Robert Mikell (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 276 pages (complete). Wraps worn, creased and marked. Insect damaged- some pages torn by insects, tapped, rust. In fair condition, tightly bound and intact. MK.(if6). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

8Vo Softcover. Condition: Acceptable. 276pp. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with lightly bumped corners. Substantial overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edge and cornerwear, tape repairs, smudging, watermarks; foxing and spotting on inner covers, endpapers and textblock edges, page patina throughout, written name on frontleaf.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wraps are rubbed and marked.Previous ownership stamps.Excellent binding.[R.K](if6). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Publication of 276 pages. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. There are minor marks on the block of the book. The pages are complete and the text is clear. The binding is excellent. R* GK 30/11/2022. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. clean softcover. no marks. clean text. sturdy binding.light age wear. Fast service with confirmation, no international or priority orders over 4lbs.

The author provides a detailed, investigative account of the "civil rights debauchery" in Selma (which he describes as an "invasion") as a response to the "distorted facts and slanted reports" of the media. One chapter is devoted to the "loose morals of its leaders," primarily sexual improprieties by Ralph Abernathy, Jr. and MLK's affiliation with the Highlander Folk School. He covers the freedom march to Montgomery, the murder of Viola Luizza by the Klan (which includes an interview with UKA Grand Dragon Robert Shelton) and the legal case that followed, and concludes with his assessment of the disruptive, law-breaking, and boycotting activities of the demonstrators (with particular disdain for the public interracial sexual improprieties). The descriptions of sex between interracial protestors was the cause of an embargo placed on the book in apartheid South Africa when it was imported there in 1966 ("Embargo on Rights Book Placed By South Africans," The Montgomery Advertiser, Fri, Sep 02, 1966 p. 12). The author was born in Hawaii, but moved to Alabama at a young age. After attending Auburn Univ. he worked for a short time in Florida where he began his writing career. The same year that his Selma account was published, Mikell published his first novel with a vanity press, The Mother Seekers: A Novel of Sexual Futility (1965), which was described as "A close-up of the strange, wild, rebellious world of the hipster-beats." He doesn't appear to have published any other books. Trade paperback, photo-illustrated cover; photo frontispiece of the author, xii, 276 p., which includes 19 pages of photographs at the end. Rubbing and faint foxing to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "A Novel of Sexual Futility". Original full red cloth, title in black to spine and front, no names or writing on end papers or in text. Dust jacket price unclipped ($4.00), showing slight edge wear, no chips or tears. 151 numbered pages, clean and tight in binding. From the dust jacket--- "A close-up of the strange, wild, rebellious world of the hipster-beats.". Huntsville, Alabama Author.