Farmington, Inscribed by Darrow's Granddaughter Blanche Darrow Chase.
Inscribed by Darrow's Granddaughter Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. Farmington. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. vii, [1], 9-255 pp. Cloth, very good with light shelfwear in lightly soiled, unclipped dust jacket with a small chip between front panel and front flap. Internally clean, gift inscription "To Joan Scheiber/ With best wishes/ from/ Blanche Darrow Chase" to front free endpaper. $250. * Later edition with a new preface. First published in 1904), 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 because he thought it was his finest book. This copy is inscribed by his youngest granddaughter, Blanche Darrow Chase [1913-2006]. Hunsberger, Clarence Darrow: A Bibliography 270.
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