cloth illustrated. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. An exceptional example uncommon signed. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. "Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Howard Kissel. It was the basis for the 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks starring Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman and Burl Ives. New Directions hardcover
1947188686New York: New Directions 1947. I don't want realism. I want magic! First edition of the playwright's most popular and enduring work. The play premiered on Broadway on 3 December 1947 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama the following year. It was adapted into a celebrated film in 1951 directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. Octavo. Original purple boards spine and front cover lettered in black and white covers with Matisse-inspired design by Alvin Lustig in black and white. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom black cloth slipcase. Spine bumped hint of rubbing to some extremities; spine of unclipped jacket a little sunned head and foot of spine slightly worn with minor nicks and tears small adhesive tape repair on reverse: a near-fine copy in like jacket. Crandell A5.1.a. hardcover
192570966New York:: George H. Doran Company 1925. First edition; No. 77 of 105 large paper copies signed by Margery Williams Bianco. publisher's pale blue boards and white spine with gilt-lettered spine label. There is the very slightest of tanning to the marginal edges of the text block; slight sue to spine; a very attractive copy. . 4to. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; color frontispiece and six tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue overleaves. George H. Doran Company, hardcover
19673115968NP: Self-Published. Fine with no dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. INSCRIBED by Ed Ruscha in the late 1960s to his friend Bob Wetterau manager of the Flax Art store in Westwood Village. Fine in spiral bound creme-colored wrappers. 8vo 60pp. 6 1/4" X 9 1/2" Features 35 b&w photographs. Artist's book produced in an edition of 1000 copies. Exceptionally sharp copy inscribed by Ed Ruscha during the 'young artist' period of his career. ; 6 1/4" X 9 1/2"; 60 pages . Self-Published paperback
1947100019New York: New Directions 1947. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good or better price-clipped dust jacket with a little edgewear and slight tanning to the spine. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Pulitzer Prize-winning drama highspot basis for innumerable revivals and an explosive Elia Kazan film featuring Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. Ironically Brando in his signature performance was the only one of the quartet who didn't win an Oscar. New Directions hardcover
1902420733San Francisco Santa Clara and Yosemite National Park 1902. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong folio. Measuring 14.5" x 11.5". String-tied cloth boards with "Photographs" in gilt on front board. Contains 167 albumen photographs printed on high gloss photographic paper. Introductory presentation photograph that reads: "To Mabel from Bert" on front pastedown followed by 103 images of the San Francisco Bay Area; 29 images of Santa Clara; and 34 images of the Yosemite area. Sizes vary although most are a variant of 3" x 4". A few have been artfully trimmed and perhaps about one half of the images have been captioned. The final image is of a well-dressed young man seated on a swing captioned: "Yours Truly Albert L. Williams." Original string ties present but detached modest wear on the boards the presentation inscription is a bit smeared but still readable some of the images show some fading but overall a near fine and very pleasing album.<br /> <br /> Our research reveals that Albert L. Williams b. circa 1877 was California-born at various times a manufacturer of gloves and/or salesman of gentleman's furnishings. He was married to Mabel sometime between 1902 and 1906. By the time this album was compiled most amateur photographers had switched to more easily usable Kodak cameras and technology. Williams's continued use of the albumen process indicates some devotion to the more complex process and a seriousness about his photography.<br /> <br /> The album is divided into three sections the first shows San Francisco and surrounding area: the Bay Alcatraz Mill Valley the Sutro Baths the Cliff House Land's End Fisherman's Wharf Mission Delores Golden Gate Park with buffalo and elk grazing the Tea Garden and the Boathouse. Notable images include the Night Illumination of City Hall the interior of the cavernous Ferry Depot and nine images of Spanish-American War soldiers - likely the 1st California Volunteer Regiment - marching and at camp preparing to disembark for Manilla with several images of the SS City of Peking and SS City of Sydney troopships in the Harbor. Other subjects include the lighthouses at Tiburon and Point Bonito a few images of the campus of the University of California at Berkeley and the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Berkeley.<br /> <br /> The final two sections feature the "Santa Clara Valley" with many bucolic images showing rustic tents and cabins along the Los Gatos Creek; the town of Wrights including the creek and railroad; and assorted shots of the Russian River the San Lorenzo River Camp Taylor Guerneville and Glen Wood. The final section of "Yosemite and the Big Trees" include Yosemite Falls El Capitan Balance Rock Wawona Cascades from Vernal Falls the Three Brothers the Cap of Liberty and Nevada Falls the Dead Giant Glacier Point the Grizzly Giant Bridal Veil Fall Half Dome in the Sierra Mountains the Merced River and Glacier Point.<br /> <br /> A nice group of unusually fine and lovingly compiled images exclusively devoted to California. hardcover
1924594070Garden City: George H. Doran Company 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early American edition issued before Doran and Doubleday merged in 1927. Full-page and double-page color illustrations by William Nicholson. Very near fine in a nice very good example of the exceptionally uncommon dust jacket with light but consistent edgewear and tears with one older small paper tape repair on the inside. A very scarce early American printing seldom found with jacket. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1947161520New York: New Directions 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped price remains. Few small open tears along panel edges. Shop label on bottom of rear pastedown. Rubbing along top/bottom of boards edges. New Directions hardcover
CNAP056dSan Francisco: The Arion Press 1998. Hardcover. New. KendrickMel. 10 inches square 106 pages including 42 unnumbered pages for the 21 leaves bearing the prints. The types are Stymie Bold for the text and Franklin Gothic for display in Monotype and hand composition. The paper is German mouldmade Zerkall. Proofs of the woodblock prints were photographically reduced to approximately 62% and made into photopolymer plates. The type and plates were printed by letterpress in black ink. Red ink is used on the title page. The binding is a black goatskin spine with title stamped in red with boards covered with laser-cut veneer replicas of woodblocks by Kendrick inked in black. Numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of 300. This item includes the woodblock "Coupling" which was limited an edition of 20 copies plus 5 artist's proofs and 5 publisher's proofs and is accompanied by a copy of the book. Williams one of the most important poets of this century wrote this book of prose-poetry in 1917. He reflects on daily events over the course of a year his readings thoughts observations. To these statements made in language plain-spoken yet rising to the beauty and imagination of his poetry he appended further comments or interpretations to make them more intelligible to others. An essay in which Williams explains himself as a figure within the modern movement was added as a prologue. The critic Lawrence Kart claims that the great poetry Williams achieved "would not have been possible without the eruptive prose of 'Kora in Hell'." <br /> <br /> The book includes prints by contemporary artist Mel Kendrick whose own work is in the modernist lineage. Twenty-one images from three series of woodblock prints each involving seven separate blocks in the form of long vertical sheets that can be rolled up like scrolls have been separated and each occupy the recto page of a leaf in the book with pages of text in between. <br /> <br /> "Coupling" the long woodblock print as originally conceived by Kendrick in the scroll format measures 99 1/2 by 27 1/2 inches and was printed by hand by Stacy Petty and Robert Fisher at the artist's studio in New York City using black ink on Kozo natural a Japanese paper. The print is in a tube covered in oak veneer inked in black with a black goatskin cap stamped with titling in red.<br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover
147834Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 2010. First edition of this analysis of the American work-family conflict. Octavo original half cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the half-title page “To Justice Ginsburg with admiration and thanks for your work. Joan Williams Sept. 2011.†American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.†a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination voting rights and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia 1996 which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc. 2000 in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. "In this sensible and erudite book Williams adds the crucial dimensions of men's activities and differences by class to the work-family debate" Michael Kimmel author of 'Manhood in America'. Harvard University Press hardcover
