The sale includes RGB's heavily annotated law tomes and a number of signed classics.
“A person’s library can give us a sense of who the individual is and how she came to be,” Catherine Williamson, director of Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts department, said in a statement. “Justice Ginsburg’s library is no different, as it records her evolution from a student to lawyer and law professor, to judge and finally, Justice of the United States Supreme Court.”
One such book is Ginsburg’s personal copy of Harvard Law Review, published the year she was on its staff. It will be auctioned alongside inscribed books relating to the important cases she adjudicated, including Citizens United, Bush v. Gore and Lilly Ledbetter’s fair pay lawsuit.The sale also includes a number of first editions and landmark feminist classics. You can expect everything from J. D. Salinger’s.
First edition of Gloria Steinem’s “My Life on the Road,” signed and inscribed to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The lots, which will be sold without reserve, carry rather attainable estimates. Toni Morrison’s, for example, which is signed and inscribed to “Ruth and Marty Ginsburg,” has a relatively modest high estimate of $500. The entire sale, meanwhile, is expected to achieve at least $60,000, though Williamson predicts it may do many times that amount.
RGB, who once said, “Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life,” would no doubt be happy just knowing her collection will continue to inspire and inform.
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