Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High [Inscribed]

New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige paper-covered boards and burgundy cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,312pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "6/94 / To: Robert / Your energy + determination are a reflection of the Holy Spirit / Best wishes / Melba Beals." Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $22.00), with some sunning to spine. Memoir by one of the "Little Rock Nine," published around the 40th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. "Beals commemorates the milestone decision in this first-person account of her ordeal at the center of the violent confrontation that helped shape the civil rights movement. Beals takes us from the lynch mob that greeted the terrified fifteen-year-old to a celebrity homecoming with her eight compatriots thirty years later, on October 23, 1987, hosted by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton..." (from front flap). 82624. (Inventory #: 82624)