The annotated copy of the 1957-58 Harvard Law Review sold for $100,312.50 in an auction by Bonhams that included over 1,000 books and other items from the late Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg's personal library.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg presented the inaugural woman of the court.
A copy of Ginsburg's collected writings, My Own Words, sold for $81,562.50 at the auction, which ended Thursday.
The entire collection was expected to sell for between $300,000 and $500,000, but the bidding exceeded their expectations.
The 166 lots of the auction were mostly nonfiction works such as law reference books, judicial biographies and texts on feminism.
Ginsburg donated her collection of paperbacks to prison libraries after her death.
Ginsburg had an annotated copy of the Harvard Law Review.
Ginsburg was general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project, where she argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court. Ginsburg took a targeted approach to reducing gender discrimination, avoiding sweeping judgments under the theory that social change should come from legislative rather than judicial bodies. Ginsburg was described as the essence of grace, civility and dignity by Justice Clarence Thomas.
A person's library can give us a sense of who they are and how they came to be.
Not every item in Ginsburg's library sold out. Bryant Johnson, Ginsburg's personal trainer, wrote a copy of TheRBG Workout that was worth just $300-$500 before being withdrawn.
Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement on the same day that the auction ended.
Ginsburg book nets $100,000 in blockbuster auction of late Supreme Court justice's library
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