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1965rif. 629433Likely London 1965. Unbound. Very Good. Wire photo. Image measuring 7½" x 8" on 8" x 10" paper. Modest creasing and wear very good or better with caption snipe verso and partial agency stamp verso. From the caption: "While sympathizing with the cause of the U.S. Negro many Americans are now adamant sic over a recent Washington investigation that declared Dr. Martin Luther King to have had associations directly and indirectly with over 60 known Communist front organizations. Furthermore following investigation by the F.B.I. it has been found that key Communists in America have inspired many of the recent riots in the South - outbreaks that have it is believed severely harmed the Negro cause. Supporters of Dr. King believe that he revelation is part of a calculated campaign designed to discredit the Negro leader. unknown
1964rif. 629428London: Associated Press 1964. Unbound. Very Good. Wire photo "picture by cable from New York." Measuring approximately 9¼" x 6" on slightly larger paper. A bit of modest creasing about near fine with caption snipe and agency stamp verso. Associated Press) unknown
2007rif. 604691New York: The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Foundation / Viacom 2007. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Measuring 7" x 11". 72pp. Heavily illustrated. Printed wrappers with modest wear near fine. Performers included Aretha Franklin Babyface Carlos Santana Garth Brooks John Legend Ludacris Stevie Wonder Talib Kweli and Wyclef Jean. Presenters included Cedric the Enterteiner Kirk Franklin Magic Johnson Mayor Bloomberg Miss USA Quincy Jones and Whoopi Goldberg. A nicely produced program. The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation / Viacom unknown
1972rif. 417798New 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
1958rif. 86906New 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. 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
1963rif. 89317Boston: Beacon Press 1963. First Edition. First Printing a review copy with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo 21cm; blue paper and cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorative elements embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; vi562pp. Spine ends gently nudged else a clean very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned with some edgewear and creasing to spine ends; Very Good. Transcripts of interviews by Clark an African American psychologist originally produced for Public Television Station WGBH Boston in 1963. With an added Afterword by Henry Morgenthau III. BLOCKSON 3571. 89317. Beacon Press unknown
1968rif. 59760New York: S.i. 1968. First Edition. Bifolium 38cm; pictorial newsprint wrappers; 4pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center else a fresh Fine copy. Memorial issue of The Worker a weekend paper circulated between 1958-1968 after The Daily Worker ceased operations. Released in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination this issue contains an editorial titled "The Dream Is Indestructible" articles on King's aims goals and accomplishments coverage of the outpouring of national grief and concludes with "Dr. King's Legacy: "Fulfill It!" Communists Demand." Uncommon. S.i.] unknown
1970rif. 8922Berkeley: Mark Kent 1970. 3.25x9.25" 14ff including covers. Manuscript calligraphy on opaque pink paper backed in red felt written on rectos only signed by Mark Kent in pencil on final leaf. Stitched Japanese style with pink yarn. Few minor imperfections to wraps else near fine. A lovely rendering of part of King's important "A Man Dies when he Refuses to Stand Up" speech delivered in Selma on March 8 1965 while supporting the striking sanitation workers. This booklet begins with "If a Man Happens to be 36 Years Old." and concludes with ".letting the world know we are determined to be free." This comes from the collection of Phyllis Kavin of Kater-Krafts bindery in Pico-Rivera CA a passionate calligraphy collector. We find a California calligraphy artist Mark Kent having done work for the Berkeley co-op Inkworks producing political posters for Black Panther activism in the 1970s. Perhaps this book is by the same artist. A lovely item. . Mark Kent unknown
2006rif. 47760New York: Simon & Schuster 2006. Very Good /Very Good . New York: Simon & Schuster 2006. First Edition. Signed by Taylor Branch at title page with inscription "For Kojo Nnamdi With thanks for having me on WAMU and with best wishes Taylor Branch Jan 25 2006." Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket over black and gray boards; 1039 pp. Black and white photographs. Unclipped dust jacket lightly creased along edges. Boards with mild shelfwear. Binding is sound; a few smudges to interior else unmarked. A Very Good or better copy of the third volume of Branch's highly praised three-volume history of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement. Branch appeared on Kojo's show on the date of inscription. Simon & Schuster unknown
1828rif. 281672Philadelphia: Kimber und Scharpless 1828. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A Luther Bible with 40 “excellent plates” called for of which 39 appear to be present. Some plates are numbered and some are not but the numbered plates appear to skip from plate 30 to plate 32 though there is no evidence of excision With a separate title page for “Das Neue Testament” and a two blank leaves with elaborate borders of “Familien Register”between the testaments. 932 pages; bound in mottled calf with raised bands and morocco label; lacking the leather clasps. Very Good binding. Kimber und Scharpless unknown
