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Author:
Darrow, Clarence
Title:
Crime and Criminals, An Address Delivered to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail. Hunsberger 92 [Darrow observes in his preface to this reissue that "I have caused these remarks to be printed on rather good paper and in a somewhat expensive form"]
Publisher:
Charles H. Kerr & Company, Chicago, 1913.
Description:
An uncommon reissue of one of Darrow's early and most electrifying speeches, delivered in 1902, "shock[ing] most citizens, but delight[ing] most inmates, a few of whom thought he was too radical", Darrow concluding "[t]here should be no jails."
Condition:
Original printed illustrated stapled wraps, a bit worn, the rear wrap just chipped and with some staining, and the Book Omnorium San Francisco stamp
Book No.:
W-80468
Price:
$ 150.00
Category:
criminal law, legal reform
Author:
Darrow, Clarence, and Wallace Rice (comps.)
Title:
Infidels and Heretics, An Agnostic's Anthology. Not in Hunsberger
Publisher:
Gordon Press, New York, 1975.
Description:
Some 200 selections from among the greatest minds of Western thought, including Darwin, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson, Whitehead, William Blake, Samuel Butler, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell, as well as several by Darrow himself
Condition:
Original red pebbled cloth, gilt, a very good copy; the facsimile reprint of the original 1929 edition; with the frontispiece of Clarence Darrow
Book No.:
W-80470
Price:
$ 75.00
Category:
Religion
Author:
Darrow, Clarence
Title:
The Story of My Life [A pirated edition, seemingly unrecorded, of Darrow's autobiography, its dustjacket and title page based on the Grosset Universal Library paperback edition, with other changes designed to disguisee its legal origin; no copy in OCLC]
Publisher:
No publisher Stated, ?Taiwan or Hong Kong, No date.
Description:
Darrow's principal autobiographical work, written in his 70's, full of reflection, with much on his youth, on the Scopes trial, the Leopold and Loeb case, the McNamara brothers case, the bribery charges against him, and his other great involvements
Condition:
Original cloth, a clean copy in a worn, chipped dustjacket with the Chinese style ownership stamp of Dallas lawyer C. Wayne Huffman on the front blank
Book No.:
W-80485
Price:
$ 750.00
Category:
biography

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