BRANCH, Taylor.
America in the King Years Trilogy: Parting the Waters 1954-63; Pillar of Fire 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge 1965-68.
First Editions of Taylor Branch's America in the King Years Trilogy; each volume signed by him
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988-2006.
$750.00
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Item Number: RRB-149279
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First editions of the author’s epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement. Octavo, 3 volumes, original publisher's half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Parting the Waters is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the third free endpaper, "For Jack and Alice Bass, Thanks for the hospitality and best wishes always, Taylor Branch Oxford, Miss. Feb. 10, 1989." Pillar of Fire and At Canaan's Edge are both boldly signed by the author on the title pages. Each volume is fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket designs by Robert Anthony and Jackie Seow.
Taylor Branch’s America in the King Years trilogy—comprising Parting the Waters (1988), Pillar of Fire (1998), and At Canaan’s Edge (2006)—is a monumental narrative history chronicling the U.S. civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968 through the life and leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. and his contemporaries. Events detailed in these volumes include the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the 1961 Freedom Rides, the 1963 Birmingham campaign and Children's Crusade, and the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Selma marches, and King’s assassination. Parting the Waters shared the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History with James McPherson's history of the American Civil War, Battle Cry of Freedom. It also won the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, and was a 1989 finalist for the National Book Award in the Non-Fiction category.
America in the King Years Trilogy: Parting the Waters 1954-63; Pillar of Fire 1963-65; At Canaan's Edge 1965-68.
$750.00
In Stock
