Bauman Rare Books Early 2020 Online Catalogue

B L A C K H I S T O R Y & L I T E R A T U R E B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S • E A R L Y 2 0 2 0 O N L I N E Signed By Rosa Parks PARKS, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. With Jim Haskins. New York, 1992. Octavo, original half purple cloth, dust jacket. $1600. View on Website First edition, second printing (same year as the first), of Parks’ autobiography, signed and dated in the year of publication. “Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ‘I can take it no longer’” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). “The mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955, and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. Book fine; light edge-wear, mild toning to bright near-fine dust jacket. 23 ©2020 Bauman Rare Books www.baumanrarebooks.com 1-800-97-BAUMAN (1-800-972-2862)