Autumn 2020 Catalogue

44 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 Taylor Branch’s Monumental Three-Volume History Of MLK And The Civil Rights Movement, Each Volume Inscribed And Signed By Branch 44. (KING, Martin Luther, Jr.) BRANCH, Taylor. America in the King Years: Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; At Canaan’s Edge. New York, et al. 1988, 1998, 2006. Three volumes. Octavo, original half cloth, dust jackets. $1250. Click for more info First editions of Branch’s landmark three-volume history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights movement, from 1954-68, each volume inscribed and signed by Branch. The first volume in Branch’s groundbreaking work, Parting the Waters , won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. “ America in the King Years , Branch’s running title for the trilogy, is not a mere conceit, a fancy way of describing a biography. It is not a biography of Dr. King. It is a picture of the country and the times as he intersected with them” ( New York Times ). Fine condition. “I Have A Dream” 43. (KING Jr., Martin Luther) (BENNETT Jr., Lerone) SAUNDERS, Doris, ed. The Day They Marched. Chicago, 1963. Tall octavo, original color photographic wrappers. $1200. Click for more info First edition, first printing, issued within weeks of the March on Washington, featuring one of the earliest printings in book form of Dr. King’s epic speech—I Have a Dream—along with a lead essay by renowned African American historian Lerone Bennett, Jr., and more than 100 photographic illustrations including images of Dr. King, Mahalia Jackson, Congressman John Lewis and many more, an exceptional record in original color photographic wrappers of that momentous August day when thousands crossed America for “a call to the national conscience… a rendezvous with history.” Day TheyMarched , published soon after theMarch onWashington, contains one of the earliest printings in book form of Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech, and also features an eloquent essay by African American historian Lerone Bennett Jr., “a leading scholarly voice during the racial ferment of the 1960s” ( New York Times ). Text and illustrations quite fresh, with a few minor paper repairs, small bit of edge-wear, mild soiling to colorful wrappers. A bright near-fine copy.