Autobiography Malcolm, Signed (7 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK VERY GOOD+. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET NEAR FINE. 4th Printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Alex Haley, on a special, decorative bookplate. Bookplate appears to have some discoloration but it also could be part of the design. A CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 455 pages. Illustrated with 32 photos. $7.50 price still on dustjacket flap. A handsome, collectible copy! Signed by Author.

First edition of one of TIME Magazine's ten most important nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt in 22 karat gold. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alex Haley on a page bound in. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. In fine condition. Rare and desirable. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X stands as the definitive statement of a movement and a man whose work was never completed but whose message is timeless. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand America.

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET VERY GOOD. 1st Edition Thus. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Alex Haley, on a decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. Dustjacket shows overall light wear but looks nice under new, glossy brodart. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 455 pages. Illustrated with 32 photos. $7.50 price still on dustjacket flap. Author's first book. First printing of this title by Castle Books who states on the copyright page that it was published by arrangements with Grove Press. Printed in the same year and by the same printer as the Grove Press version. It looks exactly like the Grove edition. A scarce, collectible copy! Signed by Author.

First UK edition, signed by Tenzing Norgay on the front free endpaper. Norgay (1914-1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, spent the first half of his life herding yaks. In 1953, he joined Edmund Hillary's expedition to Everest, becoming one of the first two men to stand on the peak. After Everest "focuses on the post-war Tenzing who, encouraged by Prime Minister Nehru, was instrumental in establishing the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling in 1954 to popularize mountaineering as a sport, as well as train sherpas for expeditions. Barnes has succeeded in conveying Tenzing's spontaneous enthusiasm, strength of character, and directness of mind" (Khorana, p. 39). An edition was also published in New Delhi in 1977. Neate T18. Meena Khorana, The Indian Subcontinent in Literature, 1991. Octavo. With 24 plates (8 colour), map in text. Original green boards, spine lettered in silver. With pictorial dust jacket. Recent gift inscription on front pastedown. Couple of marks to boards, top edge foxed; jacket price-clipped, spine sunned: a very good copy indeed in like jacket.

1st. Fine pp184. 15 + b/w plates & 8 + colour plates. Signed by 'Tenzing 2/6/77' on f.e.p. with his address card pasted inside front board. unpc dw.

1st. Fine pp184. 15 + b/w plates & 8 + colour plates. Signed by 'Tenzing 2/6/77' on f.e.p. with his address card pasted inside front board. unusually bright unfaded unpc dw.

Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Second printing of the first edition. A fantastic association copy signed by Alex Haley on the front free endpaper and inscribed to his editor Murray Fisher, "November 1965 / To my dear friend, Murray, whose inherent genuineness kept 'getting to' Malcolm X, until, finally, Malcolm would ask me how was (and eventually, even, he would write letters to) 'That Fisher fellow -' with respect and warmth - [signed] Alex." Fisher was Haley's longtime editor, who helped greatly shape his best-known works, Roots, as well as this title, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Fisher edited several of Haley's interviews for Playboy before leaving the magazine and Chicago in 1974, moving to Los Angeles to help Haley edit his epic, Roots. Haley thanked him in the acknowledgments when the book was published in 1976: "Murray Fisher had been my editor for years at Playboy magazine when I solicited his clinical expertise to help me structure this book from a seeming impassable maze of researched materials. After we had established Roots pattern of chapters, next the story line was developed, which he then shepherded throughout. [.] Finally, in the book's pressurized completion phase, he even drafted some of Roots scenes, and his brilliant editing pen steadily tightened the book's great length." Haley was completely overwhelmed by working on Roots, at one point, he expected the book to be published in three volumes spanning over 1800 pages. Fisher spent six years to organizing and polish the massive amounts of research material Haley gathered for Roots. Fisher came to play such an important role in developing Roots that Haley gave him ten percent of the book's literary rights and five percent of the motion picture rights. According to historian Robert J. Norrell, "Haley wrote the two most influential books in African-American history in the second half of the 20th century," Norrell notes, referring to The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). "Each of his books sold at least six million copies, and the films made from them were viewed and appreciated by the masses of America." 455 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with cloth lightly worn at corners and spine ends, lightly soiled and with light surface wear at the upper board. Contents tanned. Offsetting to endsheets with browning at the rear from a formerly laid in clipping. A very important association copy inscribed to a pivotal figure in Haley's career and who had a hand in the production of this book.