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1953140785New York: Simon and Schuster 1953. First edition of Lady and the Tramp boldly signed by Walt Disney Bill Justice and four of Disney's nine old men: Frank Thomas Ollie Johnston Eric Larson and Woolie Reitherman. Octavo original cloth with charming illustrations by Joe G. Rinaldi. Signed by Walt Disney on the title page in crayon and on the front free endpaper by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in crayon Woolie Reitherman in pencil and Eric Larson and Bill Justice in pen. Foreword by Walt Disney. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A unique example. Lady and the Tramp tells the story of a female American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined upper-middle-class family and a male stray mongrel called the Tramp. Greene the editor and manager of the newspaper syndicate King Features was the author of the short story “Happy Dan The Whistling Dog†which came to Walt Disney’s attention. At Disney’s request Greene developed the story into a full-length novel on which the film one of the most popular of Disney’s animated features was based. The sequence of Lady and Tramp sharing a plate of spaghetti — climaxed by an accidental kiss as they swallow opposite ends of the same strand of spaghetti — is considered an iconic scene in American film history. Lady and the Tramp was named number 95 out of the "100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time" by the American Film Institute in their 100 Years.100 Passions special as one of only two animated films to appear on the list along with Disney's Beauty and the Beast which ranked 34th. In 2010 Rhapsody called its accompanying soundtrack one of the all-time great Disney and Pixar soundtracks. In June 2011 TIME named it one of "The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films." Simon and Schuster hardcover
1951013972Miami: Pandanus Press 1951. First Edition. wraps. Light wrinkling along yapped edges. Fine. Plain stitched blue wraps with a printed paper label at the bottom front cover. Designed set by hand and printed in an impression of 240 copies by Preston H. Dettman. Very scarce first book by one of America's premier poets preceding his first regularly published book THE SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES by nine years. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author close to publication in green ink "for Bill Wight with good wishes--" and INSCRIBED and SIGNED again in 1990 to another person. <br/><br/> Pandanus Press paperback
19604087Iowa City IA: Stone Wall Press 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First edtion. One of only 20 copies printed on Rives Heavy a French mould made paper bound in full black Oasis goatskin with blind-stamped initials "WK" on the front cover gilt lettering on the spine. Completely fine in the publisher's paper slipcase trivial shelfwear. There were 180 regular copies printed on Rivers Light and bound in paper boards. The printer Kim Merker later said of these: "Another mistake we made was the in the binding using a very fragile japanese paper for the side. If you left it in the sun for three minutes the color would fade." Merker 12. Printed and bound thus this is a real American fine press highspot and a great edition of Weldon Kees' marvelous poetry. <br/><br/> Stone Wall Press hardcover
1943111721New York: Random House 1943. First edition of Dahl’s rare first book with 14 vibrant full-page illustrations by Walt Disney Productions. Quarto original half cloth pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy inscribed by Disney animator Bill Justice on the half-title page with a large drawing of a Gremlin "Sorry Ray That's a lousy Gremlin Bill Justice." Justice joined Walt Disney Studios as an animator in 1937 and worked on such features as Fantasia The Three Caballeros Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from Bambi and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. He was the director of The Truth About Mother Goose Noah's Ark and A Symposium On Popular Songs all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject Cartoon. In total Justice worked on 57 shorts and 19 features. Good in the rare original dust jacket with some chips and wear. Dahl was sent to Washington in 1942 as an assistant air attaché for the British Embassy. After having a story published anonymously in the Saturday Evening Post he was encouraged by C. S. Forester. He produced The Gremlins a children’s story expanding on a mythical creature enshrined for years in RAF lore notwithstanding Dahl’s claims to have invented the word and sent it to Sidney Bernstein the head of the British Information Service who sent it on to Walt Disney. Disney decided to make it into a movie at one point bringing Dahl to Hollywood to work on the screenplay. The story was published in Cosmopolitan in December of 1942 and as a book by Random House six months later. The film project however was sidelined and has never been produced. The story was received positively: Eleanor Roosevelt read it to her grandchildren and invited Dahl to the White House. Random House hardcover
