Why Wait (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Inscribed by the author "Happy Hiking! Diane "Why wait?!". Fine copy (bottom of rear pages lightly wrinkled).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket placed in mylar for preservation. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition, first printing of Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 178pp. Black cloth spine, gray boards, title stamped in gilt on spine. Slight bow to front cover. First edition statement on copyright page with "D-O," noting a first printing. Solid text block, light rubbing to edges, faint offsetting to endpapers, a very good example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $3.50 price and "0664" code on front flap, and no mention of the Nobel Peace Prize on rear panel. Light shelf wear, with dust remnants and small chips along edges. Three-inch closed tear to front panel, stabilized with archival tissue repair on verso. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper "Best Wishes / Martin Luther King." Housed in a custom black cloth clamshell, with title in gilt on spine. Why We Can't Wait details Martin Luther King Jr.'s prioritization of nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement. He names events like Brown v. Board, the decolonization of Africa, and the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation as reasons 1963 is the beginning of "The Negro Revolution." This book was published the same year King received the Nobel Peace Prize, and simultaneously increased circulation of King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Signed.