signed first edition
1987 · New York
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, Mary
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige paper-covered boards and dark grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-592pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "Max Kennedy / "We'll never turn back" / Mary King." Old splash marks affecting upper half of front pastedown, faint foxing to text edges, though contents are clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $22.95), with light surface wear, some rubbing to extremities, faint foxing on verso, and a few tiny splash marks to front flap; Very Good+. Memoir by King (b.1940), a white civil rights activist drafted into the movement by Ella Baker, recounting her involvement with SNCC, the 1964 murder of three of her fellow workers in Mississippi, and her association with Julian Bond, Marion Barry, Andrew Young, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. 82648. (Inventory #: 82648)