196410873Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 888pp. illustrated. Very good in the publisher's navy cloth with the front inner hinge cracked but holding and a few ink markings to the front paste-down. Else crisp and clean. INSCRIBED on the title page by Chief Justice Earl Warren "For Don J. Campbell with the best wishes of Earl Warren." Campbell was an advertising salesman for the Dallas Morning News. According to Warren Commission Exhibit number 2436 Campbell testified that Jack Ruby was in his office around 12:00 noon when Kennedy's motorcade was proceeding and just before he was assassinated. Campbell testified that Ruby who was a regular advertising customer was complaining about the seedy nature of his business and also bragging about some of his political connections see Campbell's full official testimony here: https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh25/pdf/WH25_CE_2436. pdf The Warren Commission Report is often found signed by future President Gerald Ford who sat on the commission but rarely found signed by Warren. This is an appealing copy with provenance relating to the assassination. . Government Printing Office hardcover
19511688Miami: Pandanus Press 1951. First edition. 8 10 6 pp. Hand-sewn blue wrappers printed title label on front cover. One of 240 copies hand-set and printed by Preston H. Dettman. Some edgewear and surface wear to covers very minor old staining contents clean. The very rare first publication by an important American poet preceding his first regularly published book The Summer Anniversaries by nine years. Justice earned his PhD at Iowa in 1954 and was long associated with the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Despite the limitation quite scarce; OCLC locates eleven copies. Pandanus Press unknown
1951190755Miami FL: Pandanus Press 1951. First edition. Softcover. Justice's first book printed in an edition of 240 copies by Preston H. Dettman. A slim collection of nine poems that precedes his first regularly published book "The Summer Anniversaries." Justice went on to win the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry A very good copy in blue wrappers with paper label affixed to the front cover and with laid in folded sheets with some slight faint foxing but lacking the single thread that holds the pages to the wrappers. Signed by Justice on the title page and with his minor holograph correction to one poem. Housed in a custom three quarter leather clamshell box. Pandanus Press unknown
19595932671959. Unbound. Fine. Original wedding invitation measuring 4¼" x 5¾" in an unprinted envelope and with a slip of protective tissue paper all contained in the original mailing envelope addressed to poet Donald Justice. Roth has hand written Justice's address on the front and he has Signed his own return address on the back: "Roth 128 E 10th NYC N.Y." Overall near fine with the contents like new but the mailing envelope itself torn from opening with two miniscule stains on the front and Roth's address a touch smeared. An invitation to Roth's first marriage to Margaret Williams in 1959 just two months before the publication of his first book Good-bye Columbus. A nice connection between two Pulitzer Prize winners and a rare piece of ephemera. unknown
199236670Brussels Belgium: Hotel De Ventes Horta S. A. / Etude De Me. E. Debray Huissier De Justice. New. 1992. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED Text in French; 516 lots some of which are illustrated in color. Among the artists represented: G. Morren; R. Wytsman; A. Hallet; F. Roland; and others. -- with a bonus offer-- . Hotel De Ventes Horta, S. A. / Etude De Me. E. Debray Huissier De Justice paperback
198656287U. S. Government Printing Office. As New. 1986. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - Volume II: Pages i- v pages 1037 - 1960. -- with a bonus offer-- . U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
199770097U. S. Department of Justice / National Institute of Justice. New. 1997. Softcover. 0788172573 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE - 132 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . U. S. Department of Justice / National Institute of Justice paperback
