Boston, Little Brown, (1965). Douglas, a Supreme Court Justice from 1939-1975, inventories the country's natural resources and advocates for their preservation via a Wilderness Bill of Rights to be administered by an Office of Conservation. In a 1972 dissenting opinion, Douglas would argue for a federal rule that would allow legal standing for "inanimate objects" such as "valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life." This copy is inscribed by Douglas to Victoria Pearl Fort. Douglas was perhaps the most environmentally conscious and active Supreme Court justice ever: in 1962, he was awarded the National Audubon Society's highest honor, the Audubon Medal; he wrote a glowing review of Rachel Carson's landmark book, Silent Spring, which was included as an offprint with all copies of that book sold by Book of the Month Club; he was active in campaigns to preserve Washington's North Cascades, the Alaskan Arctic, Wyoming's Wind River region, and the Allagash waterways of Maine, among other environmental projects. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip at the upper edge of the rear panel. One of his more uncommon titles -- and a key one, given his legal stature and historical postures on ecological matters -- and scarce signed. [#036848] SOLD