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Stride Toward Freedom
by King Jr., Martin Luther
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Secretarial signature of Martin Luther King Jr. on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.95), generally rubbed, toned and soiled, chips at the head and foot of the spine as well as the rear spine fold. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards, soiled at the edges. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Martin Luther King Jr.'s first book, his account of the Montgomery bus boycott and the subsequent actions in the civil rights movement.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9304
- Title
- Stride Toward Freedom
- Author
- King Jr., Martin Luther
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- History, Civil Rights, American History, Black History, 1960s, Protest, Civil Disobedience
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Glossary
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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