1917144634Dawson: Judge Macalulay 1917. Folio. 18 pages of hand corrected typescript on light gray paper. A bit soiled but overall clean and not brittle. Two pages of folio hand written notes in Justice Macaulay's hand. Three smaller pages of hand written notes towards the end. Signed in a hand I cannot make out. The whole bundle held together with the original paper clip. Included with the bundle is a long typed transcript of an article entitled "The Flowering Stump" by Vernon La Chance published in Maclean's in 15 October 1933 Macaulay was a Judge of the Territorial Court Dawson. He was elevated to the Bench in 1902 and preceded over the Court in the Yukon Territory for 39 years. This document provides Macalulay's report on the trial and appeal of Rokuichi Yoshioka a Japanese born Dawson fox farmer. He was accused tried and convicted of the crime by a jury. The trial was 6 days long after which the accused was convicted and hanged on the 23rd of November 1917. I am not sure what happened with the appeal. Although not a Gold Rush item certainly a very interesting document related to a murder in Dawson City. It must have been sensational and a major event in Dawson. Constable Stallworthy of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police was the investigating officer and provided testimony during the trial. Over the years I have had a number of primary source documents like this but nothing for Dawson and only one other murder before. This document or another copy was addressed To The Honorable The Secretary of State for Canada in Ottawa. Usually documents like this do not survive. A rare and interesting item. 1917 Judge Macalulay unknown
1974020469New York: Macmillan Publishing Co. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Second Printing. Edited with an introduction by Howard Moss. Short story contributions by 22 contemporary leading American poets. This copy SIGNED by 6 of them on the front endpaper: John Hollander Donald Justice James Merrill W. S. Merwin Mona Van Duyn and Richard Wilbur. Additionally SIGNED by 5 others mostly poets who had nothing to do with this volume: Mark Strand William Stafford W. D. Snodgrass Edward Albee and Andre Dubus who adds "not in it." A total of 11 important writers have SIGNED this interesting anthology. <br/><br/> Macmillan Publishing Co. hardcover
1936159271936. Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism. Facts on Nazi Germany 1936 anti-Nazi report documenting early concentration camp discipline and political repression under the Third Reich issued to mobilize American awareness during a period of widespread isolationist sentiment in the United States. Produced three years before the outbreak of World War II the document records one of the earliest organized efforts by an American advocacy group to circulate evidence of Nazi violence specifically targeting the treatment of political prisoners in the initial concentration camp system established after 1933. The report identifies Esterwegen as a site of incarceration for political opponents and includes translated internal regulations that detail punitive discipline forced labor expectations and execution threats directed at prisoners categorized as political dissidents Jews and alleged enemies of the state.<br /> <br /> Editorial Board of the Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism. Facts on Nazi Germany. Number Three. New York: Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism October 15 1936. Mimeographed document. The publication consists of 11 mimeographed pages and includes contemporary marginalia and underlining in pencil indicating close reading by an early owner. The text opens with an editorial statement noting that the committee had obtained the material "a few days ago" followed by an appeal to American audiences: "By publishing this horrendous document we wish to bring to the consciousness of the American public the plight of the German people under barbarian Hitler rule.the vast majority of the German population looks to the world outside particularly America for moral support." The reprinted German directives emphasize coercion and ideological enforcement stating "Tolerance means weakness.ruthlessness will be exercised when the interests of the Fatherland are at stake." Detailed disciplinary measures include confinement on bread and water corporal punishment and execution for acts such as alleged mutiny or resistance. Specific infractions are enumerated including penalties for writing more than two letters monthly speaking disrespectfully to guards or minor breaches of barracks discipline demonstrating the totalizing regulatory system imposed within the camp.<br /> <br /> Issued during a period when U.S. public opinion remained divided over involvement in European affairs this document contributes to the study of early transnational anti-fascist networks exile politics and information dissemination prior to the consolidation of wartime alliances. Advocacy groups such as the Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism attempted to counter limited press coverage and official reluctance to confront Nazi Germany by distributing translated materials that documented internal repression. The inclusion of Esterwegen regulations situates the publication within the early development of the concentration camp system before its later expansion and transformation during the war. Minor edge wear horizontal crease last page detached with toning and small losses at the fold and scattered pencil markings; overall good to very good. A scarce example of prewar American anti-Nazi advocacy in printed form with documented engagement by a contemporary reader. unknown
