Clarence Darrow Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles
CLARENCE DARROW
Born: April 18, 1857 in Kinsman, Ohio
Died: March 13, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: March 13, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois
Darrow (1857-1938), who specialized in corporate law, shot to fame in 1894, when he defended American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, President of the American Railroad Union, arrested on a federal contempt of court charge arising from a strike at the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company. Although Darrow lost the case, he won a national reputation as a champion of radical causes. A brilliant orator and a master of reforming the law, framing pleas and eliciting evidence, he became one of America's most renowned defense lawyers, and he used his position to campaign against capital punishment. In his sixties, Darrow successfully defended Leopold and Loeb (1924) in getting life imprisonment instead of death for kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old boy. In 1925, he defended John T. Scopes, accused of violating a Tennessee law by teaching evolution, in the "Scopes Monkey Trial". Darrow's autobiography The Story of My Life was published in 1932.
1926/II-Camille (Performer), 1998-In-Search-of-History:-Leopold-&-Loeb:-Born-Killers (Other), 1956-I-Never-Forget-a-Face (Other), 1950-The-Golden-Twenties (Other), 1913-From-Dusk-to-Dawn (Performer), 1931-The-Mystery-of-Life (in person), 2011-Behind-Mansion-Walls (Other), 2000-In-Search-of-History:-The-Monkey-Trial (Other), 1999-The-Century:-America's-Time (Other), 2005-The-American-Experience (Other)
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CLARENCE DARROW Clarence Darrow signs a card in black ink. Signature: "Clarence Darrow", 4x2½ card. Attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), who specialized in corporate law, shot to fame in 1894, when he defended American Socialist leader Eugene V.Sale Price $680.00
$800.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Clarence Darrow signs a card in black ink. Signature: "Clarence Darrow", 3½x2½ card. Attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), who specialized in corporate law, shot to fame in 1894, when he defended American Socialist leader Eugene V.Sale Price $680.00
$800.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Lawyer Clarence Darrow wrote about his socialist views - "I am of course a radical as I have always been" - and about his autobiography in this 1933 letter, written on his personalized letterhead. Autograph letter signed "Clarence Darrow.". Black ink notations in bottom left corner in unknown hand.Sale Price $4,037.50
$4,750.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Replying on verso to a request to frame pages from his autobiography, Darrow gives his consent. Autograph Letter signed: "Clarence Darrow", 1 page, 6x9½. No place, no date, but written on verso of a letter from Dr. Irving Thomas dated May 18, 1933.Sale Price $1,600.00
$2,000.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Clarence Darrow sends an autograph letter that he is sorry to hear that the recipient bought the book he intended to send. Autograph Letter Signed: "Clarence Darrow", 1p, 8x10. Chicago, [1923] September 25. To Mrs. Mary Bell Sloan, Bloomington, Ill.Sale Price $1,912.50
$2,250.00
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CLARENCE DARROW 9x11 black and white publicity photograph of Clarence Darrow wearing a suit and tie. Photograph inscribed and signed: "Clarence Darrow/Warmest wishes to/Gifford Ernest/Chicago Feb'y 2, 1936". B/w, 9x11 overall, image 7½x9¼ (one surface).Sale Price $2,337.50
$2,750.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Small sepia publicity photograph of Clarence Darrow looking past his shoulder. Photograph inscribed and signed: "Clarence Darrow/to his friend/Mrs. Helen Normanton/Chicago March 24, 1924". Sepia, 4½x6½. Photo by Krauch, Los Angeles.Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
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CLARENCE DARROW 9x12¼ paper stock image of the famed lawyer, inscribed in fountain pen Photograph inscribed and signed: "Clarence Darrow/to Columbia Tow'p High School/May 1936". B/w, 9x12¼.Sale Price $2,337.50
$2,750.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Darrow signs a check for $1880.92 to a detective agency! Check signed: "C S Darrow" 6¾x3 check affixed to 7¼x3½ board. Chicago, Illinois, December 22, 1921.Sale Price $1,530.00
$1,800.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Clarence Darrow signs a limited edition first edition of his first book A Persian Pearl: and Other Essays numbered 479 out of 980 copies. Book signed: "Clarence S. Darrow" on limited edition page, 175p, 6x9, fabric cover. His first book, A Persian Pearl: and Other Essays by Clarence S. Darrow, Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, New York: 1899.Sale Price $1,190.00
$1,400.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Clarence Darrow signs a second edition of his book Farmington. Book signed: "To remember a pleasant/day/Clarence Darrow" on first blank flyleaf of Farmington by Clarence S. Darrow, 277p, hardcover, 5x7½. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.": 1904. Second Edition.Sale Price $1,190.00
$1,400.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Clarence Darrow signs the limited edition page of his first edition of his first book A Persian Pearl: and Other Essays numbered 179 out of 980 copies. Book Page inscribed and signed: "Miss Jane Adams/With the Compliments of/C.S. Darrow" on the limited edition page, 4p, 5½x8½.Sale Price $1,360.00
$1,600.00
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CLARENCE DARROW Black and white publicity photograph of Clarence Darrow wearing a suit and tie inscribed to Robert R. Gros. Book Photograph signed and inscribed: "Clarence Darrow/To Robert R. Gros/With kind regard/Dec. 25th 1932". B/w, 9¾x11½ overall, image 7½x9½ (one surface).Sale Price $2,975.00
$3,500.00
