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Why We Can't Wait
by Martin Luther King Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, with touches of fray to corners and very slight bowing to the boards. Minor handling and shelfwear. Ownership inscrip/Very Good jacket, unclipped, with soiling, edgewear, and two small (1") closed tears to rear panel.
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover 8vo, quarter black cloth over gray boards, publishers gilt logo stamped to top board, gilt lettering to spine, [xii] 178 pp. Very Good, with touches of fray to corners and very slight bowing to the boards. Minor handling and shelfwear. Ownership inscription initial from Dorris Funnye, later Doris Innis, who with her husband Roy was a prominent leader and member of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)./Very Good jacket, unclipped, with soiling, edgewear, and two small (1") closed tears to rear panel.. First Edition of Dr. King's fourth book, which grew out of his famous and widely published "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963). King wrote the book to address and capture the momentum of the movement in the previous year, which he saw as a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights struggle.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 625
- Title
- Why We Can't Wait
- Author
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover 8vo, quarter black cloth over gray boards, publishers gilt logo stamped to top board, gilt lettering to spine, [xii] 1
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, with touches of fray to corners and very slight bowing to the boards. Minor handling and shelfwear. Ownership inscrip
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, unclipped, with soiling, edgewear, and two small (1") closed tears to rear panel.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- King, Civil Rights, Peace, Activism, Pacifism
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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