Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Biography. John Frush Knox's Copy

1932. With a Laid-in Photo of John Knox & O.W. Holmes Jr. With a Laid-in Photo of John Knox & O.W. Holmes Jr. With a Laid-in Photo of John Knox and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Bent, Silas [1882-1945]. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., [1932]. xi, 386 pp. Plates. Hardcover cloth, light shelfwear, faint dampstaining to bottom edge of boards, in lightly edgeworn and moderately soiled dust jacket. Faint dampstaining to bottom edge of first 15 pp., internally clean. Owner inscription of John Knox dated November 15, 1934 and note in the same hand (recording Holmes's death, dated March 6, 1935) to front pastedown, photo of Holmes and Knox laid in (formerly tipped onto front free endpaper, small piece of tape adhered to photo), annotation (a quotation from "The Soldier's Faith" by Holmes) to rear pastedown, unrelated note card laid in. $500. * This was the first biography of Holmes. John Frush Knox [1907-1997], a correspondent of Holmes, clerked for Supreme Court associate justice James McReynolds from 1936-1937. He was an avid diarist and produced a 978-page manuscript documenting his time with Reynolds, one of the earliest memoirs of a Supreme Court clerk. The work was published posthumously as The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington (2002).