New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; maroon cloth hardcover, titles stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; red top-stain; dustjacket, 454pp. A tight, clean, and unmarked copy, about Fine with the publisher's top-stain deep, even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), crisp and clean with just a mild hint of fading to red on spine panel, very Near Fine.

An exemplary copy of this key non-fiction work, by a Southern white novelist, on the Civil Rights Movement of the Sixties, based on hisinterviews with Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X and many others.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 60113
Title: Who Speaks for the Negro
Author: WARREN, Robert Penn
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1965
Bookseller catalogs: The South; African-Americana; Civil Rights;

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