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CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN NEGRO: A Documentary History.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Trident Press, 1968.. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes over 100 documents covering more than 3 centuries, from slavery through the modern fight for civil rights. Among the documents are the Massachusetts Body of Liberites, early protests of the Germantown Mennonites, the constitution of Alabama, the Fugitive Slave Act, Nat Turner's 'confession' , writings by W. E. B. DuBois, Stokely Carmicheal and Martin Luther King, the Gavagan Antilynching bill and much more. 671 pages, including index.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 21475More details Price: $22.00 -
PARTING THE WATERS, AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1954-63.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive guide to the early years of the civil rights movement, meticulously researched. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, index. 1064 pp plus photographic plates. ISBN: 0-671-460978.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped). A massive book, and rather uncommon in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 51188More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
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: 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 -
CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE: Selections from "Unafraid of the Dark", "The Children", "The Ghosts of Medgar Evers", and "Killing of the Dream."
Edition: First thus - a promotional brochure.
New York: Random House, (1998). SIGNED first edition - Includes excerpts from 4 books issued in 1998 "Unafraid of the Dark", "The Children", "The Ghosts of Medgar Evers", and "The Killing Dream." SIGNED by Gerald Posner at the beginning of his contribution, a re-investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 59 pp. ISBN: 0-67677086X.
Condition: Very near fine in black and white stapled wrappers. Uncommon, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 79061More details Price: $21.50 -
BLACK IN SELMA: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the founder of the largest black law firm in Alabama. Born in 1930, he was involved in the struggle for civil rights from the time of the marches in 1965 and afterwards. A picture of an important era, of one man's history, and of the politics of a small southern town. Photographs, map, index. xiii, 432 pp. ISBN: 0-374-114048.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 46803More details Price: $30.00 -
BLACK IN SELMA: The Uncommon Life of J. L. Chestnut, Jr.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990.). First edition - Autobiography of the founder of the largest black law firm in Alabama. Born in 1930, he was involved in the struggle for civil rights from the time of the marches in 1965 and afterwards. A picture of an important era, of one man's history, and of the politics of a small southern town. . xiii, 397 pp. plus 3 pp list of photographs for the final version, but which are not included in this ARC.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57946More details Price: $25.00 -
BANNERS OF COURAGE: The Lives of 14 Heroic Men and Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Platt & Munk, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brief biographical sketches written for older children or young adults. Includes chapters on Amelia Earhart, Winston S. Churchill, Martin Luther King, Richard E. Byrd, Rachel Carson, Chief Joseph, Anne Frank, Jacques Cousteau, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Alvin York, Joan of Arc, Heinrich Schliemann, and Alain Bombard (with this French doctor who proved that man can survive at sea with no supply of food or water, being perhaps the least known of the 14). Each chapter is preceded by a full page drawing by Huntley Brown. Wraparound dustjacket painting by Alan Leiner. 258 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name in pencil, some light wear to top edge of dj, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 32679More details Price: $17.50 -
THE KING OF BABYLON SHALL NOT COME AGAINST YOU.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which is part detective story, part history and part a 'sideshow of the human comedy." It "starts off conventionally enough when journalist Billy Tone shows up in the town of Paradise Springs to investigate a bizarre murder that occurred on the same day [in 1968] that Martin Luther King was assassinated. But poet and novelist George Garrett has something else in mind. That something else turns out to be farce. A rich stew of chaos, comedy, old jokes, and ranting characters, the novel also finds room for a biography of Martin Luther King and a character named Raphael who smokes a corncob pipe, sports a pith helmet, and just might be the angel Raphael." 336 pp. ISBN: 0-151575541.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners bumped)
Book ID: 76383More details Price: $18.00 -
THE KING OF BABYLON SHALL NOT COME AGAINST YOU.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996) dj. Hardcover - A novel which is part detective story, part history and part a 'sideshow of the human comedy." It "starts off conventionally enough when journalist Billy Tone shows up in the town of Paradise Springs to investigate a bizarre murder that occurred on the same day [in 1968] that Martin Luther King was assassinated. But poet and novelist George Garrett has something else in mind. That something else turns out to be farce. A rich stew of chaos, comedy, old jokes, and ranting characters, the novel also finds room for a biography of Martin Luther King and a character named Raphael who smokes a corncob pipe, sports a pith helmet, and just might be the angel Raphael." 336 pp. ISBN: 0-151575541.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76097More details Price: $14.50 -
DREAMER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - An intriguing novel by this National Book Award winning writer - a fictional look at the last years of Martin Luther King's life. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Dustjacket praise from Robert Olen Butler, David Guterson, James McBride among others. ISBN: 0-68481224X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 69928More details Price: $17.50 -
DREAMER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner's, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An intriguing novel by this National Book Award winning writer - a fictional look at the last years of Martin Luther King's life. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Dustjacket praise from Robert Olen Butler, David Guterson, James McBride among others. ISBN: 0-68481224X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 69442More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
"I WON'T LEARN FROM YOU" and Other thoughts on Creative Maladjustment.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The New Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of five essays on education, especially urban public education (and its failures) by this innovative thinker. Foreword by Colin Greer. xvii, 153 pp. ISBN: 156584095X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 67716More details Price: $20.00 -
JESSE JACKSON AND THE POLITICS OF RACE.
Edition: First printing.
Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books Inc., (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather controversial look at the life of Jesse Jackson - As it discusses his contributions to the civil rights movement, and examines his political career, the authors contend that Jackson used race politics to advance his own aspirations for wealth and power. Foreword by Ralph Abernathy. Notes on sources, index. viii, 269 pp. ISBN: 0-915463083.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 76542More details Price: $18.50 -
A DANGEROUS ROAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing African-American private investigator Smokey Dalton - set in Memphis in 1968 where tense racial relations are beginning to build towards danger, as the strike of the sanitation workers enters its third week. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-312262647.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83148More details Price: $20.00 -
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM: Walk Together, Children, Don't You Grow Weary.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book for readers of all ages - one which explores the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960's from the viewpoint of ordinary people who participated in it - and especially the memories of those who marched for freedom as children. Illustrated with many photographs. SIGNED and dated by the author in the year of publication. Large format, notes, bibliography, index. 72 pp. ISBN: 0-670-011894.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45673More details Price: $50.00 -
HELLHOUND ON HIS TRAIL: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Anchor Books, (2011). SIGNED - A non-fiction thriller nominated for the Edgar. "On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel.. . As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funeral, investigators launched a sixty-five day search for Kings assassin that would lead them across two continents." SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a new afterword by Sides, notes, bibliography. 463 pp. ISBN: 978-0307387431.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 74207More details Price: $20.00