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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$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$7522.92 + 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.
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.