1916000139Pomeroy Ohio OH. Fair. 1916. Cloth. On offer is the handwritten manuscript diary of Mrs. J.P. Bradbury Pomeroy Ohio 1916 and as found on genealogical sites Mrs. Bradbury 1853-1918 being Emma L. Woods the widow and second wife of Justice Joseph Perry Bradbury 1838-1915 of the Ohio Supreme Court. Research finds Justice Bradbury and his family in the 1880 census it said that he was then married to his first wife Sarah E. Bradbury who was an invalid and that two other people lived in the house Emma Woods as sister so it seems clear to be his first wifes sister. It also lists Elizabeth Blackwell servant living at the home. The diary itself is written just a few months after the death of Joseph. Her grief as she puts it is too much to bear and almost everyday she writes about him and missing him. She calls him Petty for a nickname too. I thought it was Perry because of his middle name but on closer inspection it is Petty. She starts out her entries on January and writes on almost every available space for everyday see scan but then suddenly stops her entries on July 24th. Entries are extremely interesting probing what it is like for a newly widowed woman who seemed to be deeply in love with her husband as one will see in the following excerpts: How am I to get along without my own dear Petty . I am homesick for my dear Petty. I do not see how I am to go on this way. Petty dear if I could only have kept you how happy I would be as it is I am so depressed Mr. Quincy came in to do some hauling of stuff left from the old house. Mrs. Barbara Wehe mother of Mrs. Frank Hudson of Chicago was brought here for burial Friday of last week. Mrs. Wehe used to live here in Pomeroy and was quite well-known. How I do miss my own dear Petty and when I think I could not do one thing to keep him it almost kills me. Dearest Petty The river is very high. Word came this morning that the steamer Kanawha had struck a part of dam no. 19 just below Parkersburg. In three minutes time the boat capsized. She lay upon her side. The number lost is estimated at from 12 to 25. Mrs. E.C. Atkinson of Racine and a lady whom I knew very well was lost. Her husband saved. I did not know any of the other people. It was a terrible calamity . some days I think I will fly to pieces. I am so very nervous and oh how I do miss my dear dear Petty. I just think I must see his dear sweet face oh; my poor old heart aches all the time for him. How I loved him just six months since my dear Petty left me. Some days I think I can not stand it. I just must see him. No one knows how I miss my dear sweet Petty. How I did love him. He was so sweet and good to me Dorothy and Mary Etta went out for walk into see the doctor. The town is full of sick people. Doctors are just rushed to death just one year ago today my dear Petty fell and hurt his arm. This was the beginning of his going down. Oh how I miss him. It was the 14th of February but it was a Sunday. Oh how I miss Petty . This was my dearest husband 78th birthday. Oh I have missed him . one year ago today my Petty was in bed with a sprained arm and now he has gone from me. Oh how I do miss my dear sweet Petty who was so good to me . I am still so blue and miss Perry so much today. I just feel as if I must see him. I do not see how I am to go on without him. Dear dear Petty and I miss Dorothy so much too . I sincerely hope I may be taken to my heavenly home for I know I never could stand it. I hope my life will not be long. I do not want to live to be a real old woman and not a burden to anyone. If I could have gone with my Petty how much better it would have been perhaps. I get dreadfully blue some days .Bert Millen brought the deed for the farm for me to sign today. I wish Petty could have settled all up with Dale Roberts. I feel a little shaky about the settlement of that . River still rising and there will be between 48 and 50 feet of water here. It will be in my cellar tonight. Took the gas heater out this morning from the furnace. The Creek is up around the Bradford House and water and Mrs. Geyers seller. Mr. A.L. Willock deputy sheriff died this afternoon and leaves a wife and daughter. A year ago this evening my own dear Petty and I walked down to Dr. Henlows Office. Coming home Petty wanted to be weighed so we went to Mr. Stockmores seed store and he weighed only 148 pounds. Oh how I did hate to see that. It made Petty feel badly . Dearest husband how I have missed you this day. How I would love to see you. Oh Petty Petty how am I to go on without you. This has been a very gloomy day . Republican convention is still on in Chicago. Hope Roosevelt will not get the nomination. I miss my Petty so much. He would always tell me about how the conventions were conducted. He usually went to them. Petty how I do miss you . I went up to see Dr. Jane but she was out. So I whet down to see Mrs. Plantz. She is not very well. I talked to her about the lump in my breast. After I came home and went for Dr. Gribble. He made an examination and found a growth but advised me to see how it will be in a few weeks from now. It worries me very