The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] HANSBERRY, Lorraine (text); LYON, Danny (photographs)
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Quarto (27.5cm); charcoal grey paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [9],10-127,[1]pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine, small patch of sticker residue to front endpaper, else a clean, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustjacket. Superb documentary photobook on the Civil Rights struggle in the South, with images taken chiefly by SNCC staff photographer Danny Lyon, but also Roy De Carava, Robert Frank, David Heath, Kenneth Thompson, Don Charles, and Norris McNamara. Text supplied by African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, among the last works she would contribute to prior to her death in 1965.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62738
- Title
- The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
- Author
- [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] HANSBERRY, Lorraine (text); LYON, Danny (photographs)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography; African-Americana; Sixties; Civil Rights;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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