Crusade for Justice: Autobiography (Negro American biographies and autobiographies) Tapa dura - 1970

University of Chicago Press. Collectible - Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press 1970. 1st. Hardcover 8vo 434 pgs. Signed and inscribed by editor Duster (Ida Wells' daughter) on front endpaper. Good in a good dust jacket. Light wear to corners and spine ends. Hinge shaken. Hinge just starting a bit at title pg and pg xxx of the intro. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn, chipped and has small edge tears. Jacket spine sunned. (african american studies, african americans, US history, civil rights, biography) Inquire if you need further information.

US: University Of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. Signed and inscribed at first free endpaper by Ida B. Wells' granddaughter Jackie who is the daughter of the editor Alfreda M. Duster. Beautiful bright orange cloth over boards with gilt particulars, publisher's emblem and decorative band to spine. Top corner creased from previously being folded at page xxiii and light soiling to fore edge of second page of photographs; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is lightly soiled with light shelf wear to top edge. Boards are clean and bright with bumping and rubbing to corners and ends of spine Binding cracked at page 256, but still holds; otherwise, binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has light scuffing to covers with creasing, rubbing, chipping and closed tears to edges, corners and ends of spine. Sunning to spine with light soiling and crease down the center. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

CHICAGO, IL: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1970. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. INSCRIBED IN 1970 BY ALFREDA DUSTER, IDA'S DAUGHTER, ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER / FORWORD BY JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN . PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL ORANGE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES. OTHER THAN SOME MODEST FOXING TO THE ENGES OF THE TEXT BLOCK THE BOOK IS FINE AND UNMARKED. D.J. IS LIGHTLY RUBBED AT CORNERS AND VERTICAL FOLDS BUT IS VERY NICE. A TITLE IN THE JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN EDITED SERIES "NEGRO AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES" .