Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Daisy Bates. The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir, signed by the author. 8 leaves of illustrations. xv, [3], 234 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minimal wear; lacking front free endpaper; in original unclipped illustrated dust jacket with moderate wear; signed and inscribed on the title page "Best wishes to Kay & Earl Davis, Daisy Bates, March 16, 1963." Color snapshot of the recipients laid in. New York: David McKay, [December 1962]

Additional Details

First edition, second printing. Bates was the NAACP activist behind the successful integration of Little Rock Central High School in 1957 which captivated the nation. With a foreword by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Blockson 3282.