Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr [Signed by All Three Contributors]
[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] DURR, Virginia Foster (memoir); TERKEL, Studs (foreword); BARNARD, Hollinger F. (editor)
Published by University of Alabama Press, [Tuscalooosa], 1985
- First Edition
- Signed
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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
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First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-360,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper ("To Sam Pointer / Virginia Foster Durr"), and signed directly beneath by editor Hollinger F. Barnard, and author Studs Terkel, who wrote the foreword. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with a hint of sunning to spine, and some trivial wear to extremities. Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999), a white civil rights activist and lobbyist from Alabama, and a close friend to both Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt. It charts the life of "a woman whose childhood in the early years of the century had frequent visits to her grandmother's plantation, whose social concern became active in old Birmingham during the Great Depression, whose political consciousness was forged in the New Deal days of Washington, D.C., and whose later years were spent in the vanguard of the New South's civil rights struggle" (from front flap). 82642.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr [Signed by All Three Contributors]
- Author
- [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] DURR, Virginia Foster (memoir); TERKEL, Studs (foreword); BARNARD, Hollinger F. (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press, [Tuscalooosa]
- Publication year
- 1985
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Signed
- Signed
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Autographs & Manuscripts, Civil Rights, The South
Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
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We maintain an inventory of more than 50,000 items, including out-of-print and rare books, pamphlets, graphics, and ephemera, most in our specialty areas of Radical Thought and Modern Literature but including a large selection of fine books in all fields. Only a fraction of our inventory is catalogued for on-line sales. We also issue 2 to 4 printed catalogs each year of items in our specialisation. Though we are a private-premises business, our books are priced and organized for browsing. If you would like to visit our showroom, please contact us by e-mail or telephone as far in advance of your anticipated visit as possible. We'll do our best to accommodate you!…
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