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1963568899Boston: Beacon Press 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny crease and very light toning. Advance Review Copy with publisher letter laid in. An uncommon title. Beacon Press hardcover
1963466362Boston: Beacon Press 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Second edition. Near fine with stamp on front pastedown and light edgewear in very good moderately rubbed dust jacket with wear at the corner and small hole on rear panel. An uncommon title. Beacon Press hardcover
1963501461Boston: Beacon Press 1963. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second edition. Fine in near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket with small ink price on the front pastedown. An uncommon title. Beacon Press hardcover
19597475Philadelphia: Christian Education Press 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4 1/4 X 6 1/4 Inches. 34 PP. Original cloth with $1.00 price intact on jacket. Contains "What Is Man" and "The Dimensions of a Complete Life" sermons preached at the first National Conference on Christian Education of the United Church of Christ at Purdue University. After much demand King allowed Purdue and the Christian Education Press to print this volume. Cloth a bit sunned at edges and has a slight slit at top rear of spine. DJ a bit scuffed and one small closed tear to front panel. A very attractive copy overall. Christian Education Press hardcover
197212102Fort Collins CO: The Old Army Press 1972. 1972. Very good. - Octavo navy blue cloth titled in gilt. The covers are very lightly spotted & lightly rubbed with a score mark to the front cover. v & 99 pages with black & white illustrations by Byron Wolfe. A previous owner's address label blind stamp & signature are on the front endpaper. Else the contents are very good. <p>First edition.<p>The classic work on books about Custer. Fort Collins, CO: The Old Army Press, 1972. hardcover
1958016274Omaha: National Baptist Convention. Very Good. 1958. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps 214pp very good with some wear. Martin Luther King Jr.'s picture appears in the rear as Vice President but he would be elected President that year.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pp . National Baptist Convention paperback
1968618003New York: The Crisis Publishing Co. Inc 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Periodical. Octavo. 140 2 pp. Illustrated. Address label of Warren Morgan of Baltimore see below on the lower wrap causing a bit of light rippling. Light wear and a bit of light marginal foxing near fine. Issue of the important NAACP magazine founded by W.E.B. Du Bois published the month of Dr. King's assassination. Given the fact that they had almost no time to prepare this issue prints a memorial cover portrait an editorial titled "The Martyrdom of Martin Luther King Jr." and "NAACP mourns loss of Dr. King" in the "Battlefront section" alongside several articles that must have already been slated for publication. The intrepid B.T. Enterprises of Cleveland Ohio has also taken out a half-page ad selling memorial medals honoring Dr. King. <br /> <br /> This issue was mailed to Warren Morgan of Baltimore a civil rights activist who was also sadly the victim of racial violence: according to a March 1964 article in The New York Times Morgan at that time the head of Students Action for Equality at Maryland State College and six other African-American students were invited by the pastor to Easter Service at a White Methodist church and three of them were attacked after the service by a dozen young White men. Warren was hospitalized with a fractured cheekbone. Warren would go on to receive his doctorate at Oklahoma State University and work as the Vice President of Student Affairs at Florida A&M University and Dean of Student Affairs at Benedict College among others. An important copy of an important magazine with a powerful association. The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc unknown
1968590618Washington D. C.: I. F. Stone 1968. Unbound. Very Good. Vol. XVI No. 8. One folio sheet folded to make four pages. Measuring 8½" x 11" closed. Edges with a bit of light foxing and tanning bottom corner bumped with a tiny split very good or better. Pages one and four are dedicated to a scathing indictment of Washington hypocrisy and American racism as well as the subsequent violence in light of the assassination of Dr. King; the article is dated April 9 in type. Stone also prints a portion of what he calls Dr. King's last letter asking support for his march on Washington under the heading "Bitter Last Words It Is Dangerous To Forget." Pages two and three are mostly dedicated to articles on the Vietnam War. I. F. Stone unknown
1966579108International Graphic Arts Society 1966. Unbound. Very Good. Woodblock print. Image measures approximately 15" x 19" on 20" x 24¾" paper. Modest general wear and soil some light staining most pronounced in the bottom right corner beneath Shahn's signature affecting the right edge of the print but only noticeable on the blank verso an about very good copy. Signed by Shahn along with his chop mark and also Signed by printer Stefan Martin. Copy 130 of 300 printed. The striking woodblock print is based on Shahn's ink portrait of King that appeared on the cover of Time on March 19 1965 12 days after what is now known as Bloody Sunday. N.B. also published in an edition with text by King beneath the portrait. [International Graphic Arts Society unknown
1968353041Atlanta 1968. 16pp. Folio. Folds tear in the first page. 16pp. Folio. The entire issue is dedicated to King and includes a printing of his I Have a Dream speech on p. 10. The final page comprises a reproduction of each page of the April 9 funeral program. unknown
1969579060No place: no publisher 1969. Unbound. Very Good. Photographically illustrated broadside. Measuring 11" x 16¾". Old folds shallow chips in upper left corner faint stains about very good. The top photograph depicts two younger Black men standing in front of a memorial plaque for King; the lower photograph depicts a number of well-dressed African-Americans in prayer outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis where King was martyred. No publication information. Used for display and showing signs of use. Uncommon poster. no publisher unknown
