The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Signed by Congressman John Lewis, the first edition of The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jim Bishop.. Octavo, xii, 516pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, $8.95 retail price on front flap, shelf wear, a few shallow chips to top edge, a near fine example. Signed by the Congressman and Civil Rights advocate John Lewis on the front free endpaper. John Lewis (1940-2020) served in the United States House of Representatives from 1987-2020, representing Georgia's 5th Congressional District. He was a lifelong civil rights activist, helping to organize the March on Washington in 1963, and he led the first of three marches from Selma to Montgomery across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.