1907rif. 111544Buffalo NY: Corlis Company Publishers 1907 Book. Fair to Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Salesman's Sample Dummy. RARE Salesman's sample dummy. Includes the listed titles by the noted authors. Book has moderate to heavy age/use wear including scuffs and chips to leather and cracked inner hinges. Some pages have inking. . Corlis Company, Publishers hardcover
2018rif. 1352742Anarctic Press 2018. Patreon Variant. Saddle-stitched. VF/NM with minor wear to edges slight stress marks. 1352742. Special Collections. Anarctic Press unknown
rif. 25622This pioneering American horticulturist developed more and better varieties of numerous cultivated plants. Trimmed TNS irregular 5½" X 2" tipped to pristine cream-colored 6" X 3 3/4" autograph album leaf n.p. n.y. Very good. Though strangely trimmed most of the content of this brief note is legible and it reads in part missing portions hazarded in brackets: "Athough I receive thousands on thousands of letters to answer I forward to you today the three Royal walnut trees. I have selected some wonderful ones for you and believe they will fulfill your expectation." Large bold signature. Though place and date aren't indicated this note was received by noted collector Preston Sawyer 1899-1968 California journalist and historical writer a fellow resident of Burbank's city of Santa Rosa California. An interesting example. unknown
1906rif. 686New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1906. Thick quarto. Original blue fine weave cloth with gorgeous all over gilt blocked cover design by Margaret Armstrong consisting of grapes and grape vine on a trellis also used for spine. This model cover design appears in later Putnam titles Morris Tennyson Emerson Rossettis however in those later uses clumsy lettering by another hand was employed as per Gullans. With superb frontispiece photograph of Tennyson by J. M. Cameron. Corners bumped spine with wear at extr. very good. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown
1990rif. MSL10189Heritage House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. Hard cover published by Heritage House in 1990. No dust jacket. Maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering and outline map of Arkansas on front and gilt lettering on spine. Bottom of spine is bent over. Book is in very good condition. Oblong small 8vo 128 pages 1.6 lb.; Oblong Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 128 pages . Heritage House hardcover
rif. 0088562New York: Institute of Public Administration. Hardcover. Very Good . Third edition 1954. Cloth clean unmarked text Very Good copy light discoloration to the covers rubbing or light wear to the edges of the book's covers no dust jacket. Uncommon book. Institute of Public Administration hardcover
1949rif. Print25KW160Department of Botany and Agronomy State College of Washington 1949. Offprint Pamphlet. Good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Good offprint with original paper casing stapled spine writing and stamp on cover minor discoloration spots reprinted from Genetics No 34 pp 26-43 Image Available Upon Request Department of Botany and Agronomy, State College of Washington unknown
1908rif. 11779Baltimore. 1908. Hopkins was a member of the 6th Virginia Cavalry. His memoirs of the Civil War are geared toward the juvenile audience. 2191pp. plus plates. Portrait. Gilt cloth. Very good with the author's printed price slip laid in. NEVINS I p.106. hardcover
1908rif. 105575Press of Fleet-Mcginley Co. Very Good. 1908. Hardcover. Hardcover. 1908. Book is in Very Good Plus condition. Includes map in back. 219 pages. Owners bookplate inscription on front free endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages . Press of Fleet-Mcginley Co. hardcover
rif. 56733JACKSON Luther Porter. Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia 1830-1860. New York: D. Appleton-Century 1942. 1st ed. xix 270 pp. Orig. cloth. Spine lightly sunned else a very good or better copy. Economic history of Free Black labor in Antebellum Virginia. unknown
1948rif. 100401Grolier Incorporated New York 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine like new. No dust jacket issued. 2086 pp. in two volumes. Text is clean white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. These two volumes are described by the authors as: "A new college anthology of American literature with which is integrated a comprehensive historical and critical survey must be designed to meet the needs of students whose perspectives are growing with our complex times." Grolier Incorporated hardcover
rif. 65698KELLY Luther S. "Yellowstone Kelly": The Memoirs of Luther S. Kelly. Edited by M. M. Quaife. New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1926. 1st ed. xiii268pp. Portrait frontis. illus. portraits folding map. orig. cloth non-priceclipped d/j Minor chipping to d/j else very good. Kelly's account of exploring Yellowstone. unknown
1986rif. 53254Atlanta GA: Martin Luther King Jr. Center 1986. wraps. Very good . 56p octavo. A very good copy in staplebound green wraps. Wraps are lightly scuffed and rubbed with minor wear to edges. Scarce only three copies listed in OCLC. Martin Luther King Jr. Center paperback
1963rif. 26202New York: Harper & Brothers 1963 . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo 146 pages two-tone cloth; dj nicked at tops of spine and corners chip at upper right corner of top panel Dr. King's second book a collection of his remarkable sermons. He centers his sermons on the divine laws as mirrored in the Gospels rather than in the incidents which have made him a controversial personality. Called by some the "American Gandhi" Dr. King was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Harper & Brothers hardcover
rif. 131128023Harper & Row 1963-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition second issue with height measuring 8 x 3/16. Stated first edition. Near Fine in Very Good jacket with chip in bottom of front panel clipped back flap. Harper & Row hardcover