[Rarebooks] FS: Martin Luther King STRENGTH TO LOVE Inscribed to his children's babysitter

[Charles Agvent]

KING, Martin Luther, Jr. [Martin Luther King, Jr.]. STRENGTH TO LOVE 
Inscribed to a Neighbor and Babysitter for his Children. New York: 
Harper & Row, (1963). First Edition. King's second book and first 
collection of his sermons. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the 
front free endpaper: "To my friend/Rachel Ward/With Best wishes/and warm 
Personal Regards/Martin." Rachel Ward is mentioned by Dexter Scott King, 
son of Martin Luther King, Jr., in his book GROWING UP KING: AN INTIMATE 
MEMOIR when he describes his home life in 1967: "The kitchen is beyond 
the dining room. There my mother or the ladies who helped her, Mrs. 
Dorothy Lockhart or Mrs. Newman or sometimes Mrs. Rachel Ward, caused a 
racket of pots and pans. Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Patricia Cook Latimore 
sometimes looked after us when Mom and Dad had to do important 
business." Dexter was seven years old when his father was killed in 
1968. Genuinely signed books by King are hard to come by; those with 
such a fine association as this are rarely encountered. Very Good in a 
bright, Near Fine dustwrapper with mild wear.            $20,000.00	

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