[Rarebooks] FS: Richard Hugo's first book Inscribed to the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court

[Charles Agvent]

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.. $2,500.00	


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