Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's personal library sold at an auction on Thursday for a total of more than $2.35 million, with one prized book from her collection selling for over $100,000.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Statess personal library sold at an auction on Thursday for a total of more than $2.35 million, with one prized book from her collection selling for over $100,000.. It also left a pivotal seat open on the Supreme Court, leading to Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the bench within weeks of the 2020 election.
same day that sitting Justice Stephen Breyer formally announced his decision to retire in a letter to President Joe BidenThe sale had featured dozens of lots of "books, photographs and ephemera" from Ginsburg's private library, including textbooks from her days as a law student and literature that she and her late husband Marty Ginsburg had enjoyed during their marriage,Among the items on auction was Ginsburg's copy of the 1957-58 Harvard Law Review, which sold for $100,312.
Works such as J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” and David Herbert Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” were among the novels included, alongside volumes by Tolstoy and De Tocqueville., Catherine Williamson, a specialist of fine books and manuscripts at Bonhams, said Ginsburg's collection attracted bids "beyond our wildest dreams."
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