A Persian Pearl and Other Essays, A Copy in a Rare Dust Jacket.
A Copy in a Rarely Seen Dust Jacket Darrow, Clarence [1857-1938]. A Persian Pearl and Other Essays. Chicago: C.L. Ricketts (Lakeside Press colophon), 1902. 160, [1] pp. Quarter cloth over patterned paper boards, gilt title to spine, top edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edges, in original dust jacket with title to front panel. Considerable edgewear to dust jacket, which has several cellotape repairs to its verso, chips and tears to sections along its spine, tears along panel folds, negligible light soiling to book's spine in places where jacket has chipped away, binding otherwise pristine, negligible light toning to interior. A very good copy in a rarely seen dust jacket. $1,250. * Second edition. A Persian Pearl was Darrow's first book and the cornerstone of any Darrow collection. It consists of five essays. "A Persian Pearl" is an appreciation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. The other essays discuss Walt Whitman, Robert Burns, realism in literature and art and the importance of facing up to past mistakes without fear or shame. Hunsberger, Clarence Darrow: A Bibliography 44.
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