Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Accompanied by copies of two typed letters regarding a September 1978 press conference for the publication of Soul on Fire, from the marketing director of Word Books to executives at ABC.īook fine small closed tear to lower front edge of about-fine dust jacket. With laid-in typed note to recipient Maria Ryan from public relations executive William Liss, with his signature.
Containing 21 pages of black-and-white illustrations. First edition, first printing: with no statement of edition or printings on the copyright page.
Cleaver joined the Republican Party and later battled drug and alcohol addictions before his death in 1998.
as a born-again Christian, he authored and published Soul on Fire, where he writes of his transformation. He came to believe that the socialist and Marxist systems he had witnessed in other countries failed to deliver on their promises" ( New York Times). After moving abroad, "he underwent a mystical conversion to Christianity after an experience in which he said he saw the figure of Jesus Christ on the face of the moon. Right On! Eldridge Cleaver 9/18/78."Įldridge Cleaver broke with the Black Panthers in the early 1970s. $1100.įirst edition of the revolutionary Black Panther's 1978 autobiography, looking back on his life in the decade since Soul on Ice (1968), inscribed by him in the year of publication, "For M-, Who worked hard to set our launching in motion. Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. FIRST EDITION ELDRIDGE CLEAVER'S 1978 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, SOUL ON FIRE, INSCRIBED BY HIM IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATIONĬLEAVER, Eldridge.
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