Mr Justice Holmes and The Supreme Court, Inscribed by Frankfurter

1938. Inscribed by Frankfurter to Arthur Meier Schlesinger and Elizabeth Schlesinger Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. Mr. Justice Holmes and The Supreme Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1938. [viii], 137 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original cloth, blind frames to boards, gilt title to spine. Spine ends bumped and lightly worn, spine lettering dulled. Light toning to interior, bookplate of Arthur Meier Schlesinger to front pastedown, presentation inscription from Frankfurter to Schlesinger and Elizabeth Schlesinger to front free endpaper, set of Frankfurter images with caption clipped from a newspaper to verso, with some offsetting to adjacent leaf, the half-title. $1,250. * First edition. The inscription reads: "For/ Elizabeth and/ Arthur Schlesinger,/ devoted listeners/ and otherwise devoted/ friends, with the warm/ regards of/ F.F." Mr. Justice Holmes is Frankfurter's finest statement of his admiration. This and other books did much to establish Holmes's posthumous reputation. Arthur Meier Schlesinger [1888-1965] was a prominent American historian who taught at Harvard from 1924 to 1954. Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger [1886-1977], his wife, was a notable feminist and one of the first scholars of women's history. They were part of Frankfurter's social circle at Harvard, along with such faculty luminaries as Josef Schumpeter and Alfred North Whitehead.