A Persian pearl : and other essays / by Clarence S. Darrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938, author.

Contributor:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969, former owner.

Lockley, Fred, 1871-1958, bookseller.

Gearin, John M. (John McDermeid), 1851-1930, former owner.

Cartin, W. W., inscriber.

Roycroft Shop, publisher.

Brown University. Library, former owner.

Walt Whitman Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Omar Khayyam. Rubā\īyāt.

Omar Khayyam.

Penn Provenance:

Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)

Brown University. Library (bookplate) (Whitman Collection copy)

Lockley, Fred, 1871-1958 (label) (Whitman Collection copy)

Gearin, John M. (John McDermeid), 1851-1930 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)

Cartin, W. W. (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)

Physical Description:

175 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[East Aurora, New York] : Done into a book at the Roycroft shop which is in East Aurora, Erie County, New York, MDCCCXCIX [1899]

Contents:

A Persian pearl (Omar Khayyam)

The skeleton in the closet

Walt Whitman

Realism in literature and art

Robert Burns.

Notes:

"Of this edition there were printed 980 copies and then distributed. Each book is numbered ..."--Page [3].

Colophon on page 175.

Local Notes:

Whitman Collection copy is number 788 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 980 copies. See page [3].

Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.

Whitman Collection copy has bookplate of Brown University ("HARRIS COLLECTION OF AMERICAN POETRY THIS VOLUME IS THE GIFT OF Samuel Coffin Eastman OF THE CLASS OF 1857") on front pastedown.

Whitman Collection copy has bookseller's label ("FRED LOCKLEY RARE WESTERN BOOKS 1243 East Stark St. PORTLAND, ORE.") on front pastedown.

Whitman Collection copy has dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("John M. Gearin With sincere regard from W.W. Cartin 6/1/99") on front free endpaper.

Other Format:

Online version: Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938. Persian pearl.

OCLC:

5041099