Coretta Scott King MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR First Edition
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Coretta Scott King MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., by Coretta Scott King and published by Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London, 1970. Stated "First Printed in Great Britain 1970" on the copyright page.The book is in good condition (Clean black cloth boards with gilt lettering and red block on the spine, gilt facsimile signature of Coretta King on front board which has minor creasing to the spine edges), with slight wear to the photographic dust jacket which is not price clipped (some rubbing/peeling and creasing to edges and corners, more around the spine edges). Dark red endpapers. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is slight foxing to the page ends and slight colour fading to the top page ends.
A powerful memoir from the wife of the famed civil rights leader, of one of the most important figures of late 20th Century history.
"There have been books by and about great men. And women. Through knowing them, we have understood better their moments in history - and perhaps life itself. This book stands out because it gives us both a great man and the great woman who was his wife. But even more significantly, theirs is that most urgent of all moments in history today.
If we could separate the Kings - Martin, Coretta, and the children - from their time and their impact on it, we would have a stirring story of familial love, faith, and courage under the most trying circumstances. But it was their time that gave public expression to their humanity and courage and so made them heroes for all mankind.
This is their incredible story - begun for Martin Luther, Jr., under the warm protection of Daddy King, Minister of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for Coretta in the Alabama backroads where her father's saw mill was burned to the ground and the bus carrying white children to school sped by each morning covering her with dust as she walked.
The thread from these beginnings to the assassin's bullet in Memphis is between the covers of this book - woven through each member of the family and interwoven with those famous and unheralded who surrounded them."
384 pages. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black & white photographs.
SBN: 340 12907 7
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