Feb 17, 2022 - Sale 2595

Sale 2595 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
KING, JR., MARTIN LUTHER. Time magazine cover Signed and Inscribed, "Best Wishes," at lower right. The cover, from the February 18, 1957 issue featuring a bust portrait of him positioned above a city bus representing the bus boycott he helped organize the previous year. Latin American Edition. 4to, small areas of loss at upper edge and lower left corner, folds (touching signature but without loss). With the envelope used to send cover to collector. Montgomery, 8 October 1959 [from postmark]

Additional Details

With--Typed letter from King's secretary Maude L.W. Ballou sending the signed Time cover. 1/2 page, 4to, "Dexter Avenue Baptist Church" stationery. Montgomery, 8 October 1959.