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Martin Luther King, Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$15.75 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library; library pocket in back. All pages are secure & unmarked. Ink line (border) drawn on front cover. Cover, particularly binding, worn. Back inside cover shows separation at binding. 230 pages.
Seller: GA Division, SCV, Macon, GA, U.S.A.
Martin Luther King Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom, The Montgomery Story. Harper & Row Publishers, 1958.
Price: US$27.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1958. No Edition Remarks. 230 pages. No dust jacket. Blue & black cloth with gilt lettering. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Pages are mildly tanned throughout. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Noticeable brown staining.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Early printing of Dr. King's first book, without jacket; Solid binding; Sturdy blue cloth boards heavily soiled and foxed w/ gilt at spine significantly faded, mild signs of moisture damage; Foxing present at paste-downs/end pages as well as outer edge text-block; Text free of markings.
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
King, Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket. About a dozen pages with highlighting. Edgewear. Later printing of 1958 edition (NOT a first edition). NOT ex-library. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Martin Luther King Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: DJ with wear and chipping to edges, fading to spine. PO applied clear tape to reinforce DJ edges, now protected in archival mylar. Boards and spine intact, bumping to corners. No markings to deckle edged pages. Tanning to pastedown, fly-leaf pages and outside page edges. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
Seller: ABC Books, Springfield, MO, U.S.A.
Martin Luther King, Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom. Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: $2.95 flap on price, March 1960 printing (C-K). Good hardcover in Good- dust jacket. Unclipped DJ is bright but sunned, chipped, rubbed and toned, see photos for exact marks. Two toned boards have spine edge and corner wear else clean and bright. Interior pages very good, no marks, light page toning. see photos.
Seller: Tefka, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Martin Luther King Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom. Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good copy in hardcover with fair jacket. Light shelf-wear. Some off-setting on endpapers. C-K code on copyright page. Jacket has rubbing, fading to spine, chipping at spine ends with larger tear at top of spine. Tear from back, top edge with subsequent crease. Jacket has toning internally. Now in mylar.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
King, Martin Luther Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story D-S. HARPER & ROW, 1958.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good Condition. slighty warped front cover. bottom edge of pages are stamped with a big "64" top edges are stamped " Elkhart Memorial High School Socilal Studies Dept." All pages are clean with no markings. bindings are tight DATE PUBLISHED: 1958 EDITION: 230
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Martin Luther King, Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Harper & Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Harper & Brothers second printing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first book; copyright page with code of "I-H" indicating publication date of September 1958. Please note First Edition is not stated on copyright page. Illustrated with 18 black & white photographs. Dust jacket with price of $2.95 intact and complete. Dust jacket with "No. 8471A" on front flap and "No. 8472A" on rear flap. Rear panel of dust jacket has "No. 5377" imprinted lower left corner. Binding is sound. Text block and end papers are age-tanned. Some spots/stains in book at front end-paper and pages 28-29. NO writing in book. Front hinge is intact but starting at title page spread. The dust jacket is in Fair condition, but is heavily worn, rubbed, sunned and has some soil. The rear panel has a damp-stain tide mark. The front panel is distressed, with loss to bottom edge, some tears and wrinkles. Chips to dust jacket at spine ends. This book is not up to our normal standards of condition, but this is not a normal book, and we offer it for its scarcity as well as its content. This fragile rarity is shipped from Ohio in a box with plenty of padding.
Seller: Schindler-Graf Booksellers, Westlake, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex library book front endpaper removed. DATE PUBLISHED: 1958 EDITION: 230
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
King, Jr., Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Harper and Row, 1958.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Early imprint with the letter code for April, 1968. Fine binding and contents; appears unread. Bound in pale blue cloth with silver titles. The unclipped dust jacket shows shelf wear with light chipping to the edges, a closed tear (1 1/2") and minor fading at the spine, remains Good.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$189.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket, book has three minor flaws only: the former owner's name on the first blank end-paper, a short edge-tear at the top margin of page 79 (the text is fine) and mild rubbing to the corners, the binding is clean, tight and bright and the contents are fine, the jacket has a few short edge-tears, some rubbing to the glossy surface, and the spine-color is a bit faded, the jacket is clean and remains presentable, the front panel photo of King is in nice shape, the original price (2.95) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, illustrated with photos, "The dramatic success of non-violent resistance" ; 230 pages
Seller: Mainly Books, Silverdale, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: General shelf wear, rubbed cover, lightly faded spine, bumped corner, PO's bookplate on fep, and and article pasted on inner board. L-H indicating print date of November 1958 DATE PUBLISHED: 1958 EDITION: L-H 203
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958. Early printing with publisher's I-H code (September 1958) but lacking first edition statement. Signed by Martin Luther King, Sr. and Martin Luther King III without inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo. 230 pp. Photo-illustrated professionally restored dust jacket. Blue and black boards stamped in silver. Price-clipped dust jacket edgeworn; chipped and heavily creased along edges; fading to spine; professional repair with archival paper fill-ins to verso. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good in a Good only dust jacket.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original 1958 print ad for Harper & Brother, Publishers, promoting Martin Luther King's book, STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM, from The New York Times Book Review section. Framed: approximately 7 x 9 inches. Lightly toned and rubbed with a few soft/faint creases, else in fine condition.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 230pp. Octavo [21 cm] 1/4 black cloth with blue paper over boards. Subtle damp staining to the lower extremities of the spine. Endpapers darkened in areas. Present, albeit worn, is the price-clipped dust jacket. The jacket's spine is torn, with the most prominent tear being a loss from the top 1/4 of the jacket's spine at the head and the surrounding area of the front panel. The front panel has an abraded patch, obscuring a portion of the author's name. The lower extremities of the spine and rear panel are lightly moisture stained. A first edition of Martin Luther King's first book. "H-H" code on copyright page. King's classic and very personal account of what began as a bus strike, sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, and ended in a Supreme Court decision and the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance to an American situation. From Stanford University, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute- "In 'Stride Toward Freedom,' King delineates racial conditions in Montgomery before, during, and after the bus boycott. He discuses the origin and significance of the boycott, the roles that residents, civic leaders, and community organizations played in organizing and sustaining the movement, and the reactions of white Montgomery officials and residents. According to King, before the boycott African Americans in Montgomery were victims of segregation and poverty, but after the boycott, when bus desegregation was achieved, they evidenced a new level of self-respect (King, 'Stride Toward Freedom,' p. 28, p. 187). King points out that most African Americans in Montgomery accepted a nonviolent approach because they trusted their leaders when they told them that nonviolence was the essence of active Christianity. "In the chapter 'Pilgrimage to Nonviolence,' King delves into the intellectual influences that lead him to nonviolent philosophy. He discusses the impact made upon his thinking by the works of Thoreau, Marx, Aristotle, Rauschenbusch, and Gandhi. King also outlines his understanding of nonviolence, which seeks to win an opponent to friendship, rather than to humiliate or defeat him (King, 'Stride Toward Freedom,' p. 102)." A moving and culturally significant memoir.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
KING JR., Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$599.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1958 1st/1st MARTIN LUTHER KING JR Stride Toward Freedom Civil Rights Montgomery Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story is an influential work penned by beloved civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In this book, King recounts the pivotal Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, a critical event in the American Civil Rights Movement. This nonviolent protest against racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama, marked Kings emergence as a prominent figure. The book not only chronicles the events but also discusses Kings potent philosophy of nonviolent resistance and his vision for a more equitable and just society. Item number: #41091 Price: $599 KING JR., Martin Luther Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story New York: Harper and Brothers, ©1958. First Edition. First Printing. Details: Collation: Complete o 230 o Several illustrations throughout Edition Note: StatedFirst Edition; H-H. Language: English Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure o Cloth o Includes original dust jacket Size: ~8.25in X 5.5in (21cm x 14cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 41091 Photos available upon request.
Seller: Schilb Antiquarian, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
King, Martin Luther Jr.. STRIDE TOWARD FREEDOM: The Montgomery Story. Harper and Brothers, 1958.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 230 pp. 8vo. Blue finished cloth backed in black, silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt publishers stamp to front board, deckled fore edge, black and white photographs. Ex-parish: First Christian Church, Center Point, Iowa, some very light scuffing to endpapers from bookplate and pouch removal, tips just nudged, exceedingly clean and fresh otherwise. DJ shows some shelf wear and just a bit of loss to extremities. First Printing of Dr. King's first book, and account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the beginnings of the Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement. This copy seems to have gone straight from the bookstore to First Christian Church's library in Center Point, Iowa. It is, for that reason, about the freshest and brightest copy you're likely to see.Before removal, the lending pouch tragically listed no borrowers.
Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
King Jr., Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom. Harper and Row, Publishers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Secretarial signature of Martin Luther King Jr. on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.95), generally rubbed, toned and soiled, chips at the head and foot of the spine as well as the rear spine fold. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards, soiled at the edges. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first book, his account of the Montgomery bus boycott and the subsequent actions in the civil rights movement.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dr. Martin Luther Kingâs first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. 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.''
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, early printing of Dr. Martin Luther Kingâs first book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. 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.''
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Rubbing and edge wear to jacket, including a few tears. Sunning to jacket at spine. Text is clean and unmarked, binding intact. Now quite scarce First Printing ,with the "First Edition" statement and the "H-H" code on copyright page. 8vo, 8 1/4"h x 5 1/2"w.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. First edition. Harper, 1958.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. King, Martin Luther, Jr. Harper. 1958. First edition (stated) and "H-H" code on copyright page. 230p.hardcover no dust jacket, boards are clean with slightly bumped corners/spine ends, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib, owner name/address/purchase date ("9-27-58") penciled on frot endpaper--1500.00
Seller: TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Martin Luther King Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$1850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing with "FIRST EDITION" and the H-H code listed on the copyright page. This book measures approximately 8.25" x 5.75", with 230 numbered pages. Comes with its original dust jacket. Book is in very good condition. Minor edgewear and bumping to the extremities. Foxing to the endsheets. Dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Moderate chipping to the spine ends and flap folds. Jacket flaps are foxed. Red colored areas of jacket are sun-faded. "Stride Toward Freedom" is a historic account of the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott. The book details the conditions of African Americans living in Alabama during the era, and chronicles the events and planning of the boycott and its aftermath. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory# (M3-27).
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Owner stamp of D. Lamar Jacks of the Boston University School of Theology on front fly, slightest foxing on front fly, easily fine in very near fine dust jacket with tiny nicks at the spine ends. The Author's first book, the story of the Montgomery Bus Strike and the ensuing action surrounding it, written when he was 29 years old. In 1951 King began his work on his doctoral studies in systematic theology at the Boston University School of Theology. Jacks was a white historian and scholar from Tennessee who earned a Masters of Sacred Theology at the Boston University School of Theology. A much nicer than usual copy of Dr. King's first book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
King, Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "First Edition" printed on the copyright page. This original dustjacket has the publisher's $2.95 printed price present on the front flap with minor wear to the spine. The book is in excellent condition and is bound in the publisher's cloth. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$4750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed copy by Martin Luther King Jr, Book is first edition I-H printing. Book is in good condition including dust jacket.
Seller: John Chandler Books, Huntington woods, MI, U.S.A.
King, Martin Luther Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$6750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Early but not first printing of Martin Luther King's first book. Illustrated with B&W photographs.Copyright page with "K-L" indicating publication date of October-November 1958, three months after the first edition. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. First-issue dust jacket with "No. 8471A" on front and rear flaps. Dust jacket with price of $2.95 intact and complete. There is a 1/2" closed tear toward the upper right corner of the front of the dust jacket and a bit of chipping to the head and foot of the spine. Blue cloth boards. Tips of boards are very slightly bent with tiny bit of loss at the tip ends. All in all this is a very attractive copy of this high spot in the American Civil Rights Movement signed by its most famous leader. Subtitled "The Montgomery Story," Stride Toward Freedom is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dramatic and inspiring account of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus strike that led to the first successful large-scale application of non-violent resistance to segregation in the United States. This was Dr. King's first book, published when he was only 29 years old, three years after he led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. The book documents significant events of the burgeoning Civil Rights movement and is illustrated with a dozen black and white photographs, including one of Dr. King wearing a prison booking number around his neck, and an iconic photograph of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted. Runs 230pp. Bound in blue cloth boards and black cloth spine with silver lettering. According to Martin Luther King, Stride Toward Freedom, his memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott, is ''the chronicle of 50,000 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'' (King, 9). In early 1957 numerous publishers began encouraging King to write a book about the boycott. By October of that year, he signed a contract with Harper & Brothers that was negotiated by his new literary agents, Joan Daves and Marie Rodell, and began work on the manuscript. In Stride Toward Freedom, King delineates racial conditions in Montgomery before, during, and after the bus boycott. He discusses the origin and significance of the boycott, the roles that residents, civic leaders, and community organizations played in organizing and sustaining the movement, and the reactions of white Montgomery officials and residents. According to King, before the boycott African Americans in Montgomery were victims of segregation and poverty, but after the boycott, when bus desegregation was achieved, they evidenced a new level of self-respect (King, 28; 187). King points out that most African Americans in Montgomery accepted a nonviolent approach because they trusted their leaders when they told them that nonviolence was the essence of active Christianity.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Martin Luther King Jr.. Stride Toward Freedom. New York: Harper & Row, 1958.
Price: US$7540.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed twice in pen: to dust jacket and to title page with "With Best Wishes" included. Early edition. DJ is unclipped, slightly edge-worn. Comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Seller: The Scribe Bookstore, ABAC, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This hardbound First Edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's "Stride Toward Freedom" and is boldly SIGNED by Dr. King on the dust wrapper AND on the Title Page. Comes with a Letter of Authenticity and Certificate of Authenticity for both signatures from Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators LLC. This copy is in Near Fine. Has some toning and some ink pen underlining within, on areas that were especially instructive to the previous owner. 230 pages with B&W photographs. Reg paper edge in excellent condition without tears. The Dust wrapper is in Near Fine with some toning, and edge wear. In a mylar protective cover. As stated, this is the first edition, 21st printing. Harper & Brother Publishing was the original publisher of the book. In 1962, it became Harper & Row (Which this copy is Harper & Row published.) The first, First Edition was published in 1958. The dust wrapper has an ISBN which began in 1966. Thus, this was a later printing with the number line at 21. Dr. King was tragically killed in April of 1968. From the inside front cover of the dust jacket: ""The dramatic success of non-violent resistance" "They strode to freedom-and all over the world but especially in America new hope was born for a peaceful solution to the crisis of desegregation. 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. Describing what it was like to live through one of the great events in current history, Dr. King reveals the spirit of a people who had had enough. It is a suspenseful story related with humility and humor, dotted with anecdotes, and informed with a towering conviction and a sense of history." The existing options for shipping will be refunded after purchase and said shipping option available by seller will be covered by Sigma Books if sold at the asking price listed.
Seller: Sigma Books, Sheridan, WY, U.S.A.
King, Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1958.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. 5-3/4" x 7. Bound in publisher's stiff blue and white wraps with plastic comb-binding. Very Good. Half-title page with publisher's review slip glued to the top edge is detached from the binding. Rusty paperclip to top of one page, sporadic marking (mostly underlining and marginal brackets) throughout. MLK's first book, recounting his nonviolent, successful organizing of the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the Nonviolent Civil Rights Movement.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, early printing of Dr. Martin Luther Kingâs first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes Martin Luther King, Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 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.''
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dr. Martin Luther Kingâs first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing, name to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell. 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.''
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dr. Martin Luther Kingâs first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best Wishes Martin Luther King, Jr." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase. 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.''
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$18000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Dr. Martin Luther Kingâs 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.''
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$245000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed Copy of Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, first edition. Inscribed to A. Philip Randolph. With Randolph's annotations. New York: Harper and Row, 1958. 224 pp. "To my dear Friend A. Philip Randolph. In appreciation of the standards of loyalty, honesty, non-violence, and the will to endure that you have held before all people in the struggle for freedom justice, and democracy.Martin"A remarkable association of two key leaders of the Civil Rights movement, highlighting not only their similarities but also areas of disagreement. It offers important insights into their views at a critical moment in the fight for African-American equality. King's book, with a rich personal inscription, was transformed by Randolph into a sort of dialog between them by his copious annotations, making this volume one of if not the most important King-signed book in existence.Randolph annotated or marked 69 of the volume's 224 pages. He underlined passages he found particularly powerful, and commented in the margins, echoing or amplifying King's words. Randolph has underlined certain passages throughout the book and here and there made marginal notes, in effect creating a conversation with King. In the chapter "The Violence of Desperate Men," for example, Randolph wrote "Southern Senators and Congressmen and politicians, and some religious leaders have created a climate by their violent racist public statements that make racial violence inevitable." Especially in the 35-page final chapter, "Where Do We Go From Here," Randolph has covered numerous pages with notes, ie,: "America's schizophrenic personality on the question of race."Randolph's annotations - excerpts "White Citizen Council intimidated Southern moderates" "Negro worker has a right to expect the trade unions to help him secure economic and political rights" "Prediction of violence is an invitation to action," added to the side of King discussing the effects that leaders' statements have had on unfolding events. (p137) "Use of tragic effects of segregation as argument for its continuation" "Non-violence is a way of humility and self-restraint" "Inflammatory statements of white Southern leaders make for violence" (p192) "Future of USA bound up with how this problem of race is handled and solved" (p197) "A first class nation cannot afford second class citizenship" (p197) "Morals cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated" (p198) "Poor whites suffer poverty while clinging to the myth of racial superiority" (p204) While MLK believed that the end goal must be "redemption and reconciliation," Randolph declared that that ultimately, the "Negro must fight and suffer for his rights."Samples of Underlined Passages Rosa Parks "was not 'planted' there by the NAACP, or any other organization; she was planted there by her personal sense of dignity and self-respect. She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn." (p44) "But the forces of good will failed to come through. The Office of the President was appallingly silent, though just an occasional word from this powerful source, counseling the nation on the moral aspects of integration and the need for complying with the law, might have saved the South from much of its present confusion and terror." and added the annotation, "lack of Presidential leadership in the racial crisis." (p195) "As a result of the failure of the moral forces of the nation to mobilize behind school integration, the forces of defeat were given the chance to organize and crystallize their opposition. While the good people stood silently and complacently by, the misguided people acted." APR added annotation, "Failure of moral forces of the nation to mobilize back of the court decision for desegregation." (p196) "Government action is not the whole answer to the present crisis, but it is an important partial answer.Morals c. (See website for full description)
Seller: Seth Kaller Inc., White Plains, NY, U.S.A.