Farmington, Inscribed to John Cowper Powys.
Inscribed to Notable Philosopher and Critic John Cowper Powys Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. Farmington. New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919. x, 220, [2] pp. Includes two-page advertisement for this book. Original cloth, gilt titles to front board and spine. Light fading, some staining to front board, spine ends and corners lightly bumped and worn, pencil annotation to front pastedown, internally clean. Inscription "To my brilliant friend/ John Cowper Powys/ With the regards of /Clarence Darrow/ New York City/ Feby 29 1920" in ink to front free endpaper. $1,500. * Third edition. Farmington is a fictionalized account of the author's youth in Ohio. Though it went through seven editions, it was never a critical or commercial success. This pained Darrow, who considered it his finest book. Powys [1872-1963] was an English philosopher, novelist, poet and critic who lectured in the United States from 1905 to the early 1930s. Darrow, an admirer of his work, was a correspondent of both Powys and his brother Llewelyn. He considered Powys "a genius," albeit with a "hopeless streak of mysticism about him" (Darrow, Tietjen, ed.). Darrow, Tietjen, Ed. In the Clutches of the Law: Clarence Darrow's Letters 430. Hunsberger, Clarence Darrow: A Bibliography 121.
Price: $1,500.00
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