![]() ![]() “I was hoping I would find books that were important in her career.”Ī highlight of the auction is a first edition of feminist activist Gloria Steinem’s 2015 memoir, My Life on the Road, with an inscription that reads, “To dearest Ruth-who paved the road for us all-with a lifetime of love and gratitude-Gloria.” Per Daniel Cassady of the Art Newspaper, the sale also includes books authored by fellow Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor, Neil Gorsuch and Antonin Scalia. “I was hoping I would find law books,” Williamson tells People. Also up for sale are works by Leo Tolstoy and Alexis de Tocqueville, as well as annotated tomes from the justice’s time as a Harvard University law student. ![]() ![]() Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye Toni Morrison’s Beloved, with a personal note from the author to Ginsburg and her husband, Marty and D.H. Items in the collection include such novels as J.D. Ginsburg’s annotated edition of the 1957–58 Harvard Law Review is expected to fetch between $2,500 and $3,500. apartment after other things were dispersed to institutions.” … What we have are the books that were on the library shelves in the D.C. “The Supreme Court archives have a tremendous amount of her material. “They found institutional homes for a lot of her things,” Williamson adds. Williamson tells People’s Aaron Parsley that a mutual acquaintance connected Bonhams with the Ginsburg family, which offered the auction house the justice’s library after her death in September 2020. “Justice Ginsburg’s library is no different, as it records her evolution from student (and voracious reader) to lawyer and law professor, to judge and finally, justice of the United States Supreme Court.” “A person’s library can give us a sense of who the individual is and how she came to be,” says Catherine Williamson, director of Bonhams’ book department, in a statement. The trove features legal textbooks, photos, feminist literature and other documents spanning some 60 years of Ginsburg’s career, reports Harriet Sherwood for the Guardian. More than 1,000 books from the personal collection of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are up for auction at Bonhams. ![]()
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