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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

KING Jr., Martin Luther. Stride Toward Freedom. New York, 1958. First edition, first printing, of Dr. King's first book, an account of the Montgomery bus strike, a superb association copy inscribed by the civil rights leader across the entire front free endpaper to local activists central to the success of the strike, "To: Mr. & Mrs. A. L. Campbell With best wishes and warm Personal Regards. Martin L. King Jr." $32,500.

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INSCRIBED BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

KING Jr., Martin Luther. Strength to Love. New York, Evanston, and London, 1963.

First edition of an especially memorable presentation/association copy, inscribed by Dr. King to a famous operatic singer and former classmate of Coretta Scott King's: "To McHenry Boatwright, whose beautiful voice has satisfied the musical thirst of thousands. Martin Luther King Jr.," in original dust jacket, housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. $19,000.

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"THE ARCH OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE"

KING, Martin Luther, Jr. Role of the Behavioral Scientist. Lancaster, 1968.

First separate printing of Dr. King's provocative and often blunt Address, delivered in September 1967 before an annual convention of the American Psychological Association, declaring "America needs to understand that it is poisoned to its soul by racism" but asserting "I have not lost hope… I can still sing… 'We shall overcome,'" a fine copy. $3800.

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"A GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE HAS COME OUT OF DECADES OF SHADOWS TO FACE NAKED STATE POWER"

KING, Jr., Martin Luther. Burning Truth in the South. Madison, Wisconsin, 1960.

First publication of King's provocative and timely work on student protests and sit-ins across the South, declaring "it is no overstatement to characterize these events as historic.. an integral part of the history which is reshaping the world, replacing a dying order with modern democracy." $1800.

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"NEVER IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAD A GROUP SEIZED THE STREETS, THE SQUARES, THE SACROSANCT BUSINESS THOROUGHFARES AND THE MARBLED HALL OF GOVERNMENT TO PROTEST AND PROCLAIM THE UNENDURABILITY OF THEIR OPPRESSION"

KING Jr., Martin Luther. Why We Can't Wait. New York, Evanston, and London, 1964.

First edition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eloquent and impassioned defense of what he deemed “the Negro revolution." $1250.

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"WE HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW AND POWERFUL WEAPON—NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE"

(RUSTIN, Bayard) KING, Martin Luther. Our Struggle. New York, 1956.

First separate edition of this groundbreaking work authored and issued at a decisive point in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, declaring, "it is essential to defend the right of equality now," issued by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) the same year as featured in the April 1956 issue of Liberation. $1200.

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"THE OPPORTUNITY IS NOT YET LOST… BUT THE CLOCK OF HISTORY IS NEARING THE MIDNIGHT HOUR"

KING, Jr., Martin Luther. Fumbling on the New Frontier. New York, 1962.

First separate printing of Dr. King's provocative analysis of the Kennedy record on civil rights, King's much-anticipated successor to the opening 1961 article in his annual Nation series, with this bold 1962 work invoking Lincoln to declare, "impotence at a moment of kaleidoscopic world change is even worse than error." $1100.

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