London: The Centenary Press, 1940. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with printed paper title label to spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light fading to spine, light wear to cloth at extremities, title label lightly worn. Former owner name to front free endpaper..... More
New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1915. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original olive green cloth stamped in black. Very Good or better with light staining to cloth visible in raking light as well as staining to the bottom corner of the rear cover. Three small areas of abrasion..... More
Philadelphia: Culture Craft for Beth Hephzibah, 1974. First edition. 140, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's yellow illustrated wraps. Good with dampstaining to back wrap, marginal tidemark extending to the last 30 pages or so, light wear. Scarce, no copies located in OCLC. A publication by the leader of a small..... More
Nashville: The Sunday School Publishing Board, 1928. First edition. 158 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with lettering a little rubbed, wear at tips, former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Uncommon. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown (1863-1947) was one..... More
Atlanta, GA: A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1922. First edition. 126 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in black. Staples visible at front and rear inner hinges. Former owner notation to front paste down, crease and wear to front free end paper. Hinge at final page of text is..... More
Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1903. First edition. [iv], 298 pp. Bound in publisher's pebbled blue cloth lettered in gilt; appears to be the more modern-looking of at least two variants. Near Fine with light shelf wear, age-toning to pages. Born in South Carolina to enslaved parents, Jacob Tileston Brown..... More
Detroit, MI: Dept. of Christian Social Relations, Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1958. First edition. The text of King's keynote speech, which he delivered on May 16, 1958 at a Detroit conference entitled "Christ, Church and Race" before an audience of roughly 260 Episcopal priests and laymen. In which, he encourages..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed by Martin Luther King on the front free endpaper. Very Good with owner name effaced and taped over above King's signature, abrasion to front and rear pastedowns. Former ownership stamp and handwritten date to half-title page. In a Very..... More
Mills College, CA: The Eucalyptus Press, 1945. First edition, first printing. Signed by Howard Thurman on the title page. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper board. Near Fine with toning to spine, edges of boards and lightly so to pages, in a Very Good..... More