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RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S ANNOTATED COPY OF THE 1957-58 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. Harvard Law Review, Volume 71. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Law Review Association, 1957, 1958.. Sold for US$100,312.50 inc. premium

RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S OWN COPY OF HER COLLECTED WRITINGS, MY OWN WORDS. GINSBURG, RUTH BADER. My Own Words. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.. Sold for US$81,562.50 inc. premium

GLORIA STEINEM'S MEMOIR INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. STEINEM, GLORIA. My Life on the Road. New York: Random House, 2015.. Sold for US$52,812.50 inc. premium

RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TEXTBOOK FOR HER CIVIL PROCEDURE CLASS AT HARVARD. SCOTT, AUSTIN WAKEMAN. Fundamentals of Procedure in Actions at Law. New York: Baker Voorhis & Co., 1922.. Sold for US$44,062.50 inc. premium

RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPIES OF THE CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS ON THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT EXTENSION HEARINGS. Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary / House of Representatives ... Extending the Ratification Period for the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment.... Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.. Sold for US$40,312.50 inc. premium

PRESENTATION COPY FROM ANNIE LEIBOVITZ TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. LEIBOVITZ, ANNIE, and SUSAN SONTAG. Women. New York: Random House, 1999.. Sold for US$37,812.50 inc. premium

SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. "They Often Are Half Obscure: The Rights of the Individual and the Legacy of Olive Wendell Holmes." Offprint from San Diego Law Review, Vol 29:3 (1992).. Sold for US$35,312.50 inc. premium

"I'LL FIGHT" SHEET MUSIC INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. WARREN, DIANE. "I'll Fight" (From the Motion Picture RBG). Van Nuys, CA: Alfred, 2018.. Sold for US$35,312.50 inc. premium

SIDNEY POITIER INSCRIBES HIS MEMOIR TO JUSTICE GINSBURG. POITIER, SYDNEY. The Measure of a Man. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.. Sold for US$31,562.50 inc. premium

MORRISON PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. MORRISON, TONI. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.. Sold for US$31,562.50 inc. premium

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1¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TEXTBOOK FOR HER CIVIL PROCEDURE CLASS AT HARVARD. SCOTT, AUSTIN WAKEMAN. Fundamentals of Procedure in Actions at Law. New York: Baker Voorhis & Co., 1922.

2¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TEXTBOOK FOR HER PROPERTY CLASS AT HARVARD. MOYNIHAN, CORNELIUS J. A Preliminary Survey of the Law of Real Property. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1940.

3¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S ANNOTATED COPY OF THE 1957-58 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. Harvard Law Review, Volume 71. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Law Review Association, 1957, 1958.

4¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TEXTBOOK FOR COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL CLASS ON JURISPRUDENCE. PATTERSON, EDWIN W. Jurisprudence: Men and Ideas of the Law. Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, 1953.

5¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF HER FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK. GINSBURG, RUTH BADER, and ANDERS BRUZELIUS. Civil Procedure in Sweden. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965.

6¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF JUSTICE HUGO BLACK'S TREATISE ON DEMOCRACY. BLACK, HUGO LAFAYETTE. A Constitutional Faith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

7¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF THE 1969 RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL YEARBOOK. TRENNER, KATHERYN, editor. Legacy 1969. Paterson, NJ: Progress Associates, 1969.

8¤ — RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF SEXUAL POLITICS. MILLETT, KATE. Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970.

9¤ — "...INFORMING AND INSPIRING WOMEN ACROSS GENERATIONS": OUR BODIES, OURSELVES INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. The Boston Women's Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

12¤ — LEGAL TEXTS USED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. 6 volumes of legal publications:

13¤ — JUDGE RUTH BADER GINSBURG IN THE PRESS. 2 items:

14¤ — SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. "They Often Are Half Obscure: The Rights of the Individual and the Legacy of Olive Wendell Holmes." Offprint from San Diego Law Review, Vol 29:3 (1992).