much. Now to think I have not my Petty to go to and talked it over. Oh dear Petty maybe it won't be very long until we will be together again . Just one year ago this 17th day of July my dear Petty closed his eyes in death. I will never forget how sweet he looked that morning and how blue his eyes were some days I think I can not stand it I must see him and hear his sweet voice. Dear dear Petty perhaps it won't be long until I will be with my loved ones. I pray that my Father in heaven will only keep me from long-suffering with this dreadful thing that has come to me. Better I could go before I get to be a care and hope I won't have to suffer with it. How my dear Petty would worry if he knew this." Many names listed; Blackmore DeWolfe Crow Planty Helen Russell Frank Hudson Atkinson Hollis Johnston Fisher Minister Dr. Jane Gulliford Horvitz Helen Shrewsby Scott Dr. James McCullough Remington Keizer Dave Geyer Helen and Ray Clifton Mary Williams Asa Bradbury John Kasper Bert Miller Dale Roberts Antoinette Osborn Arnold Roy Brown Edith Peters Ruth Jacobs Stanbury Lillian Roush and more. Condition of this diary most of the pages from January 1 of February 25 are torn on the seam. Some of the pages are also loose but the writing can easily be made out. 4" x 5". ; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA LEGAL LAW ATTORNEY JUSTICE JURISPRUDENCE OHIO OH SUPREME COURT PIONEER MID WEST MIDWEST ; Signed by Autograph . hardcover
199751474Aralia Press 1997. Limited . Cloth. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Limited to 170 copies printed by Michael Peich title page and front cover illustrated by poet Donald Justice. Small book quality red cloth with embossed illustration of car on front tiny sticker with names of writers at spine top roughcut pages. On a 3 by 5 card's reverse in neat black ink printing: "Iowa City 5/16/98. Dear Larry Donovan Florida poet and artist Many thanks for the handsome lyre bird the Orpheus of Ornithology now our collection would seem to be complete. The little book accompanying this thanks I hope you will like. The blood-red cover though no doubt appropriate is perhaps a bit garish no All best to you and Dee Florida artist--Don Justice Hope you like the car!"Very Fine. <br/> <br/> Aralia Press hardcover
19772091502135421152Homusho 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 14 Homusho paperback
1960108560The Stone Wall Press 1960. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. #15/200cc. Covers shelfworn and boards faded along edges. The Stone Wall Press hardcover
19432082402113800159Department of Justice Investigative Division 1943. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Department of Justice Investigative Division paperback
196661983Iowa City: privately printed at the Typographic Laboratory of the University of Iowa n.d. 1966. First edition limited to 19 copies this no. 4 8vo pp. 16; 4 drypoint etchings 3 full-page; original blue paper wrappers; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed albeit faintly "For Kim Merker" in an unknown hand. Delaware and Buffalo only in OCLC. privately printed at the Typographic Laboratory of the University of Iowa, n.d. unknown
197138916Washington DC. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1971-1980. Leaves. 16 short typed letters from Chief Justice Warren Burger to Marvin S. Sadik Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Dated between 1971 and 1980 regarding Burger's role in the National Portrait Gallery Commission. Unframed. Condition near fine. All on Supreme Court stationary and signed with initials WBB. . unknown
198802F04003C00047UIndiana University Press 1988-12-01. hardcover. Like New. 7x1x10. No highlighting. Very minimal wear. Indiana University Press hardcover
1967523215New York City: Caterpillar 1967. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Cover by Iris Lezak. Quarto. 44pp. Yellow printed wrappers with shiny yellow taped spine as issued. Very good copy with light vertical crease edgewear and a few spots of moderate wear on spine. Issued as Caterpillar14 and limited to 300 copies variant issue in yellow printed wrappers. From the library of poet David Ignatow with a small label on the inside front wrap. Inscribed by Jackson Mac Low: “For David & Rose on the first day of Summer. Jackson Mac Low 6/21/68.†Also with the contemporary ink notations by Ignatow on the front cover “Czeslaw Milosz Dept. of Slavic Language Literature. U. of Calif. Berkeley Calif." and with some additional ink annotations on rear cover. Uncommon. OCLC locates nine copies. Caterpillar unknown
