Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Signed Presentation Copy.
Inscribed by Frankfurter to the Duchess of Buccleuch Frankfurter, Felix [1882-1965]. Felix Frankfurter Reminisces: An Intimate Portrait as Recorded in Talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips. New York: Reynal & Company, [1960]. [ix], 310 pp. Cloth in worn and chipped dust jacket, light edgewear to extremities, internally clean, presentation inscription from Frankfurter to Mary ("Molly") Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch, to front free endpaper. $450. * First edition, sixth printing. The inscription reads: "For Molly Buccleuch,/ whose new friendship/ has given me such delight/ that it almost reconciles me/ to the loss of not having known/ her all these years./ Washington, D.C./ October 9, 1961/ Felix Frankfurter." This incisive and fascinating memoir was transcribed from a series of interviews with Phillips conducted for the Columbia University Oral History Research Department. The only commercially published oral history conducted with a United States Supreme Court justice, it traces his life and career and records his thoughts on such topics as religion and the function of judges.
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