Down The Line: Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin [Inscribed]
- SIGNED
- Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); sandy grey paper-covered boards and brick red cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine and in maroon on front cover; dustjacket; xviii,[4],5-355,[3]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Sandy and Ed, In respect to Kirine and Emily who have help like few others "to let my people go" / Love / Bayard Rustin." Some foxing and dust-soil to backstrip and covers, though clean internally; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $10.00), lightly edgeworn, with a 2.75" closed tear to upper front flap fold, faint evidence of a sticker removed at lower spine, and a hint of sunning to the red titling at upper spine; Very Good+.
Substantial collection of writings by Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), a leading strategist of the Civil Rights Movement, an avowed pacifist, and member of the War Resisters League – the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. The contents span from the early 1940s through 1971, touching on nonviolence, Jim Crow, his experiences on a chain gang, his Montgomery diary, the Civil Rights Movement, various letters, essays, and pamphlets, and his thoughts on prominent figures like Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Inscriptions by Rustin are uncommon, with no examples of this title traced at auction. BLOCKSON 2737.
Substantial collection of writings by Bayard Rustin (1912-1987), a leading strategist of the Civil Rights Movement, an avowed pacifist, and member of the War Resisters League – the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States. The contents span from the early 1940s through 1971, touching on nonviolence, Jim Crow, his experiences on a chain gang, his Montgomery diary, the Civil Rights Movement, various letters, essays, and pamphlets, and his thoughts on prominent figures like Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Inscriptions by Rustin are uncommon, with no examples of this title traced at auction. BLOCKSON 2737.