[Rarebooks] FS: Northwest Poets and Supreme Court Justices

[Charles Agvent]

Two of the 150 interesting items included in our HOLIDAY 2008 Catalogue 
now posted on our web site.  Included are beautifully bound classics, 
signed books, fine press titles, poetry, illustrated books, and the 
unusual.

1.  HUGO,  Richard.  A  RUN   OF  JACKS.  Minneapolis:  University  of
Minnesota  (1961).  First  Edition.  Important   first  book  by  this
Washington  state poet, one of Theodore Roethke's first students,  who
died  suddenly of leukemia in 1982 at the age of 59. A beautiful  copy
wonderfully    INSCRIBED   and  SIGNED:   "For  Justice   William   O.
Douglas/with  profound  admiration,/and  hoping that  you  can/catch a
glimpse  of  your/wilderness./Richard F. Hugo." Douglas, a  native  of
Washington  and  the  longest-serving justice in the  history  of  the
Supreme  Court, was a prolific author who had extensive ties with  the
environmental    movement.  Douglas  hiked   the   entire   2,000-mile
Appalachian    Trail   from  Georgia  to   Maine.  In   the   landmark
environmental  law  case,  Sierra  Club v.  Morton,  Douglas  famously
argued  that  inanimate  objects such as rivers or trees  should  have
legal  standing to sue in court. A wilderness adjoining Mount  Rainier
National  Park is named after him. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. A  superb
Association Copy.                                             $2500.00

2.  ROETHKE,  Theodore. THE WAKING. POEMS: 1933 - 1953.  Garden  City:
Doubleday  & Co. 1953. First Edition. Roethke's Pulitzer Prize-winning
collection  of  his best poems. This copy is INSCRIBED and  SIGNED  on
the title page to Supreme Court Associate Justice Abe Fortas: "To Abe,
/with  more  than/the  usual good/wishes to a  stranger/Ted  Roethke."
Fortas  assisted Lyndon Johnson in winning his Senate seat and  became
a  lifelong  friend  to Johnson who appointed Fortas  to  the  Supreme
Court   in  1965.  When  Chief   Justice  Earl  Warren  announced  his
retirement  in  June 1968, Johnson nominated Associate Justice  Fortas
to  replace Warren. Fortas was the first Chief Justice nominee ever to
appear  before the Senate, and he faced hostile questioning about  his
relationship  with  Lyndon  Johnson ultimately leading Fortas  to  ask
Johnson  to withdraw his nomination. Fortas resigned from the court in
1969  after a financial scandal. With a blindstamp on the second front
blank  indicating  the  book is from the library of Abe  Fortas  and a
blank  check  from Seattle's University National Bank laid in. On  the
verso  of the check in an unknown hand is written: "Dear Abe/Read  the
book/backwards."  In  the same small hand next to the printed date  on
the  title page is written "April 27, 1954." The dustwrapper has  some
rubbing  and  light  edgewear  with the remnant  of  about  half  of a
Pulitzer  Prize Winner sticker on the front panel. Fine in a Very Good
dustwrapper. A superb Association Copy.                       $3500.00


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