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

[Charles Agvent]

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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