15¤ — MACKINNON PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. MACKINNON, CATHARINE A. Only Words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

16¤ — HONORARY DEGREE AWARDED TO GINSBURG BY SMITH COLLEGE. Honorary Doctorate "Legum Doctoris" presented to Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Smith College,

17¤ — P.S. 238 IN BROOKLYN. A commemorative album of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's visit to her childhood school in Brooklyn.

18¤ — LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. "Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought." Offprint from Fordham Law Review, Vol 64 (1995): 2.

19¤ — JUSTICE GINSBURG ON WOMEN IN THE JUDICIARY. GINSBURG, RUTH BADER and LAURA W. BRILL. "Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought," reprinted from Fordham Law Review, Volume LXIV, Number 2, November 1995.

20¤ — FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND RUTH BADER GINSBURG. OLSEN, FRANCES E., editor. Feminist Legal Theory. Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995.

21¤ — ANITA HILL ON THE CLARENCE THOMAS HEARINGS, INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. HILL, ANITA FAY, and EMMA COLEMAN JORDAN, editors. Race, Gender and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

22¤ — FOUNDERS DAY TRIBUTE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. "The Washington College of Law Founders Day Tribute." Appearing as American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. 5, no. 1 (1996): 1-7.

23¤ — UNITED STATES V. VIRGINIA (1996): THE VMI CASE. 2 titles on the landmark Virginia Military Institute case, both inscribed by the author to Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

24¤ — CASS SUNSTEIN LAW REVIEW OFFPRINTS INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. SUNSTEIN, CASS. A group of 9 legal offprints and monographs, all inscribed to Ginsburg:

25¤ — LAURENCE TRIBE HARVARD LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. TRIBE, LAURENCE H. "Taking Text and Structure Seriously: Reflections on Free-form Method in Constitutional Interpretation." Offprint from Harvard Law Review, Vol 108:6 (1995).

26¤ — THE OPINIONS OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG. 7 volumes of bound published opinions of Ginsburg as Justice of the Supreme Court,

27¤ — ERICA JONG PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. JONG, ERICA. What Do Women Want? Bread Roses Sex Power. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

28¤ — PRESENTATION COPY FROM ANNIE LEIBOVITZ TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. LEIBOVITZ, ANNIE, and SUSAN SONTAG. Women. New York: Random House, 1999.

29¤ — SIDNEY POITIER INSCRIBES HIS MEMOIR TO JUSTICE GINSBURG. POITIER, SYDNEY. The Measure of a Man. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

30¤ — BUSH V. GORE. 3 books on the 2000 election inscribed by their author to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

31¤ — CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE WAR ON TERROR. 4 titles on the legal issues raised by the war on terrorism:

32¤ — JUSTICE O'CONNOR PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY; and ALAN DAY. Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. New York: Random House, 2001.

33¤ — HONORARY DEGREE AWARDED TO GINSBURG BY BROWN UNIVERSITY. An Honorary Doctorate, Feminam Praeclarissimam Gradu Legum Doctoris, presented to Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Brown University,

34¤ — PRESENTATION COPY FROM SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR TO JUSTICE GINSBURG. O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY, foreword. International Law: A Handbook for Judges. Washington, D.C.: American Society of International Law, 2003.

35¤ — BIOGRAPHY OF CLARENCE THOMAS, INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. FOSKETT, KEN. Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.

36¤ — JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS. 2 titles by/about Clarence Thomas, one inscribed to Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

37¤ — ERWIN CHEMERINSKY PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. CHEMERINSKY, ERWIN. Federal Jurisdiction. Fourth Edition. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2005.

38¤ — MORRISON PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. MORRISON, TONI. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

39¤ — JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. BREYER, STEPHEN. Active Liberty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

40¤ — AL GORE PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. GORE, AL. The Assault on Reason. New York: The Penguin Press, 2007.

41¤ — PRESENTATION TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT. WOUK, HERMAN. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. New York: Doubleday, 1955.

42¤ — AMERICAN INNS OF COURT. Hand-made album inscribed to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by members of the American Inns of Court,

43¤ — INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. SCALIA, ANTONIN, with BRYAN A. GARNER. Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. Thompson/West, 2008.

