Seventeen Sonnets and Collected Poems
Hollywood: Galloping Pony Press, 1957 [copyright 1958]. First edition, one of 125 unnumbered copies "printed and bound by Kathryn Peck in the years 1957 & 1958" [the colophon]. 8vo. 103, [2] pages. Four full-page plates by Washburn (one offset onto text). Original patterned cloth, printed paper title label on front cover; dust jacket (chipped with loss at head of spine affecting letters, inner panels separated along folds, light chipping at corners, a few reinforcements on verso). Internally clean and fresh. Item #410631
Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to John Haynes Holmes, American Unitarian minister, pacifist, and co-founder of the NAACP and the ACLU: "With deep gratitude for the life and leadership of John Haynes Holmes from Katheryn Peck – June 1959" followed by a quotation from American transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian Church Theodore Parker: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
Price: $175.00