HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
Speeches.
"In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire": First Edition of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Speeches; Inscribed by Him
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1896.
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First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Mrs. Bryer, from her friend and servant, O.W. Holmes, Sept. 11, 1897." In very good condition, bookplate, small repair to the spine, partially removed stamp to the top edge. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise case. An important collection of speeches, the first being Holmes' celebrated 1884 Memorial Day address in memory of his fellow Harvard men of the 20th Mass.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a unanimous Court in the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States, and is one of the most influential American common law judges, honored during his lifetime in Great Britain as well as the United States. Holmes retired from the Court at the age 90, making him the oldest Justice in the Supreme Court's history. He also served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was Weld Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, of which he was an alumnus.
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