Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 3,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(MALCOLM X.) Haley, Alex. Typed page from the Playboy Magazine interview, with an entire sentence added in ink and signed by Malcolm at the bottom of the page. Single 4to page of typewriter paper; matted and framed with a page from the Playboy Magazine and a photograph of Malcolm X. Np, circa 1963

Additional Details

In discussing South African apartheid, the original text reads: "America preaches freedom and practices slavery . . . Verwood (a South African leader) is an honest white man." Malcolm adds "he at least practices and preaches the same thing." Alex Haley interviewed Malcolm X for Playboy Magazine in 1963. Prior to going to press, Haley sent a copy of the manuscript to Malcolm for his review. This was to become standard practice for Haley during the writing of the Autobiography.