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PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardcover first edition, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 75268More details Price: $100.00 -
PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 73405More details Price: $25.00 -
PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62275More details Price: $30.00 -
PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65.
Edition: Full size book club edition.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60349More details Price: $20.00 -
CONTEMPORARY BLACK LEADERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Written for young adults, this tells the stories of 14 men and women, both militant and "moderate" who have led the fight for full and equal rights - including Malcolm X, Coretta Scott King, Thurgood Marshall, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles Evers, Bayard Rustin and others. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-396-062318.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and in sturdy buckram binding, but overall tight and clean in a good dust jacket (price-clipped, peeled spot on front cover.)
Book ID: 54209More details Price: $12.50 -
CONTEMPORARY BLACK LEADERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Written for young adults, this tells the stories of 14 men and women, both militant and "moderate" who have led the fight for full and equal rights - including Malcolm X, Coretta Scott King, Thurgood Marshall, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles Evers, Bayard Rustin and others. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-396-062318.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings and in sturdy buckram binding, but overall tight and clean in a very good, unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 54208More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SENATOR AND THE SHARECROPPER: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The New Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This sensitive and thoroughly researched study intertwines the life histories of a James Eastland, a rich cotton planter and staunch segregationist Senator and Fannie Lou Hamer, a former sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland home, and became the spirtual leader of the Mississippi civil rights movement. It explores the contradictions found in a county like Sunflower, Mississippi. Illustrated with photographs, notes, index. xvi, 368 pp. ISBN: 1595583327.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45613More details Price: $28.00 -
ONE MORE RIVER TO CROSS. The Stories of Twelve Black Americans.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Scholastic, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twelve short histories of people such as Madam C.J. Walker, Dr. Charles Drew, Fannie Lou Hamer, Romaire Bearden and Shirley Chisholm, written for young adults. ISBN: 0-590-428969.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 5354More details Price: $18.00