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196550258Birmingham AL: Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1965. First Edition. Quarto 27.5cm; printed card wrappers stapled; 40pp. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers oxidation to staples else Near Fine. Detailed summary of the SCLC's 9th annual convention held in Birmingham Alabama from August 9-13 1965. Contents include introductory greetings by SCLS Secretary Rev. Fred Shuttleworth text of the annual report by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a detailed list of resolutions the keynote address by Rev. Andrew Young an addresses by Ambassador S.O. Adebo Mrs. Constance Baker Motley and others. Scarce with no examples for sale in the trade July 2020 and OCLC noting 3 holdings NYPL UC Davis U.Texas at Arlington. Southern Christian Leadership Conference unknown books
1950WRCLIT53274Columbia MO: Press of the Crippled Turtle 1950. Quarto. Cloth backed decorated wrappers. Upper wrapper has some light coffee-spotting toe of spine a bit frayed else a very good copy. First edition. One of only sixty numbered copies set in Caledonia Lydian and Cloister Bold types and printed for private distribution. A collection of twelve short stories by members of the Tabard Inn an organization of faculty and students at Univ. of MO Columbia. The imprint was maintained by Frank Luther Mott who also contributes a story here. Press of the Crippled Turtle hardcover books
195899642New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1958. First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's first book. Octavo original half cloth illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the title page "Best Wishes Martin Luther King Jr." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed. Stride Toward Freedom is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive revelatory and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love and who in the process acquired a new estimate of their own human worth.'' Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
195830031New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1958. First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's first book. Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Martin Luther King Jr. on the front free endpaper. Review copy with the slip laid in near fine in a very good dust jacket with some fading to the spine and light wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First printings are uncommon signed. Stride Toward Freedom is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive revelatory and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love and who in the process acquired a new estimate of their own human worth.'' Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
1958140941010New York: Harper & Brothers 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition stated first printing. Near Fine with light softening at spine ends offsetting to endsheets and light toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine light edge wear and toning to the verso. A lovely copy. Harper & Brothers unknown books
196398984New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1963. Early printing of Dr. King's second book of which Coretta Scott King noted "If there is one book Martin Luther King Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives it is Strength to Love." Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper "Best Wishes Martin Luther King." Also laid in is an original photograph of Dr. King. Contemporary name to the pastedown near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Strength to Love was Martin Luther King's first volume of sermons published the same year in which he penned his Letter from a Birmingham Jail and joined the historic March on Washington and delivered his famous I have a dream speech. The following year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. King notes in the preface: "In these turbulent days of uncertainty the evils of war and of economic and racial injustice threaten the very survival of the human race. Indeed we live in a day of grave crisis. The sermons in this volume have the present crisis as their background; and they have been selected for this volume because in one way or another they deal with the personal and collective problems that the crisis presents." Coretta Scott King said about this book that it "best explains the central element of Martin Luther King Jr.' s philosophy of nonviolence: His belief in a divine loving presence that binds all life. By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping the transcendent moral ethic of love we shall overcome these evils." Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover books
196341050New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1963. First edition of Dr. King's second book of which Coretta Scott King noted "If there is one book Martin Luther King Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives it is Strength to Love." Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Major Ernest D. Muse With Best Wishes Martin Luther King." Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and a few small closed tears. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Dr. King. Strength to Love was Martin Luther King's first volume of sermons published the same year in which he penned his Letter from a Birmingham Jail and joined the historic March on Washington and delivered his famous I have a dream speech. The following year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. King notes in the preface: "In these turbulent days of uncertainty the evils of war and of economic and racial injustice threaten the very survival of the human race. Indeed we live in a day of grave crisis. The sermons in this volume have the present crisis as their background; and they have been selected for this volume because in one way or another they deal with the personal and collective problems that the crisis presents." Coretta Scott King said about this book that it "best explains the central element of Martin Luther King Jr.' s philosophy of nonviolence: His belief in a divine loving presence that binds all life. By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping the transcendent moral ethic of love we shall overcome these evils." Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover books
