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1965rif. 568571965. U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Supreme Court. Portrait Photograph of Lyndon Johnson Inscribed To Supreme Court Justice and UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg Johnson Lyndon Baines 1908-1973. Goldberg Arthur 1908-1990. Photograph of Johnson Inscribed to Goldberg. N.p. N.d. 1965. 8" x 10" color portrait photograph printed credit in the image at bottom left glazed and framed in tasteful black-and-gold wooden 16" x 19" frame. Bold inscription and full signature below image. A few tiny nicks to frame image fine. $5000. The undated inscription reads "To Arthur Goldberg-/ With the high regard and affection/ of his friend-/ Lyndon B. Johnson." Appointed by President Kennedy Goldberg was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1962 to 1965 and one of the most significant justices of the twentieth century. In his three terms on the bench he pushed the Court toward a broader construction of personal rights a course it followed over the following two decades. He is best known for his influential 1963 internal Supreme Court memorandum that condemned capital punishment as an example of "cruel and unusual punishment" as defined by the Eighth Amendment and his opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 which argued against a Connecticut law banning the use of contraceptives because it violated an un-enumerated right to privacy guaranteed by the Ninth Amendment. The memo initiated a wave of litigation and legislation that led to the abolition of the death penalty in several states; the Griswold opinion laid the foundation for Roe v. Wade 1973 which established a women's right to have an abortion. When Adlai Stevenson Ambassador to the United Nations died in 1965 President Johnson decided to appoint Goldberg to fill his seat. Johnson's larger plan was to put Abe Fortas on the bench because he knew Fortas would defend his Great Society programs and spy on the Court for him. Probably a recipient of the legendary Johnson "treatment" Goldberg was persuaded to resign while flying to Stevenson's funeral on Air Force One. Goldberg went on to say that he accepted the UN Ambassadorship in order to resolve the Vietnam Conflict. This photograph may be a memento of that 1965 flight or one of the tools Johnson used to persuade Goldberg. unknown books
1960rif. 4087Iowa 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. Stone Wall Press hardcover
rif. B113987s.l., s.d. [19th cy.] [6bl] + [740] + [14bl] pp., containing 242 biographies of the Great Councils members (each starting on top of the page with their coat of arms (pre-printed, 220 of them handcoloured), followed by 1 to 3 pages of text in French) and followed by a chronological and alphabetical list of the members, included is also a text of 9 pages: Translation du Grand Conseil à Namur à cause des troubles des Pays-Bas le 7 juin 1580, 40x27 cm., 19th cy. hardcover binding (spine in vellum, marbled boards, edges bit rubbed, small defect at lower end of spine), very neat and uniform handwriting, text and interior is clean and bright, no date mentioned but most probably dating from the first half of or mid 19th cy., well preserved and in good condition, [The Great Council of the Netherlands at Malines was the highest court in the Burgundian Netherlands. It was founded by Charles the Bold in 1473 and disbound after his death. It was re-erected in 1503 by Philip the Handsome in 1503 and its influence and importance grew till the Eighty Years War, after which its power declined and it was finally abolished during the French Revolution. The composition of the Great Council was quite stable throughout the period of its existence, and consisted of a chairman, 15 to 16 councillors, one procureur-general, one fiscal advocate, some secretaries and clercs, advocates and a Huissier de justice], weight: 4.3kg., B113987
1951rif. 013972Miami: 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. Pandanus Press paperback
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1953rif. 140785New 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
1999rif. 49091De Vecchi, 1999. Format 15x21 cm, cartonnage souple a rabats, 132 pages. Tres bon etat.
RENNES, J. Plihon et L. Hervé / PARIS, A. Picard - 1896 - In-8 - 1/2 reliure - Dos à 5 nerfs avec titre doré - Plats et gardes marbrés - Couverture conservée - Eau-Forte de M. B. de La Pinelais - Bandeaux, lettrines, culs-de-lampe - XXIV & 340 pages - Très bel exemplaire
RENNES, J. Plihon et L. Hommay / PARIS, A. Picard - 1902 - In-8 - 1/2 reliure - Dos à 5 nerfs avec titre doré - Plats et gardes marbrés - Couverture conservée - Bandeaux, lettrines, culs-de-lampe - XXI & 468 pages - Très bel exemplaire
