[Rarebooks] FS: Clarence Darrow Inscribed to John Cowper Powys

[Charles Agvent]

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              DARROW,  Clarence [POWYS, John Cowper]. FARMINGTON.  New
          York: B.  W.  Huebsch  1919.  Third  Edition.  INSCRIBED  and
          SIGNED  by  the  author  on the front free  endpaper  "To  my
          brilliant    friend/John  Cowper   Powys/With   the   regards
          of/Clarence  Darrow/New  York  City/Feby   24  1920."  Darrow
          likely  met  Powys  through   Charles  Erskine  Wood.  Darrow
          introduced  suffragette  Sara Bard Field to Wood, the  Indian
          fighter, attorney, poet, and anarchist, and despite a thirty-
          year difference  in age, the two married. Powys met Sara  and
          Erskine  Wood  when he went to California in 1921 and  became
          Colonel  Wood's  protege.  Powys, a descendent of  the  poets
          Donne and  Cowper,  wrote  many  books of  both  fiction  and
          nonfiction.  George  Steiner  has described him as  the  only
          English  novelist  to rival Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.  Lacking
          the dustwrapper.  Spine  dull; a number of small white  paint
          splashes  to  the  front cover. Despite the  soiling  to  the
          cover, a Very Good copy.                             $2000.00

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