2281574Harper & Row 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition stated with $3.50 price on jacket. Owner bookplate remnant on front endpaper reverse of jacket foxed jacket a bit rubbed. 1963 Hard Cover. x 2 146 2 pp. 8vo. King's second book a collection of sermons preaching the value of love and nonviolence and urging the sort of mutual understanding and respect King spoke about during his speeches as a civil right activist. "If there is one book Martin Luther King Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives it is Strength to Love." So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: "I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King Jr.' s philosophy of nonviolence: His belief in a divine loving presence that binds all life. By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping the transcendent moral ethic of love we shall overcome these evils." In these short meditative and sermonic pieces some of them composed in jails and all of them crafted during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights struggle Dr. King articulated and espoused in a deeply personal compelling way his commitment to justice and to the intellectual moral and spiritual conversion that makes his work as much a blueprint today for Christian discipleship as it was then. Individual readers as well as church groups and students will find in this work a challenging yet energizing vision of God and redemptive love. Harper & Row hardcover books
196345296NY: Harper and Row 1963. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Very good hardback in a lightly rubbed and tanned jacket. Unclipped with $3.50 price. <br/><br/> Harper and Row hardcover books
19042299118University of the State of New York 1904. Stapled Binding. Good. Lacks map light small stains small tear to spine head. 1904 Stapled Binding. CONTENTS: Introduction; Formations: Siluric Devonic; Succession of Fossil Faunas; Index; Map. University of the State of New York unknown books
185723238New-York: H. Anstice & Co. Stationers 1857. 1 title 1 blank 5 1 blank pp. Original printed wrappers lightly chipped at corners dustsoiled. Light tanning of text light chipping to corners short closed tear at bottom blank edge of all leaves no text involvement or loss. Good. "The undersigned a committee appointed at a meeting of the Episcopalians in the City of New-York with a view to make more fully known the precise nature and extent the object of their application to the Legislature of the State for the repeal or amendment of the Act of 1814 entitled "An Act to alter the name of the Corporation of Trinity Church in New-York and for other purposes" passed January 25 1814 and to prevent any uncertainty misapphrehension or mis-statement of that object in any quarter hereby make the following statement and declaration." Signed in type March 3 1857 by L. Bradish S. Cambreleng F.S. Winston Stewart Brown Robert B. Minturn John L. Wendell J.E.Cooley William Jay and John David Wolfe. OCLC 5165303 3. H. Anstice & Co.., Stationers unknown books
1983109152Kassel Germany: Universitat Kassel 1983. Softcover. VG. Duotone wraps; Unpaginated 32 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw photos and maps; Map and exhibition poster included. Text in German; Chronicles the photographer's trek on foot from Kassel to Venice. Universitat Kassel paperback books
22170New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam. Near Fine. N.D. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Wraps fine but for "King" penciled on front cover ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 30 pp . Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam paperback books
1949149210Universal City: Universal Pictures 1949. Revised Final Shooting script for the 1950 film here under the working title "Java." Copy belonging to director H. Bruce Humberstone with his name in holograph pencil on the front wrapper and single annotation on page 41. <br/><br/>Loosely based on Tay Garnett's 1940 film "Seven Sinners." A sick steam ship crewman attempts to clear his name while being blackmailed for wartime collaboration with the Japanese. Liberace's first credited film appearance as a cabaret performer named "Maestro."<br/><br/>Set on the fictional Pacific island of Oraka.<br/><br/>Tan textured titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT on the front wrapper dated June 14 1949. Title page present noted as Revised Final Screenplay with credits for screenwriter Oscar Brodney. 123 leaves with last page of text numbered 109. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue yellow pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/15/49 and 7/21/49. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Universal Pictures unknown books
1951WRCLIT54190Columbia MO: Press of the Crippled Turtle 1951. Octavo. Spiral bound printed wrappers. Photograph. A few small marks and bumps to wrappers else very good. First edition. One of only seventy copies set in Caledonia types and printed for private distribution. An organizational handbook for members of the Tabard Inn an organization of faculty and students at Univ. of MO Columbia. The imprint was maintained by Frank Luther Mott and William Manchester is listed among the members. Press of the Crippled Turtle unknown books
192719340Chicago: The Bookfellows 1927. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth over light brown boards with gilt stamped titles. In original light brown slipcase. Slipcase about good plus. Worn at edges and separating at one corner by several inches. Book however remains fine and protected. Bright and clean throughout. 112pp. <br/><br/>From an edition of 285 copies printed on handmade Van Gelder paper. Includes an original pencil-signed etching as frontis one of fifteen different etchings used throughout the edition's copies. Contains a collection of poems printed in the Bookfellows' monthly magazine THE STEP LADDER. A charming collection. The Bookfellows hardcover books
192939698Cedar Rapids Iowa: privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer 1929. Edition limited to 300 copies small 8vo pp. 96; contemporary dark green cloth-backed orange decorative boards gilt-lettered spine shelf wear edges and corners a bit rubbed 2 minor water stains one on each cover very small loss at spine head; bookplate on front pastedown endpaper shadow on opposite page; interior fine. Printed at the Torch Press. <br/><br/> privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer hardcover books
