[1st ed] Let Me Live (Signed)

Angelo Herndon

Published by Random House, 1937

About this Item

Autobiography of Angelo Herndon (1913-1997), an African-American labor organizer and for a period of time a communist who was convicted for insurrection and sentenced to 18-20 years of hard labor on a Georgia chain gang for attempting to organize workers and for possessing communist literature. Written while he was out on bail, the book was published by Random House in 1937. Herndon was eventually released in the wake of a Supreme Court decision finding the Georgia law an unconstitutional violation of 1st Amendment rights to free speech and assembly. He went on to found the Negro Publication Society in 1942. An important, and scarce, early memoir of the civil rights movement. 8vo, hardcover, 409 pages, missing dust jacket. Signed in green ink on the front free endpaper Fraternally/Angelo Herndon, possibly to a fellow traveler. Rear hinge split. Faint damp staining limited to bottom corner of leaves. Gentle bumping to extremities, with chipping to corners and edges, especially at rear joint and bottom edge. 1/2 open tear to cloth at spine head, 1 closed tear to rear joint. Content otherwise clean and bright. Seller Inventory # ABE-1717512837260

Bibliographic Details

Title: [1st ed] Let Me Live (Signed)

Publisher: Random House

Publication Date: 1937

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition