Martin Luther King's plea from Birmingham Jail
Sold for $150,000 (£109,490), some 10 times the low estimate, was a lot comprising 11 Xeroxed pages that constitute a pre-publication draft of Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ of 1963.
It was offered in an African Americana sale held by Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in New York …