192439750Cedar Rapids Iowa: Privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer 1924. Edition limited to 300 copies small 8vo pp. 43 7 leaves of facsimile plates; original vegetable vellum-backed blue-grey boards a bit soiled top and fore-edges toned interior fine. Printed at the Torch Press. <br/><br/> Privately printed for the friends of Luther Albertus and Elinore Taylor Brewer hardcover books
1860241907New York: James Egbert Printer 321 Pearl Street 1860. First edition. 247 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original cloth. Fine. Bookplate. First edition. 247 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Cowan p. 570; Hill 1535; Wheat Gold Rush 176; Sabin 77485 James Egbert, Printer, 321 Pearl Street unknown books
18605679New York: James Egbert 1860. 1st edition Cowan p. 570; Sabin 77485. Original brown bindstamped cloth w/ gilt spine lettering. Nr Fine spine somewhat dull/bpt of Thomas & Estelle Magee. 247 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/>Per Cowan "The author arrived aat San Francisco in Sept. 1849 and nearly the entire work is devoted to California. His narrations are exceedingly interesting." James Egbert hardcover books
1853WRCAM39439CNew York: Printed for the author by George P. Putnam 1853. 336pp. plus frontispiece map and folding map. Original blindstamped brown cloth spine gilt. Spine extremities and corners lightly worn head of spine somewhat chipped. Pencil ownership inscription on front pastedown. Frontispiece map leaf loosening text block cracked. Preliminaries and text edges tanned throughout dampstaining to upper corners of rear leaves. Good. A scarce work providing a very good picture of army life during the Mexican-American War including accounts of some of the major battles of the war including the Battle of Monterrey and with material on the Texas Rangers. The author's regiment returned home after the Battle of Buena Vista. HOWES G156. SABIN 27330. TUTOROW 3387. GARRETT p.139. HAFERKORN p.45. Printed for the author by George P. Putnam hardcover books
1903113255New York: The Century Co. 1903. Octavo inserted frontispiece with illustration by Albert Sterner title page printed in red and black original decorated brown cloth stamped in gold fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 L-481. A bright near fine copy. #113255 The Century Co. unknown books
1682EPL07Wittenberg 1682. Paperback. Good. Perhaps from the 1682 edition. The first edition of Luthers translation of the Prophets was published in Wittenberg in 1532. This single leaf has two half page contemporary hand-colored woodcuts of the Creation of Eve and the Fall of Man. Some worming and chipping to leaf but contained in custom folder and colors remain bright. Size: 280 x 205mm. <br/><br/> paperback books
1970CAT0103Washington D.C. 1970. 3 pp. stapled mimeograph program for a service commemorating King's birthday at The Washington Cathedral January 15 1970. Stapled together with a 1 pp. letter from Bishop Henry C. Bunton to the Interreligious Committee on Race Relations ICRR notifying members of the event and including a 1 pp. copy of the minutes from the ICRR board meeting on January 7 1970 at which the details were agreed upon and a 1 pp. announcement for the event. Program worn at corners two bent; letters originally folded creases beginning to split. Overall good. The first observance of King's birthday was sponsored by the newly created King Memorial Center in Atlanta in 1969 only eight months after his death. In its "Making of the King Holiday" chronology the Center describes this service as "the model for subsequent annual commemorations of Dr. King's birthday nationwide setting the tone of celebration of Dr. King's life education in his teachings and nonviolent action to carry forward his unfinished work." <br /> <br /> Scarce documentation exists for this event the second observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday following his assassination. The Interreligious Committee on Race Relations ICRR organized the event. The ICRR was established in June 1963 by leaders from Protestant Catholic and Jewish congregations in Washington D.C. One of its first goals was to support the passage of the Civil Rights Act which was then being debated in Congress. Its larger mission was to end racial discrimination particularly in public housing and employment and to foster communication between black and white communities in D.C. <br /> <br /> Few other early commemorations are documented; this mimeographed program and the ICRR meeting minutes reveal the significant evolution of the idea of a public holiday to celebrate King's life. Speakers at The Washington Cathedral included Mayor Walter E. Washington and the civil rights leaders Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy and Bishop Henry C. Bunton. The ceremony also incorporated King's "I Have a Dream" speech. A press release indicates how businesses schools and the D.C. government were already working together to initiate commemorative programs and "follow a liberal leave policy" for employees wishing to take the day off. The characteristic interfaith and interracial community celebrations and "teach-ins" that we know today were already essential components of commemoration for King in 1970. This program took place thirteen years before the federal holiday was finally signed into law. <br /> <br /> 3 pp. stapled mimeograph program for a service commemorating King's birthday at The Washington Cathedral January 15 1970. Stapled together with a 1 pp. letter from Bishop Henry C. Bunton to the Interreligious Committee on Race Relations ICRR notifying members of the event and including a 1 pp. copy of the minutes from the ICRR board meeting on January 7 1970 at which the details were agreed upon and a 1 pp. announcement for the event. Program worn at corners two bent; letters originally folded creases beginning to split. Overall good. unknown books
19672309821Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1967. Soft Cover. Very Good. Ink underlining in volumes one and four. Wrapper edge of volume four chipped. Wrappers of all volumes lightly soiled. 1967 Soft Cover. Four volume set. Selected writings of Martin Luther from 1517-1546. Fortress Press paperback books