Description
Signed limited edition of The Story of My Life by Clarence Darrow, in the publisher’s original display box.
Octavo, xiv, [2], 465pp. Gray boards over beige cloth, title in gilt on maroon leather spine label. First edition with Scribner’s “A” on copyright page. Complete with tissue cover frontispiece and 18 illustrated plates. Includes the publisher’s original display box and glassine dust jacket, both exceptionally rare. Some soiling and splitting to edges of box, dust jacket fine. This is the signed limited edition of The Story of My Life, being number 294 of 294 copies signed by the author. (Hunsberger, Clarence Darrow: A Bibliography 271)
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was an American lawyer and high profile member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He entered the national stage during the Scopes “Monkey” trial and the Leopold and Loeb murder trial.
