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Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' with Mother Nature
NY, Harper & Row, (1973).. Part biography, part manifesto, part how-to book by the comedian and civil rights activist. Signed by the author, with his typical "To: you from Dick Gregory." Gregory says that his inspiration for abandoning his omnivorous life came from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s preachings of nonviolence, which Gregory extended to animals, first becoming a vegetarian and then a fruitarian (after which, at 97 pounds, down from 297 pounds, "nonviolence is no longer a tactic, it's a necessity!"). A book that grew out of the civil rights era to become an early entry in the "real food" movement and the movement toward the ethical treatment of animals. Previous owner name in pencil on the half title and a dozen pages marked in pen in the text; slant to spine; very good in a very good, moderately edgeworn dust jacket. Scarce in the first printing (the number line appears in the rear of the book during these years at Harper & Row), and rare signed. [#033341] SOLD

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