New York: The Library Of America, (2003).

First editions, FIRST printings.

"First printing" statement to the copyright pages.

#137 and #138 in The Library Of America series.

These handsomely bound and individually slip-cased anthologies each have a center section of photographs on coated stock black-and-white plates.

A superior collection of influential journalistic essays and reports related to civil rights by authors including Joan Didion, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Wendell Smith, Marlene Nadle, Elizabeth Hardwick, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, Martin Luther King, and etc.

Each volume: Fine, square, fresh, very tight and unread in blue linen with gilt embossed titles and rules to a black panel to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, blue and white patterned end-papers,  with a sewn-in blue silk ribbon marker; each in a fine cream slipcase with gilt embossed titles and borders to the front panel.

Octavos; 996 & 986 pages; chronologies; notes; indexes; plus illustrations; plus ads to the rear.

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