Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY KING 222 c    KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. 230 pages. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, minimal wear; faint paperclip impression on front free endpaper; in original pictorial dust jacket with minor wear; Brainard family inked stamps on front pastedown, inscribed on front free endpaper “To: Mrs. Eleanor Brainard, with best wishes and warm regards, Martin L. King Jr.” NewYork: Harper & Brothers, 1958 [3,000/4,000] signed first edition of king ’ s first book , published just three years after his leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott first brought him national attention. It was inscribed to Eleanor Holston Brainard (1903-1996), who had written the children’s anti-war book “Broken Guns.” Blockson 4119. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. LOTS 222 - 240