44¤ — JUSTICE SCALIA PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. SCALIA, ANTONIN, with BRYAN A. GARNER. Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. St. Paul, MN: Thomson-West, 2008.

45¤ — JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA AND BRYAN GARNER. 2 volumes inscribed Scalia's co-author Bryan Garner to Justice Ginsburg:

46¤ — JANE GOODALL PRESENTATION TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. GOODALL, JANE. Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.

47¤ — BREYER PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG. BREYER, STEPHEN. Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

48¤ — ALBIE SACHS PRESENTATION COPIES TO JUSTICE GINSBURG. SACHS, ALBIE. 6 volumes by South African activist and jurist Albie Sachs:

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RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TEXTBOOK FOR HER CIVIL PROCEDURE CLASS AT HARVARD.
SCOTT, AUSTIN WAKEMAN.
Fundamentals of Procedure in Actions at Law. New York: Baker Voorhis & Co., 1922.

2^¤ —
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TEXTBOOK FOR HER PROPERTY CLASS AT HARVARD.
MOYNIHAN, CORNELIUS J.
A Preliminary Survey of the Law of Real Property. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, 1940.

3^¤ —
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S ANNOTATED COPY OF THE 1957-58 HARVARD LAW REVIEW.
Harvard Law Review, Volume 71. Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Law Review Association, 1957, 1958.

4^¤ —
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TEXTBOOK FOR COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL CLASS ON JURISPRUDENCE.
PATTERSON, EDWIN W.
Jurisprudence: Men and Ideas of the Law. Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, 1953.

5^¤ —
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF HER FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK.
GINSBURG, RUTH BADER, and ANDERS BRUZELIUS.
Civil Procedure in Sweden. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965.

6^¤ —
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF JUSTICE HUGO BLACK'S TREATISE ON DEMOCRACY.
BLACK, HUGO LAFAYETTE.
A Constitutional Faith. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

7^¤ —
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF THE 1969 RUTGERS LAW SCHOOL YEARBOOK.
TRENNER, KATHERYN, editor.
Legacy 1969. Paterson, NJ: Progress Associates, 1969.

8^¤ —
RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S COPY OF SEXUAL POLITICS.
MILLETT, KATE.
Sexual Politics. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970.

9^¤ —
"...INFORMING AND INSPIRING WOMEN ACROSS GENERATIONS": OUR BODIES, OURSELVES INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
Our Bodies, Ourselves. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

12^¤ —
LEGAL TEXTS USED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
6 volumes of legal publications:

13^¤ —
JUDGE RUTH BADER GINSBURG IN THE PRESS.
2 items:

14^¤ —
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
"They Often Are Half Obscure: The Rights of the Individual and the Legacy of Olive Wendell Holmes." Offprint from San Diego Law Review, Vol 29:3 (1992).

15^¤ —
MACKINNON PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
MACKINNON, CATHARINE A.
Only Words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

16^¤ —
HONORARY DEGREE AWARDED TO GINSBURG BY SMITH COLLEGE.
Honorary Doctorate "Legum Doctoris" presented to Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Smith College,

17^¤ —
P.S. 238 IN BROOKLYN.
A commemorative album of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's visit to her childhood school in Brooklyn.

18^¤ —
LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
"Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought." Offprint from Fordham Law Review, Vol 64 (1995): 2.

19^¤ —
JUSTICE GINSBURG ON WOMEN IN THE JUDICIARY.
GINSBURG, RUTH BADER and LAURA W. BRILL.
"Women in the Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers and the Exhilarating Change President Carter Wrought," reprinted from Fordham Law Review, Volume LXIV, Number 2, November 1995.

20^¤ —
FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY AND RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
OLSEN, FRANCES E., editor.
Feminist Legal Theory. Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth Publishing, 1995.

21^¤ —
ANITA HILL ON THE CLARENCE THOMAS HEARINGS, INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
HILL, ANITA FAY, and EMMA COLEMAN JORDAN, editors.
Race, Gender and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

22^¤ —
FOUNDERS DAY TRIBUTE SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
"The Washington College of Law Founders Day Tribute." Appearing as American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. 5, no. 1 (1996): 1-7.

