Description
The first edition of A Way Out Of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young, inscribed to Harry Belafonte, both colleagues and friends of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Octavo, xiii, 172pp, [6]. Brown cloth spine, paper hardcover, title stamped in gilt on spine. The first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page. This copy appears lightly read, free of notable wear. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Harry + Julie / Thanks for your role in this story – Peace + Blessings / Andrew Young.”
Andrew Young (b. 1932) represented Georgia’s 5th Congressional District in Congress, served as President Jimmy Carter’s Ambassador to the United Nations and as the 55th Mayor of Atlanta. He began his career as a pastor in Alabama and eventually became associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He was a colleague and friend of Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to strategize the Civil Rights Campaigns across the South. He was the first African American Ambassador to the United Nations, then Mayor of Atlanta.
(Provenance: Julien’s Auctions, 2025 / Harry Belafonte: A Man of Action, Lot 199.)