1976464293Dayton Ohio: Courtesy Club Greater Allen AME Church 1976. Unbound. Near Fine. Broadside. Approximately 14" x 22½". Photographically illustrated on thin card stock. Faint offsetting else near fine. Central image of Dr. King Sr. Poster for an event held at the Dayton Convention Center. Celebration of MLK Jr. held eight years after his death and seven years before his birthday became a national holiday. OCLC locates no copies. Courtesy Club, Greater Allen AME Church unknown
19636151641963. Unbound. Near Fine. Group of 20 gelatin silver photographs. Each measuring 4½" x 3¼". The back of each photo has light vertical glue stains from once being stored in a photo album while the fronts have old yellowed tape remnants in the margins which fortunately have not affected the central images very good. A collection of vernacular photographs of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom taken by an attendee. Captured are images of marchers in the streets at various locations around the mall and on the lawn by the Washington Monument but with most taken from quite near the steps of the Lincoln Monument where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. A photo of a sign for "Atlantic City NJ" and another taken near a scaffolding clearly places the photographer at the rear of the right hedge row looking up toward the speakers platform.<br /> <br /> Among the most notable images are that of Jackie Robinson making his way through the crowd with help of ushers; a close-up photograph of actress Lena Horne sporting a her NAACP side cap; two images of Josephine Baker dressed in her French Resistance uniform and medals standing up in the crowd for photo; and a group of students in front of a "Prince Edward" banner representing Robert Russa Moton High School one of the five litigants combined into the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.<br /> <br /> A wonderful collection of vernacular images from one of the defining moment of 20th Century American history. unknown
1962601825New York: CORE Congress of Racial Equity 1962. Softcover. Very Good. Paperback. Introduction by Martin Luther King Jr. Octavo. 32pp. Very good in toned stapled glossy wrappers with dampstain affecting the cover and a few interior pages. A pamphlet describing the method and result of various nonviolent protests carried out by members of CORE from the restaurant and theatre demonstrations of the late-1940 up to the Freedom Rides during the summer of 1961. Surprisingly uncommon in the trade. CORE (Congress of Racial Equity) unknown
196831757New York: Leo Feist 1968. 4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Pictorial self wrappers with photo of King on upper cover. Very good. 4 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Rare: OCLC locates only the Yale and the British Library copies. This example bears a gift inscription to Clarence L. Holte 1909-1993 the prominent African-American bibliophile and publisher of "The Basic Afro-American Reprint Library Leo Feist unknown
1968547000Wheaton Illinois: Church League of America 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 55pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Top corners a little bumped offsetting on the edges of the rear wrap else near fine. "Study" written by white supremacists in reaction to the "mass hysteria and idolatry" that greeted King's murder. Church League of America unknown
1972417798New York: Vantage Press 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 96pp. Cheap paper age-toned foxing on endpapers near fine in modestly foxed very good or better dust jacket. Vanity press-published study by an African-American Pastor of the United Methodist Church in Willingboro New Jersey. Lyght was born in Maryland and attended high school in Delaware. Vantage Press hardcover
198415461New York: New Market Press 1984. Later printing. hardcover. A near fine copy in a very good plus price-clipped dust jacket. This copy has a bookplate pasted to the front endpaper signed by Coretta Scott King. A father's day gift inscription is above the bookplate and below written in the same hand "Bought when Coretta S King spoke in Seattle March 2001." From King's speeches and writings here are more than 120 quotations on the community of man racism civil rights justice and freedom faith and religion nonviolence and peace. Illustrated from photographs. Includes chronology and sources. New Market Press unknown
191422309New York: Privately printed 1914. 1914. Fine. - Octavo gray boards titled in gilt on the front board with a gilt-lettered leather label on the spine. The binding is very slightly bumped. xvii & 136 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard. Near fine. <p>Limited edition of 50 copies printed by the De Vinne Press on Van Gelder paper. New York: Privately printed, 1914. hardcover
19497293New York: Quarter Books 1949. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 5 1/2 X 7 1/2 Inches. 120 PP. Attractive GGA cover intact and clean. Light rubbing to edges. Quarter Books unknown
19646641Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1964. First Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. 5 7/8 X 9 1/8 Inches. 387 PP. THE FIRST SURGEON GENERAL REPORT ON THE DANGERS OF SMOKING AND THE LINK BETWEEN CIGARETTES AND CANCER!<br /> <br /> The 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health reviewed researched and subsequently established the link between smoking and lung cancer and heart disease. The importance of this document on public health in America in almost beyond compare in the 20th Century. In his introduction Surgeon General Terry addresses the "difficult" task of writing this report and his praise for those working on it for "professional skill and dedication of the highest order." While the dangers of smoking had begun to seep into mainstream articles and conversation prior to 1964 this report is the first Government "attack" on tobacco. As such this report led to the avalanche of measures taken over the last fifty years to represent the dangers of smoking as openly and honestly as we can to those who choose to smoke and/or smoke around others. <br /> <br /> Original perfect bound wraps. Light wear and some sunning to spine. Wear to edges. Overall a nice copy from a non-smoking environment. Government Printing Office unknown
