The Autobiography of Malcolm X - compiled by Alex Haley, Fourth Printing, Grove Press 1965

Malcolm X

Published by Grove Press, 1965

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - compiled and with an epilogue by Alex Haley, Fourth Printing, Grove Press 1965

An early printing of the influential autobiography of the revolutionary civil rights leader, and leading spokesman for The Nation of Islam before his disillusionment with the organization. The work was compiled by Alex Haley based on a series of in-depth interviews as discussed in Haley's epilogue and published posthumously nine months after his assassination 

Black cloth, gold lettering to spine, with illustrations, pp. i-xi, xii-xiv, [2], 455, [1] + 16 pages of illustration; VG book with slightly bumped corners, binding slightly cocked, in a VG+ jacket with light edge wear, soil, and a faint crease to head of front panel.

"I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form - I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with hate. He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol of 'hatred' - and that will help him to escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race.". Seller Inventory # ABE-1765312024512

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Autobiography of Malcolm X - compiled by...
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition