A PERSIAN PEARL

East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Brownell's bookplate on front pastedown, some offsetting to endpaper; spine expertly restored, boards with some soiling and wear to edges. Very Good. Reverse calf-backed boards, gilt title on cover, spine label lettered in gilt; #646 of 980 copies finely printed in black and red with decorative initials and typographic ornaments. Legendary defense attorney's first book, this copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: “Inscribed to/George H. Brownell/with best wishes/Clarence Darrow/Chicago July 29th 1927.” A collection of five essays on Walt Whitman, Robert Burns, Omar Khayyam, "The Skeleton in the Closet," and "Realism in Literature and Art."