The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 50 “It’s A Time For Martyrs Now” 48. MALCOLM X and HALEY, Alex. The Autobiography of MalcolmX. New York, 1965. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jacket. $1500. Click for more info First edition of this modern American classic—“a document for our time” (New York Times)—with 16 pages of photographic illustrations, in original dust jacket. Published after a lengthy collaboration with Alex Haley and shortly after Malcolm X’s assassination in February the same year, The Autobiography of Malcolm X was immediately praised as “a brilliant, painful, important book” ( New York Times ). Only faint toning to spine of bright dust jacket. A fine copy. “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”