No Greater Love: The James Reeb Story

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. First Edition. First Printing, with "First Edition" and publisher's A-Q code on copyright page. Octavo (22cm); turquoise cloth, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv,242pp, with four pages of inserted halftone plates. Spine ends very gently nudged, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), showing light wear to extremities, and a few tiny tears and faint creases; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Biography of James Joseph Reeb (1927-1965), an American activist and Unitarian Universalist minister who answered Martin Luther King, Jr.s (truncated) call to come to Selma. He was eating at a restaurant there with two other Unitarian Universalist ministers, when he was attacked and beaten by white segregationists; he died of brain injuries two days later. 83746. (Inventory #: 83746)