19674069Louisville Ky: March 26 1967. Very good. 126pp. contemporary copy printed on rectos only stapled. Minor toning and small paperclip stain to top edge of title leaf last leaf loose. Otherwise clean. A nice contemporary copy of the annual report for the Southern Program of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC prepared by Hosea L. Williams the director of the Southern Program and presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC's Board of Directors at the organization's annual meeting held in Louisville Kentucky March 29-30 1967. The work begins with a summary of the activities of the SCLC over the past year including the work of 104 people in 180 counties in ten southern states. Williams reports that "For the past twelve months the Southern Program has been involved in voter registration political education withholding patronage campaigns school integration organizing community organizations in counties where needed Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns developing the Negro economic potential organizing farmer's cooperatives labor strikes community newspapers investment corporations tutoring classes especially for Negroes with deficiencies attending previously all-white schools organizing Negro candidates organizing and registering the farmers to fully participate in the ASCS Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service non-violent workshops business and professional clubs direct action campaigns non-violent street protests credit unions county-wide mass meetings on a regular basis youth programs mobilizing existing organizations adult education school boycotts and open housing."<br /> <br /> The next dozen pages are taken up with charts that detail which of the above activities were carried on in each of the 180 counties in the ten states from Alabama to Kentucky Virginia to Texas and more. This is followed by a "Recapitulation of SCLC's Southern Program by State and finally an "overall recap of the Southern Program" presented as a total of each activity quoted above. The present work came from a collection of SCLC material out of Atlanta once belonging to Hosea L. Williams.<br /> <br /> A valuable snapshot of the types of activities and the breadth of work being performed by the SCLC's Southern Program in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. March 26 unknown
196360699New York: Jewish Currents 1963. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 48pp; illus. Light wear and handling tiny stain to lower edge of front wrapper; Near Fine. Contents include UN correspondent David Matis's lengthy article "Birmingham Diary: A Reporter's Observations" which contained on-the-ground coverage of the SCLC's Birmingham Campaign. Couched within the article is a full-page excerpt of "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" Martin Luther King's eloquent assertion of the principles of non-violent resistance which would become one of the key documents of the American civil rights struggle and one of the most significant 20th century works written by a political prisoner. The text appears on p.12 under the title "The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. To His Fellow Ministers." This appearance is not mentioned in Pyatt's MLK bibliography but chronologically ranks among its earliest periodical apperances. Jewish Currents unknown
19683397San Francisco 1968. Very good. Broadsheet on blue paper 13.5 x 8.5 inches. Slight discoloration along top and bottom edges minor edge wear a few soft creases old horizontal folds. An exceedingly rare broadsheet advertising a multi-faceted public march and rally against the Vietnam War and "racism poverty and repression" which took place in San Francisco California about three weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The organizers of the event the April 27 Mobilization Committee framed the day's activities around Dr. King's opposition to the Vietnam War; the broadside calls for the protesters to "pay tribute to the memory" of Dr. King his portrait is printed at the top of the front side of the broadsheet and the entirety of the verso prints excerpts of an April 4 1967 speech by Dr. King railing against the Vietnam War. Particularly interesting is the eclectic list of speakers who participated in the day's events on April 27 1968 which included Muhammad Ali Vanessa Redgrave Jeanette Rankin Bobby Seale Arnold True and Sidney Roger. Ali was in the midst of his appeal after his conviction for draft evasion the previous year and was a natural candidate to speak against the injustices of the Vietnam War. Bobby Seale co-founder of the Black Panthers was four months away from participating in protests at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention after which he was arrested and tried as part of the sham Chicago Eight fiasco.<br /> <br /> The diversity of the speakers echoes the quantity of different issues represented by the current broadsheet: Civil Rights the Vietnam War the recent assassination of Dr. King Muhammad Ali's legal fight against the war Bobby Seale's controversial role with the Bay Area Black Panthers women's rights and the role of the American military. We could locate no other copies of this broadsheet in auction history or OCLC. unknown
195886906New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1958 1960. Early Printing with publisher's C-K code March 1960 on copyright page. Octavo 21cm; black and dark blue cloth-covered boards with titling and publisher's logo stamped in silver on spine and lower front cover; 89-2302pp; illus. Crown gently nudged some very subtle offsetting to pastedowns else a fresh very Near Fine copy. <br /> <br /> An attractive copy of King's first book dealing chiefly with the Montgomery Bus Strike. "Here is the full account of "The Montgomery Story" that began as a bus strike and ended in a Supreme Court decision and the first successful large-scale application of non-violent resistance to an American situation" from front flap. A monumental book; its popularity was a major contributor to King's rapid emergence as a national civil rights leader. BLOCKSON 4119. 86906. Harper & Brothers, Publishers unknown