196445882Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Full leather. Fine. Autograph; 8vo; 4 p.l. 273 pages; This is a specially bound copy of the first edition. Full brown crushed levant morocco five raised bands on the spine title and author stamped in gilt directly in the second and fourth panels -- swirl marbled endpapers top edges gilt. This special volume has an inscription from the author to Abe Fortas soon to be appointed by President Johnson the the United States Supreme Court as an Associate Justice. The inscription is written in ink on the rear free-endpaper upside down -- front the usual point of view. Clearly the volume was flipped over from the normal position and the inscription written after mistakenly opening the rear cover instead of the front. The inscription reads: To carol and abe fortas / -- in deep friendship and regard / signed William S. White". "Carol" was Mrs. Abe Fortas -- the significant and accomplished lawyer Carolyn E. Agger. The handwriting in this unusually-placed inscription gets progressively shakier -- the final word "regard" is nearly illegible. It may have been executed during a social engagement. The author and Abe Fortas had each known Lyndon Johnson well since the 'thirties. William S. White was born in Texas in 1905 attented the Univeristy of Texas in Austin -- and as a working journalist specialising in Washington and the Congress knew the younger Lyndon Johnson since the latter a young Congressional staffer was first elected in as a Congressman from the Tenth district of Texas in 1937 in a special election to fill a seat. Abe Fortas also a contemporary to both journalist White and Lyndon Johnson knew Johnson well as a friend by the time that Fortas represented Johnson before the Supreme Court after Johnson's nomination and election to the U. S. Senate was a matter of dispute in 1948. Lyndon Johnson's rise to power from this initial point in his new Senate career was well understood and covered by William S. White -- writing at that point as a lead Washington journalist for the New York Times. Johnson was selected by his fellow Democrats to be Senate Minority Leader in January of 1953; he became the most junior senator ever elected to this position. White soon wrote a well-regarded study of Johnson's opposite number in the Senate the Republican Majority Leader Robert Taft; White's book 'The Taft Story' was published in 1954 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography May 1955. White's next book brought him even further into Johnson's extraordinary career in the Senate. White published Citadel: The Story of the United States Senate to considerable accaim in 1957. Lyndon Johnson was probably the author's principal living source for this volume -- Johnson in turn saw to it that all newly-elected Senators received a copy of the 'Citidel' -- in hopes that knowledge of the history and ways of the great legislative body might prove useful. If one reads this book in the manner that Washingtonians are said to look at a book -- turning immediately to the index one sees only two references to "Abe Fortas." In the Washington world in which turning to the index is a well-known sport -- this means one of two things. Either the party "indexed" is paripheral or was really a more significant source to the author than either might care to acknowledge. This is clearly a case of the latter. Both references to Fortas in the index are substantial; White uses Lyndon Johnson's first night back in his private house in Washinton after having to take the Presidential Oath of Office on the airplane returning to the Capitol city following the disasterous Presidential trip to Dallas -- as a means of organizing the structure of his first section of the book. Johnson spent much of that evening working the phone in conversations with his fellow Cabinet officers from the suddenly-terminated Kennedy administration. Only a couple of Johnson friends were there with him at "The Elms"-- Fortas was one of this small group. His friendship with the new President never stumbled through many twists and turns right through Johnson's death in 1973. Johnson named Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court; through various circumstances the President's subsequent appointment of Fortas to be Chief Justice. was withdrawn -- but the two men remained great friends and Johnson remained a legal client right to the end. In the final days of Johnson's single term in office he awarded White the Presidential Medal of Freedom -- January 1969. Inscribed books are part of the long-standing Washington system of influence. Many are clearly generated with only minimal contact with either the donor or the book's recipient -- other than a quick thumbing of the index-- as discussed above. This volume is an exception in all respects. For one thing this elegantly-bound book looks better than all but a very few specimens of "the Washington inscribed book" and clearly meant a great deal to the author the subject and the recipient. Fortas kept the book for the two decades remaining of his life. We bought it as his estate sale on R Street about thirty years ago. an unsigned binding but of higher quality in terms of material and workmanship to the usual "gift" bindings presented by publishers to their authors; Signed by Author . Houghton, Mifflin hardcover
19862111902160305834Tachibana shoin 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 500 pages average Size: A5 size Number of books: 5 Tachibana shoin paperback