23^¤ —
UNITED STATES V. VIRGINIA (1996): THE VMI CASE.
2 titles on the landmark Virginia Military Institute case, both inscribed by the author to Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

24^¤ —
CASS SUNSTEIN LAW REVIEW OFFPRINTS INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
SUNSTEIN, CASS.
A group of 9 legal offprints and monographs, all inscribed to Ginsburg:

25^¤ —
LAURENCE TRIBE HARVARD LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
TRIBE, LAURENCE H.
"Taking Text and Structure Seriously: Reflections on Free-form Method in Constitutional Interpretation." Offprint from Harvard Law Review, Vol 108:6 (1995).

26^¤ —
THE OPINIONS OF JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
7 volumes of bound published opinions of Ginsburg as Justice of the Supreme Court,

27^¤ —
ERICA JONG PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
JONG, ERICA.
What Do Women Want? Bread Roses Sex Power. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.

28^¤ —
PRESENTATION COPY FROM ANNIE LEIBOVITZ TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
LEIBOVITZ, ANNIE, and SUSAN SONTAG.
Women. New York: Random House, 1999.

29^¤ —
SIDNEY POITIER INSCRIBES HIS MEMOIR TO JUSTICE GINSBURG.
POITIER, SYDNEY.
The Measure of a Man. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

30^¤ —
BUSH V. GORE.
3 books on the 2000 election inscribed by their author to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

31^¤ —
CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE WAR ON TERROR.
4 titles on the legal issues raised by the war on terrorism:

32^¤ —
JUSTICE O'CONNOR PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY; and ALAN DAY.
Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. New York: Random House, 2001.

33^¤ —
HONORARY DEGREE AWARDED TO GINSBURG BY BROWN UNIVERSITY.
An Honorary Doctorate, Feminam Praeclarissimam Gradu Legum Doctoris, presented to Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Brown University,

34^¤ —
PRESENTATION COPY FROM SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR TO JUSTICE GINSBURG.
O'CONNOR, SANDRA DAY, foreword.
International Law: A Handbook for Judges. Washington, D.C.: American Society of International Law, 2003.

35^¤ —
BIOGRAPHY OF CLARENCE THOMAS, INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
FOSKETT, KEN.
Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.

36^¤ —
JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS.
2 titles by/about Clarence Thomas, one inscribed to Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

37^¤ —
ERWIN CHEMERINSKY PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
CHEMERINSKY, ERWIN.
Federal Jurisdiction. Fourth Edition. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2005.

38^¤ —
MORRISON PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
MORRISON, TONI.
Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

39^¤ —
JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
BREYER, STEPHEN.
Active Liberty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

40^¤ —
AL GORE PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
GORE, AL.
The Assault on Reason. New York: The Penguin Press, 2007.

41^¤ —
PRESENTATION TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACHIEVEMENT.
WOUK, HERMAN.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. New York: Doubleday, 1955.

42^¤ —
AMERICAN INNS OF COURT.
Hand-made album inscribed to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by members of the American Inns of Court,

43^¤ —
INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
SCALIA, ANTONIN, with BRYAN A. GARNER.
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. Thompson/West, 2008.

44^¤ —
JUSTICE SCALIA PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
SCALIA, ANTONIN, with BRYAN A. GARNER.
Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. St. Paul, MN: Thomson-West, 2008.

45^¤ —
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA AND BRYAN GARNER.
2 volumes inscribed Scalia's co-author Bryan Garner to Justice Ginsburg:

46^¤ —
JANE GOODALL PRESENTATION TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
GOODALL, JANE.
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.

47^¤ —
BREYER PRESENTATION COPY TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
BREYER, STEPHEN.
Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

48^¤ —
ALBIE SACHS PRESENTATION COPIES TO JUSTICE GINSBURG.
SACHS, ALBIE.
6 volumes by South African activist and jurist Albie Sachs: